Class meets once a week for 2 hrs.

This is a fun way to earn your dual foreign language credit .  Even 7th graders can use this fun curriculum as high school foreign language credit.  This curriculum is used by most high schools and accredited universities, so one can earn dual college credit - credit by examination.  No previous signing needed.  Learn by classroom instruction, role-playing, DVDs, games, & field trips. 

Course Objectives:
* Learn how to carry everyday conversations with a Deaf person
* Understand basic ASL grammatical rules (facial expressions, body language, body shifting/direct address, listing, eye gaze, classifiers, and gesturing)
* Develop 'sign to voice' interpreting skills
* Develop an awareness of Deaf culture values
* Sign songs translated to ASL
(By January, the students will be able to converse 2 hours without talking. They'll learn approximately
600 signs during the year.)

Texts:
Signing Naturally I workbook & DVD (or DVD)
For Hearing People Only 3rd Edition (Deaf culture text)
(The materials are not at the homeschool stores.  The teacher will contact the publisher directly – Cost for workbook, DVD or DVD, & Deaf culture text = $100.  Only one per family needed.)

Requires 2-2½ hours studying per week

Class meets once a week for 2 hrs.
Prerequisite:  ASL I or teacher approval.

Most Texas colleges require 2 yrs. of a foreign language for admission.   In this class, the students will continue developing their receptive and expressive conversational signing skills, along with learning some basic interpreting skills.  Learn by classroom instruction, role-playing, DVDs, games & field trips.  

Course Objectives:
* Increase conversational vocabulary
* Learn how to translate English sentences to ASL
* Incorporate more non-manual behaviors, classifiers, and gesturing in their signing
* Continue their awareness of Deaf culture values
* Develop 'voice to sign' interpreting skills
* Translate a song into ASL

Texts:
Signing Naturally II workbook & DVD (or DVD)
For Hearing People Only   3rd Edition
(The materials are not at the home school stores.  The teacher will contact the publisher directly – Cost for workbook and DVD or DVD = $75.  Only one per family needed.)

Requires 2-2½ hours studying per week.

Class meets once a week for 1 hr.

This is a fun introductory course for those students who would like to learn some basic conversational sentences, along with gaining a foundation for the language itself.  The students will learn through games, role playing, signing to songs, skits, field trips, and DVDs.  No previous signing needed to take this course.

Course Objectives
* Learn some basic conversational & religious sentences
* Improve effective communication through facial expressions, body movement, gesturing, body shifting/direct address, listing, and  ASL sentence structure
* Develop fingerspelling skills
* Sign songs translated into ASL
(They'll learn approximately 250 signs during the year.)
Texts:
None (Teacher will provide teacher made worksheets)

ASL II
(Second child and/or parent can take the class for $45 month or $200 each semester if paid in Full by the first day of each semester.)

Intro. to ASL
(Second child and/or parent can take the class for $25 month or $110 each semester if paid in Full by the first day of each semester.)