ASL Register
This register should be used when making ASL videos.
Formal register
The woman who freed many slaves through the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
True or False: Black ASL is dialect of ASL and it's still a language.
True
The first Black, Asian-American, Woman Vice President of the United States
Who is Kamala Harris?
True or False: Consultative register is used between two people with different statuses, for example- a teacher and student.
True
Kamala Harris' Sign name
Handshape O-3 (twist the wrist, palm orientation starting outwards and twisting inwards to face the body)
_______________ was one of the reasons Black ASL was developed.
segregation
The year women got the right to vote
1920
You use this register in the home with your family
Intimate (Also accepted, informal)
The Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture is located here.
Washington D.C?
A person teaching Tik Toker's about BASL
Who is Nakia Smith (@itscharmay)?
The year the celebration of Women's History Week/Month started
1978/1980
This register never changes.
Frozen register
The person who signed the National Anthem and America the Beautiful at the Superbowl this year.
Warren 'Wawa' Snipe?
Name one researcher to studied Black ASL.
Carolyn McCaskill, Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, and Joseph Hill.
Name one Deaf Woman in history!
Answers vary
The five different types of register
Formal, consultative, informal, intimate, and frozen registers
The year Black history was first celebrated.
1926 (Carter G. Woodson created a celebratory week in 1926 and it was changed to a month long celebration in 1976)
Show me one sign that is different in ASL and BASL
:)
This word means 'right to vote'
Suffrage