Sign Me Alice & Laurent Clerc: A Profile/ Classroom Guide

Sign Me Alice is an outrageous comedy and the most popular play ever shown at Gallaudet University. Based on Pygmalion and My Fair Lady, it teaches lessons about Deaf people and their conflicts with the hearing world over styles of communication.Laurent A Profile is an historical play about the Deaf Frenchman who sacrificed his personal life to become America's first teacher of deaf children and who is the father of American Sign Language (ASL). Along with Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, he made American deaf education possible in early 1800s.Combining Sign Me Alice & Laurent Two Deaf Plays and Classroom Guide to Suggested Activities and Projects, teachers can bring a wonderful learning experience to deaf and hearing students in secondary schools, literature classes, and Deaf Studies classes. Unveiling many social issues within the Deaf community, the plays bring more awareness to the students about the importance of the rich visual language that is American Sign Language (ASL) and its history.Classroom Guide -- Concise definitions of American Sign Language, Cued Speech, and Seeing Exact English (SEE)-- Synopses & Vocabulary (English & ASL) for each Act and Scene-- Comprehension Check, Answer Key, and Discussion Questions-- Suggestions for understanding characterization, setting, plot, conflict, mood, and stage directions