Literature Series: Bird of a Different Feather and For a Decent Living Student Workbook

The ASL Literature Series Student Workbook accompanies the Student Videotext.  Combined these tools will enhance student’s ASL comprehension.  Students learn how to retell the stories and recognize the linguistic and cultural aspects of the ASL narratives.  Linguistic and cultural notes provide students with background leading to greater appreciation of events as told in the narratives.

Ben Bahan’s allegorical fable, Bird of a Different Feather, explores the experience of a different looking bird within  a family of eagles.  Rather than accepting the bird’s difference, the eagle family tries to apply a pathological approach to raising the unusual bird.  It is an odyssey familiar to many deaf people.

Sam Supalla’s For a Decent Living is a novella in which the protagonist is a deaf boy on a journey to find his deaf identity.  Leaving an unsympathetic hearing family, he faces the continuing dilemma of proving himself to his family, the deaf community, and society at large.

Sam Supalla and Ben Bahan, Authors

DawnSign Press

Pairs with: Literature Series: Bird of a Different Feather and For a Decent Living VHS