Portland Community College

Deaf Studies Curriculum Supplement

ASL Levels 1 - 6

RESOURCE MATERIALS LIST (COLOR CODED):

RED: YouTube / Vimeo: YT
BLUE: Books
GREEN: Art
ORANGE: Articles / Blogs / Vlogs
PURPLE: Films
Required Textbook: Signing Naturally
Resource Textbooks (provided):
-Deaf Culture, Our Way
-For Hearing People Only
-Through Deaf Eyes
-The Deaf Community In America
-Intro to American Deaf Culture
-Deaf World
-A Journey Into The DEAF-World
-Deaf In America

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(Listed as SN in curriculum)

(Listed as DCOW in curriculum)

(Listed as FHPO in curriculum)
(Listed as TDE in curriculum)
(Listed as TDCA in curriculum)
(Listed as IADC in curriculum)
(Listed as DW in curriculum)
(Listed as JIDW in curriculum)
(Listed as DIA in curriculum)

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WEEK 1

Greetings

RESOURCES
FHPO: Ch. 1, 6-8, 117

WEEK 2

Ways of communicating with Deaf

FHPO: Ch. 106

WEEK 3

Getting signers attention

WEEK 4

Creating a signing environment

FHPO: Ch. 121

Sign Genius tips
FHPO: Ch. 107

WEEK 5
WEEK 6

Cultural Norms: Conversations & signing

vs. speaking
Introduction to Deaf Culture

WEEK 7

History: How ASL came to America

DCOW: Classic Hazards

FHPO: Ch. 21-24, 32, 35, 36
DCOW: Our Unique Ways
FHPO: Ch. 9, 55, 56
FHPO: Ch. 4, 5

WEEK 8

Deaf sports

WEEK 9

Deaf artist figures

WEEK 10

Frank Talk: Physical features

DW: Ch. 42
YT: Sports Illustrated Underdogs:
California School for the Deaf
Blog: https://
handeyes.wordpress.com/
FHPO: Ch. 111

WEEK 11

1 10 stories

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YT: Evelina Gaina, ASL Number/ABC Story

Backwards "Vampire & Werewolf"

WEEK 12

Audism

Video: Audism Unveiled

WEEK 13

Gallaudet University

WEEK 14

ASL Interpreters: What they do

WEEK 15

What happens at Deaf parties

YT: Terrylene1 Gallaudets Favorite

Poem!
YT: Gallaudetfilm Gallaudet: The Film
Art: Matt Daigle, Extreme
Interpreting
Art: Nancy Rourke, CODA Waits

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WEEK 1

Review: Signing Environment

RESOURCES
IADC: Ch. 10

WEEK 2

Review: Deaf Culture

TDCA: Ch. 5

WEEK 3

Deaf performing arts: Theatre

TDCA: Ch. 7

WEEK 4

Deaf films

FHPO: Ch. 63

WEEK 5

Deaf Poetry

WEEK 6

ABC stories

Supala & Bahan - Bird of a Different

Feather
Peter Cook DVDs

WEEK 7

Storytelling: The Diamond approach

WEEK 8

Deaf Education: Key Figures

DCOW: Classic Humor

DW: Ch. 13
TDCA: Ch. 3

WEEK 9

Little d and big D definitiions

DW: Ch. 49

WEEK 10

Communication modalities: An overview

FHPO: Ch. 16-19

WEEK 11

Medical view on Deafness

WEEK 12

Cultural view on Deafness

JIDW: Ch. 11
Art: Matt Daigle, Im Sooo Sorry
IADC: Ch. 5

WEEK 13

A history of Deafness and driving

WEEK 14

Residential schools for the Deafs origins

FHPO: Ch. 71-73

Article: http://hubpages.com/hub/
Deaf-People-Drive
TDCA: Ch. 2

WEEK 15

Protests: An overview and key figures

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DW: Ch. 48
YT: dcmpnad Deaf Mosaic #402
FHPO: Ch. 102
YT: Raychelle Harris, My Black Friday
Arrest (part 1 & 2)

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RESOURCES

WEEK 1

Review: Deaf Culture

IADC: Ch. 3

WEEK 2

Reasons why being Deaf is awesome

DCOW: Blessings of Being Deaf

WEEK 3

ASL literature: Visual Vernacular

WEEK 4

ASL Literature: Personification

WEEK 5

ASL Literature: Poetry

FHPO: Ch. 62
DW: Ch. 20
Bernard Bragg
ASL Works of Poetry: Selected Works
of Clayton Valli
ASL Works of Poetry: Selected Works
of Clayton Valli
YT: Revive ASL Literature Reviving
ASL Literature
FHPO: Ch. 64, 65

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Deafness and music

WEEK 7

Storytelling devices and strategies

WEEK 8

Technologys impact on Deaf culture and

community

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YT: Dack Virnig Snowman

YT: Austin Andrews Deaf Ninja
YT: Ian Sanborn Caterpillar
DCOW: New Technology: New Ways &
New Hazards
DCOW: Not So New Technology: Still a
Hazard Today
FHPO: Ch. 60
TDCA: Ch. 8
YT: ASLanguage ASL The Forest
DW: Ch. 44, 47

WEEK 10

Cochlear implants: Deaf vs. hearing

perspectives
What CODAs are, and what its like to be one

WEEK 11

Discrimination: A cross-cultural overview

DCOW: Hearing People With Deaf

Parents
FHPO: Ch. 61, 82-84

WEEK 12

Oppression: A cross cultural overview

IADC: Ch. 13

WEEK 9

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WEEK 13

TOPIC
DeVia Defining a movement

WEEK 14
WEEK 15

RESOURCES

Creating Allies

IADC: Ch. 9
Art: Chuck Baird, Double 9 Lives
FHPO: Ch. 15

ASL interpreters: Ethical considerations

FHPO: Ch. 91, 92, 94, 95

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RESOURCES

WEEK 1

Review: Deaf Culture

WEEK 2

Deaf Inventors

WEEK 3

Frank talk: Personal information

WEEK 4

Why Deaf parents want deaf children

Local Deaf organizations: How to get

involved

WEEK 6

Cochlear Implants: A continued Discussion

Discrimination among Deaf

WEEK 8

Oppression among Deaf

WEEK 9

Deaf performing arts: Challenges

WEEK 10

Deaf films: A critical view

WEEK 11

Milan 1880 Conference

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Black Sand
Versa Effect
Gerald
Foxy Brown (Black Film)
FHPO: Ch. 57
Art: Mary Thornley, Milan, Italy

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WEEK 7

TDCA: Ch. 4
YT: TVSBSC Journey into the Deaf World:
ASL version with captions (no slides) by
Ben Jarashow
Paper by Jennifer Nasukiewicz at:
https://my.gallaudet.edu/bbcswebdav/
institution/ASLCurr/ASL-L1-curriculum/
8th-Grade/Deaf-Inventors.pdf
FHPO: Ch. 113, 123
SN L2: p. 95-96
YT: Ella Mae Lentz, To A Hearing
Mother
DW: Ch. 9
(Educator provided, based on
location); For example in the Portland/
Vancouver area: www.vad.org
(Vancouver Association of the Deaf)
YT: The Daphooe, My opinion on
cochlear implants / Mon opinion sur
l'implant cochlaire (LSQ) Subtitle FR/EN
Art: Leon Lim, Killing My Deafness
IADC: Ch. 12
Kara Walker, Black artist
FHPO: Ch. 85, 128
Kara Walker, Black artist
DW: Ch. 8

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WEEK 12

Deaf Education: Oralism

WEEK 13

Deaf Education: Bilingualism

WEEK 14

Communication modalities: Impacts on

community and culture
Comparing Deafness to other minorities

DW: Ch. 22
Art: Betty Miller, Ameslan
Prohibited
DW: Ch. 31
JIDW: Ch. 8
Pointy Three By Adam Stone
JIDW: Ch. 10

DW: Ch. 14, 46

Art: Susan Dupor, Family Dog
Movie: Precious Knowledge

WEEK 15

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RESOURCES

WEEK 1

Review: Deaf culture

WEEK 2

Deaf clubs

WEEK 3

Deaf identity spectrum

WEEK 4

Communication modalities: Impacts on

Deaf Identity
Biculturalism

Residential schools for the Deaf: Legal

challenges
Residential schools for the Deaf:
Current trends

WEEK 5

WEEK 6

DIA: Ch. 1
Vimeo: Anne Tomasetti &
Alexandria Wailes 2-5-8 News
JIDW: Ch. 1

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IADC: Ch. 14
JIDW: Ch. 10
Vlog: Eric Babb at: http://
ericbabb.blogspot.com/
DW: Ch. 27

WEEK 9

Deafhood: An introduction

FHPO: Ch. 28, 29

DW: Ch. 29
YT: Josh Beckman Deaf Schools
DW: Ch. 50
JIDW: Ch. 12
Art: Susan Dupor, F-I-X, The New
Eugenics
IADC: Ch. 4

WEEK 10

Deaf employment: A historical view

FHPO: Ch. 77, 78

WEEK 11

Deaf employment: Current challenges and

trends

FHPO: Ch. 103

DW: Ch. 40

WEEK 7

WEEK 8

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Medical approaches on eradication of

Deafness

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FHPO: Ch. 40, 51-53

Art: Ann Silver Deaf Identity
Crayons Then & Now
DW: Ch. 28, 30, 53

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RESOURCES

National Deaf organizations: An overview

WEEK 13

Criminal justice

WEEK 14

Cochlear implants & language acquisition

WEEK 15

The Deaf-Heart phenomenon

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National Association for the Deaf

(www.nad.org
World Federation For the Deaf
www.wfd.org
FHPO: Ch. 89
DCOW: Hearing Parents of Deaf
Children
FHPO: Ch. 43, 45
FHPO: Ch. 44
DIA: Ch. 6

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Review: DeafHood

WEEK 2

International Deaf community

WEEK 3

Black and Deaf

FHPO: Ch. 38, 58

Art: David Call DeafHood Unleashed
FHPO: Ch. 2
Article: Carolyn McCaskill-Emerson,
Multicultural Minority Issues in Deaf Studies
DW: Ch. 12, 26

WEEK 4

Native American / Hispanic Deaf

WEEK 5

Racism in the Deaf community

DW: Ch. 18, 52

www.deafnative.com
DW: Ch. 43

WEEK 6

Deaf and LGBT

WEEK 7

Deaf and Disabled

WEEK 8

Deaf Women

WEEK 9

Deaf belief systems / religions

WEEK 10

Deaf Researchers

WEEK 11

ILY sign allergies

WEEK 12
WEEK 13

Framing and the media: a powerful

dynamic
Deaf entrepreneurship

WEEK 14

Preserving the Deaf world

WEEK 15

Being Agents Of Change As Allies

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Article: Hank Stack, Gay and Deaf

Article: MJ Bienvenu Queer As Deaf:
Intersections
IADC: Ch. 14

DW: Ch. 51

DW: Ch. 3

TDCA: Ch. 6
DIA: Ch 5.
FHPO: Ch. 13
DW: Ch. 17
DW: Ch. 4, 5, 39

FHPO: Ch. 81
TDCA: Ch. 9
DIA: Ch. 4
DW: Ch. 10
JIDW: Ch. 15
Art: Nancy Rourke, ASL Pride
DW: Ch. 6, 45