UNWRAP American Sign Language

What is the correct annotation for paragraphs 1 and 2?

• American Sign Language is mostly used by people who are hearing impaired. ASL has four main visual parts that are used to create the language.

• ASL was developed from sign language used at the school founded by Thomas Gallaudet with the help of Laurent Clerc.

• Sign languages are languages that use visual clues to communicate. ASL is mostly used by people who are hearing impaired. American school of deaf was the first school in the US to teach sign language. ASL was developed from sign used at the school.

• ASL was first created and used by Native Americans in different Native groups. who did not speak the same language. They used signing systems to communicate with each other. This then lead to the hearing impaired using sign language to communicate.

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

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What is the correct annotation for paragraphs 3 and 4?

• ASL has four main visual parts. Other visual clues can depend on a persons expression, posture, or gesture.

• A person's expression, posture, and gesture affect a signs meaning. Depending on how a person moves there body will determine what they are signing.

• The shape made by the hands, the speed movement of the hands or body, the place where the sign is made, and the direction the hands face are the four main visual parts that create signs.

• ASL has four main visual parts.

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

What is the correct answer to question 2?

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What is the correct annotation for paragraph 5?

• Finger spelling is used for proper names and words borrowed from other languages.

• ASL cannot be translated word for word. Finger spelling is used for proper names and words borrowed from other languages.

• One English word may be represented by a series of signs in ASL. Several English words may be represented by one ASL sign.

• Finger spelling is done with a set of hand shapes that stand for letters in the alphabet.

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CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.7.5

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What is the answer to question 4?

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CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.7.5

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What is the correct answer to question 6?

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