What are your reflections after practicing the ASL alphabet?.Practice finger-spelling your name and other names.What do you see that looks strange or unfamiliar?.How much of the text can you read? What does it say?.As they are practicing the ASL alphabet, discuss how understanding sign language helps them better understand Macy as a character. Challenge students to finger-spell their names, the title of this book, and the name of your school. For this primary source pairing, invite students to study and practice the ASL alphabet chart. Throughout the story, different characters speak with Macy using ASL including her mother, her neighbor Iris, her new stepfather, and her new stepsisters. Macy is deaf and communicates using American Sign Language (ASL). When she is tasked with helping her neighbor, she’s not sure things can get a lot worse, but at least she has an excuse to not work on the flowers for the wedding. She likes things the way they are, thank you very much. Macy is not happy about her mother’s new marriage plans. Dealing with her mother remarrying to a man with twin daughters and her family moving, deaf sixth-grader Macy is told that she must help her elderly neighbor Iris Gillan, who is also getting ready to move to a nursing home.
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