1.4 ASL Genius Hour

    Hello and welcome back to my blog! This week I learned sentence structure in ASL. Honestly I'm very surprised at how simple sentence structure really is in ASL. Here's an example of a common sentence and its structure in ASL. "My brother walks home everyday" in ASL is Everyday my brother walks home. The reason for this is that American Sign Language has a general format used for sentences. It goes like this: Time + Topic + Comment. I had to learn some time vocabulary to be able to make some sentences. What I mean by time is not three thirty or 5 o'clock. The words I learned are week,everyday, the days of the week, weekend, today, tomorrow and yesterday. 

    This week made me realize that  I want to revise my schedule. Next I think I'm going to learn numbers in in ASL, because I will most likely need them when working with children. I'm very pleased with how this project is coming along so far, but there is still work to be done! Thanks for reading my blog !

(I put a nice little visual below of sentence organization below :)






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  1. Ilyssa AvitabileOctober 26, 2020 at 12:00 PM

    Very nice job Jentry! I like how you talk about what you learned this week and you went into detail about it. I also like how you included that you want to revise your schedule, however what made you come to this conclusion? When you say working with children, do you plan for this to be apart of your genius hour project or are you just saying it? Overall, I am very excited to see how your ASL improves over time!

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  2. AnonymousOctober 26, 2020 at 6:58 PM

    Good Evening, this is Justin! Jentry, do you plan on finding someone who can use sign language and practice with that person? This is very cool that your learning this because their are many people who need this! Keep it up!

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  3. Cade BollingerOctober 28, 2020 at 12:25 PM

    I like how you have an actual plan and use for your genius hour in the future. Keep up the good work!

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