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?

 

 

 

 

 

Progress Report:

To continue my 20% project and learning sign language...since I learned the alphabet already, I started to learn words. I am learning how to do words in the categories of food, temperature, family, clothing, and just basic words like tall, short, what, when, and etc. Some difficulties I have is to learn foods, like pizza is really hard and difficult because instead of one hand motion it has three, so it makes it more difficult. The easiest category for me to learn was family, because it's many of the same motions for example like father and grandfather. My goal for this project is to be able to go to another school with a kid that does fluent sign language and talk to them in sign language and maybe even read them a book in sign language. Hopefully I will be able to achieve this goal!

American Sign Language Alphabet!

 

20% TIme Project

Sign Language!

For my language class we have to do a 20% project. The 20% project is to learn something new and learn something that we are passionate about. We will learning our passion more every Friday for one hour and thirty minutes. I choose to learn how to do sign language. I've always thought it would be super cool to learn how to do sign language, and now I get the chance to learn sign language! First off I'm going to learn the alphabet and then gradually learn words and sentences. Hopefully I will be able to learn sign language!