The elephant game
(Book)

Spiral bound.

"The Elephant Game introduces students to one of the most cherished activities in the Deaf community. Played by Deaf individuals for generations, ASL students learn about its rules and game-playing strategies, develop insight into Deaf perspectives towards the game, and apply a wide variety of language skills in the process. Through meaningful use of language, students deepen their understanding of Deaf culture and increase their language proficiency."--Back cover.

The Elephant Game, part of the ASL and Deaf Culture Activity Series, is one of the most well-known cultural activities enjoyed by Deaf individuals of all ages. To play the game, players often called elephants are arranged in a circle and face inward toward the caller or pointer who then selects a person who must immediately form the elephant trunk by placing two S handshapes together in front of his face. Then the two players on each side must form the ears using the B or open B handshapes. If no errors occur then the caller selects another. This goes on until only two or three people are left in the game. This DVD and accompanying required manual present activities where ASL students engage in meaningful language and culture exercises on topics related to the Elephant Game. The activities are rich in classifiers, numbers, geography, ASL literature, fingerspelling, personal narratives, game-playing strategies and idioms and are presented on two levels: novice for high school or college first and second semester students and intermediate for high school or college third and second semester ASL students.

Accompanying DVD is American Sign Language only, with no sound or captions.