Take Five Planning Sheet

Directions: Follow these steps to organize and complete this planning sheet. When you’re ready,
you’ll submit it as your assessment. When it’s time for your Discussion-Based Assessment, you’ll be
ahead of the game since you have your plan.

During your next discussion, you’ll use a combination of signs and the ASL alphabet to show that you
can:

 demonstrate correct signing and fingerspelling

 tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end
 use indexing, classifiers, and storytelling techniques

Here’s your mission:

 Tell a short story. Share something that really happened or make it up—you decide. Keep it
simple, but make sure it has a beginning, middle, and end.
 Include at least one classifier in your story. Semantic, descriptive, instrumental, and locative
classifiers—so many to choose from. Which one fits your story?
 Use at least one storytelling technique. Focus on what your story looks like and choose one
technique used in ASL to make it shine. Depending on the technique, you might use it to give
a visual description, shift roles, convey speed, and more. Have fun with it!
 Review the Workshop Rubric. Check out your requirements before you get started. Your
planning sheet will be scored according to this rubric.

Plan It
Use this chart as a script for what you plan to share. Check out this sample for a better idea of what
yours might look like. Have your rubric handy—it’ll show you how you’ll be scored.

Requirement What I plan to say Notes/Reminders (signing,

hand position, facial
expressions, etc.)
Sample: Story Sample: Sample:

Beginning: I went camping with
my family.
Middle: There was a tree next
to the pond. My brother, Chris,
climbed the tree.
End: He fell in the pond.
Setting: Campground
Characters: Narrator and Chris
Draw or paste pictures to show
what happened at the
beginning middle, and end of
the story.
Beginning
Use signs for: I, camping, family,
tree, pond, my, brother,
climbed the tree, fell, pond
Fingerspell C-H-R-I-S
Don’t forget to show that my
camping trip happened in the
past. Remember to index when
referring to Chris.

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 Middle

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End

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Story Draw or paste pictures to show

what happened at the
Beginning:
beginning middle, and end of
Middle: the story.

End:

Setting:

Characters:

Sample: Classifier Sample: Sample:

Classifier: CL:5 There was a tree next to the Use signs for: tree, pond
pond.
Subject: tree Remember to sign the subject
before using CL:5.
Used to show: spatial
relationship between the tree
and the pond

Classifier

Classifier:

Subject:
Used to show:

Sample: Storytelling technique Sample: Sample:

Technique: Role Shifting My brother, Chris, climbed the How would I use this technique
tree. He fell in the pond. to show I’m changing roles?
Characters: shift from narrator
to Chris Don’t forget facial expressions
and NMMs. What would Chris
Used to show: Chris’
look like while all this is
movements, actions, and
happening?
behavior while climbing the
tree and falling from it

Storytelling technique

Technique:

Characters:

Used to show:

Present It
Does your game plan feel complete? Of course! That’s because you organized your story and made
sure to hit all the tasks in the rubric. Now it’s time to submit your planning sheet.