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Activity: Describing The Escapee
Describing The Escapee

Students work in pairs, using James Smith’s Certificate of Freedom to develop a police identikit so that they can catch James Smith, who has absconded (again!). Click “download activity” to get the full instructions and printable handout.

Outcomes:

Sstudents will use SASS depicting signs in meaningful ways, to describe physical characteristics such as the scars and tattoos of a historical deaf person
students will use spatial location appropriately when describing marks on a human body

Key Concepts/Vocabulary:
  • convict
  • tattoo
  • scar
  • SASS and spatial location
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