School Subjects
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People
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100
What is the sign for Chemistry?
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - Back and Forth, Circular Motion
2) Location - Chest Area
3) Hand Shape - the letter 'C'
4) Palm Orientation - Outwards, Center
5) NMS - Neutral
100
What is the sign for Fun?
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - Up and Down
2) Location - Nose as the starting point, then Down to your Non-Dominant Hand.
3) Hand Shape - the letter 'H' in both fingers
4) Palm Orientation - Outwards or Center
5) NMS - Happy
100
What is the sign for Tape?
Ms. Walker's version of Tape is fingerspelled, according to sources in Canvas.
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Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - Up and Down on the Dominant Hand (Once)
2) Location - Below the Chest
3) Hand Shape - the letter 'A' in both hands
4) Palm Orientation - Center
5) NMS - Neutral
100
What is the sign for Teacher?
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - Up and Down
2) Location - Head, then Body areas
3) Hand Shape - oddly 'O'-shaped, flat '5'
4) Palm Orientation - Outwards
5) NMS - Neutral
100
What is the sign for Office?
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - Open and Close
2) Location - Chest Area
3) Hand Shape - the letter 'O'
4) Palm Orientation - Inwards, then Outwards
5) NMS - Neutral
200
What is the sign for Algebra?
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - Up and Down
2) Location - Chest Area
3) Hand Shape - the letter 'A'
4) Palm Orientation - Inwards
5) NMS - Neutral
200
What is the sign for Excited?
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - Back and Forth
2) Location - Front of the Chest
3) Hand Shape - the number '8' without the Thumb in place
4) Palm Orientation - Inwards or Center
5) NMS - Happy
200
What is the sign for Book?
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - Open and Close
2) Location - Below the Chest
3) Hand Shape - flat '5'
4) Palm Orientation - Outwards
5) NMS - Neutral
200
What is the sign for Student?
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - Up and Down
2) Location - Head, then Body areas
3) Hand Shape - oddly 'O'-shaped, flat '5'
4) Palm Orientation - Inwards
5) NMS - Neutral
200
Yes or No: Is the sign for High School abbreviated?
Yes.
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - Fingerspelled
2) Location - Side of the Chest
3) Hand Shape - the letters 'H' and 'S'
4) Palm Orientation - Center
5) NMS - Neutral
300
What is the sign for History?
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - Up and Down
2) Location - Below the Chest
3) Hand Shape - the letter 'H'
4) Palm Orientation - Sideways, Outwards
5) NMS - Neutral
300
What is the sign for Different?
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - Back and Forth (Once)
2) Location - Center of Chest
3) Hand Shape - the number '1'
4) Palm Orientation - Inwards, then Outwards
5) NMS - Neutral
300
What is the sign for Bag (or School Bag)?
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - Back and Forth
2) Location - Chest Area
3) Hand Shape - the letter 'A' in both hands, facing each other to the side
4) Palm Orientation - Inwards or Center
5) NMS - Happy
300
What is the sign for Assistant Principal
1) Hand Movement - Back and Forth, then Circular Motion
2) Location - Chest Area
3) Hand Shape - the letter 'A' for Assistant, and 'P' for Principal
4) Palm Orientation - Center
5) NMS - Neutral
300
What is the handshape for Auditorium?
A number '15' sign.
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - Forwards, then Backwards
2) Location - Body to Chest Areas
3) Hand Shape - the number '15,' except it's not repeated
4) Palm Orientation - Inwards
5) NMS - Neutral
400
What is the handshape for Theater?
An A-shaped sign.
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - Back and Forth, Circular Motion
2) Location - Chest Area
3) Hand Shape - the letter 'A'
4) Palm Orientation - Inwards, Center
5) NMS - Neutral
400
Yes or No: Is there an NMS when for Interesting?
Yes.
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - both Hands are bounced
2) Location - Center of Chest
3) Hand Shape - the number '8'
4) Palm Orientation - Outwards and Center
5) NMS - Confused, but it varies on context
400
What is the Palm Orientation for Paper?
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - Back and Forth
2) Location - Chest Area
3) Hand Shape - flat 5 on the Dominant Hand
4) Palm Orientation - Outwards, Center
5) NMS - Neutral
400
What is the sign for Teacher Assistant?
https://www.signingsavvy.com/sign/teacher+aide/8273/2
1) Hand Movement - Back and Forth for Assistant, Up and Down for Teacher
2) Location - Chest, Head, then Body Areas
3) Hand Shape - letter 'A' for Assistant, oddly 'O'-shaped, then a flat '5'
4) Palm Orientation - Inwards
5) NMS - Neutral
400
What is the sign for Library?
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - Circular Motion
2) Location - Chest Area
3) Hand Shape - the letter 'L'
4) Palm Orientation - Outwards, Center
5) NMS - Neutral
500
Which hand do you fingerspell P.E.?
Dominant Hand. It doesn't matter if you're left or right-handed.
https://www.handspeak.com/word/4883/
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - is Fingerspelled
2) Location - Away from the Chest Area
3) Hand Shape - the letters 'P' and 'E'
4) Palm Orientation - Outwards
5) NMS - Neutral
500
What is the Palm Orientation for Important?
Outwards.
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - Circular Motion
2) Location - starts at the Body, then end the sign towards the Chest
3) Hand Shape - the letter 'F' or Downwards Sign for "Family"
4) Palm Orientation - Center
5) NMS - Neutral
500
What is the Handshape for Pen (or Pencil)?
A 'X'-shaped.
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - Up and Down
2) Location - Nose as the starting point, then Down to your Non-Dominant Hand.
3) Hand Shape - the letter 'X' on the Dominant Hand, and flat '5' on the Non-Dominant Hand
4) Palm Orientation - Inwards or Center
5) NMS - Happy
500
What is the sign for Interpreter?
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - 'F' is Back and Forth
2) Location - below the Chest, close to the Body
3) Hand Shape - the letter 'F,' flat '5'
4) Palm Orientation - Center
5) NMS - Neutral
500
Yes or No: Is the sign for Mall fingerspelled?
Yes.
Parameters:
1) Hand Movement - Left to Right
2) Location - Away from Shoulders
3) Hand Shape - letters 'A', 'L', and 'M'
4) Palm Orientation - Outwards, Center
5) NMS - Neutral