Tips on signing Q & A for Pre-Unit of Signing Naturally Units 7–12
Channel: Daniel Greene
Date: 2021-01-19

I recorded this as a video lecture for the very beginning of an online ASL102 course. Signing Naturally Units 7–12 Teacher's Edition (authors Ella Mae Lentz, Ken Mikos, & Cherie Smith) comes with question cards for what they call their "Pre-Unit." These 15 questions, and my answers to them, follow and demonstrate the key grammatical elements taught in Signing Naturally Units 1–6, and also in many ASL101 courses that use other texts. I speak and sign so I can show students how to translate the English questions on the cards, and answers to them, into American Sign Language (ASL). I signed the questions and answers as closely as I could to the way the Deaf language models in Signing Naturally Units 1–6 signed them. Full disclosure: I am not a native signer; I began learning ASL when I was 21, and have been an ASL-English interpreter since 1990. Most Deaf instructors, and many hearing instructors, do not speak English when teaching ASL, but I sometimes do so, and I hope some YouTube viewers benefit from it.