Review:
Signifying of male and female in ASL is most often associated with areas on your head/face. In the last lesson, you saw the video of the Sons of Alma and Mosiah. The sign for son starts at the top of the head. The sign Father starts at the top of the face. This is the area you sign many other male oriented signs like Uncle, Cousin (male), grandfather, boy, etc. The signs for female are at the bottom of the face. Mother, Daughter, Aunt, cousin (female), grandmother, girl, etc. This is a sort of “rule” for male and female signifying signs.
ACTIVITY 1:
The Family: A Proclamation to the world:
Let’s watch Paragraph two that talks about male and female.
The Family Proclamation (churchofjesuschrist.org)
Start at 1:10 (it says “Paragraph 2” on the bottom left of the screen)
Signing mother – is signed using the #5 sign on your chin
Signing father – is signed using the #5 sign on your forehead
Signing parents – parents is signed as mother and father in a fluid motion
Signing men – men is signed as father and the same #5 sign on your chest in a fluid motion
Signing women – women is signed as mother and the same #5 sign on your chest in a fluid motion
Daughter
Son
Sister
Brother
Grandmother
Grandfather
Aunt
Uncle
Family
When ASL refers to ‘mankind’ or ‘people’ or ‘humans’, the sign is almost always “people” because the CONCEPT (remember that term from lesson 1) is about people. The sign for person is important in the context that every occupation is referred to by giving the action/focus of the job/career and ending with the person sign. Thus a teacher would be a “teach person.” A student would be a “Learn” person.
Home Teacher: https://broadcast-portal.lds.org/asl/dictionary/2013-11-2270-home-teacher-1500k-ase.mp4
Homework:
Unit 10, Talking about Family and Occupation
Home Study (for Next week):
GROUPS of people are often referred to in a GROUP sign. The sign for group is used with the C sign making a circle with both your hands. You can also use the G sign.
https://www.signingsavvy.com/sign/GROUP/1432/1
https://www.signingsavvy.com/sign/group/1432/2
Some signs you can just use the first letter of the word WITH the group sign:
For specific groups, you do the sign for the root word and then the group sign.
Bishopric: https://broadcast-portal.lds.org/asl/dictionary/2013-11-570-bishopric-1500k-ase.mp4
Elders Quorum: https://broadcast-portal.lds.org/asl/dictionary/2013-11-1420-elders-quorum-1500k-ase.mp4
There are signs for ethnicities and specific groups of people that don’t use the GROUP sign but if you are referring to the people, to be clear, you want to use the “group” sign with it, for one specific person, you’d use the people sign:
A San Antonian would be San Antonio followed by the people sign: https://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/s/san-antonio.htm#:~:text=American%20Sign%20Language%3A%20%22San%20Antonio,(down%20near%20the%20chin).
Mexican is also the sign for Mexico: https://www.signingsavvy.com/sign/mexican/5100/1
I were telling a story about the Alamo, I’d use the sign for Mexican / Group and Texas / Group to talk about the two armies.
These signs refer to GROUPS OF PEOPLE. If you are referring to people in an area, you use the PEOPLE Sign followed by AREA sign.
AREA: https://www.handspeak.com/word/3180/
Houston Community College Deaf Education Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@MasterASL1234/videos
A Deaf In The Family 