Progress Report:

I have been continuing to learn various sentences. I really haven't had time to practice so the only sentence I have learned is "What's your favorite color?" and I am learning how to do colors and numbers. Maybe soon I can have a conversation with someone who speaks sign language!

Progress report

Lately I have been learning how to do sentences. I learned how to do "What's your name?", "How are you?" and "How old are you?", and I will continue to learn various sentences.  Now I'm learning how to do numbers, which is very different from what you think it would be. A really helpful person that does YouTube videos on sign language is kateemaria. I think I have improved a lot from when I first started!

Progress Report:

To continue my 20% time and learning sign language I have continued to become more fluent. I have been having some difficulties trying to remember the signs for the more complex words, but I have been learning how to put simpler worlds into sentences and hopefully soon I can learn how to put more complex words into sentences. I really hope that I can fulfill my goal to be able to have a fluent conversation with someone who only speaks sign language by the end of May.

Progress Report

To continue my 20% Time Project and learning sign language, I have started to learn how to put basic words in to sentences. Like for instant, take how and you, and make the sentence "How are you?". Interesting fact is sign language doesn't have a sign for are. A really helpful and good YouTube video to help you learn more basic words, and be able to put them in sentences is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8WIr61r1Do. I think I have made good time in learning sign language and I have got more fluent than before, but not so close to being fluent enough to talk to someone who only speaks sign language. Hopefully by the end of this school year, I will be able to have a fluent conversation in sign language.    

Progress Report

To continue my 20% Time project and learning sign language, I have continued to learn more basic words. In my last post, I linked a YouTube video by Bill Vicars, another great video that will help you learn sign language quick is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9cFqNYlV1A. Bill's videos have really helped me learn sign language, because he actually is deaf and uses sign language, and makes it really easy and quick to learn. My difficulty right now doing this 20% Time Project is I don't have anytime to practice and get better at home, but I'm going to try and make time so I can learn quicker and faster, and achieve my goal of speaking fluent sign language,and to be able to talk to someone who only speaks sign language, and have a conversation with them.

Progress Report:

To continue my 20% time and learning sign language, I started to continue learning simple words. Especially in the categories of family, food, temperature, and etc. Currently I am trying to focus on learning in the category of family.. if you would like to learn sign language, this video if very useful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ianCxd71xIo. The web link will send you to you tube to watch a video on "100 Basic Signs" by Bill Viscar. This video has really helped me a lot and inspired me to learn sign language faster.

 

20% Time Project Proposal

          20% Time Project Proposal

 

Name: Rebecca Bauer

Project Title: Sign language

Project Start Date: November 7th

Project Completion Date: May 15th

Mentor’s Name: Mrs. Browning

Brief Description: For my 20% Time Project I decided to learn my passion, which is sign language. I will try to learn fluent sign language.

 

Overview of Project Proposal

 

1) Project Objective:  My project objectives are to learn fluent objectives and be able to have a conversation with someone who only speaks sign language and to be able to understand them.

 

2) Project Rationale: The reason I choose to learn how to do sign language was because I always thought it was super cool to learn sign language and not have to speak but actually talk to each other.

 

3) Project Steps:

·         Research my project

·         Research how to do the alphabet in sign language

·         Learn the alphabet

·         Research how to do simple words in sign language (ex: brother)

·         Learn simple words

·         Learn harder words

·         Research how to do sentences (ex: my dog ate my homework.)

·         Go to a different school with someone who speaks sign language and have a conversation with them

·         Go to a different school with someone who speaks sign language and read them a book

 

 4) Timeline of Activities:

·         November- Research sign language, learn the alphabet in sign language, and start learning how to do simple words in sign language

·         December- Continue learning how to do simple words, and start learning harder words

·         January- Continue learning harder words, and start learning various sentences

·         February- Continue learning various sentences

·         March- Start learning more complex sentences

·         April- Continue learning more complex sentences

·         May- Go to a different school and have a fluent conversation with someone who only speaks language

 

 

5) Available Human and Material Resources: Available humans are Mrs. Browning, Tammy Bauer and available materials are my computer

 

6) Possible Road Blocks: Some possible errors that I might run into with learning how to do sign language is not getting the right information on how to do a word or phrase, not learning quick enough, not understanding how to do a word or phrase, no help on how to do a word or phrase right, and at the end of the year not being able to do fluent sign language with a person that only speaks sign language. 

 

7) Research Questions: 

1.      How will sign language benefit me?

2.      How long do you think it will take me to learn sign language?

3.      On a scale from 1-10 how fluent will I be at sign language?

4.      How long could I keep a conversation with someone who only speaks sign language?