What I want my students to learn in the course, given who they are, their needs, the purpose of the course (SWBAT)

General

• Language is creative and intellectually rewarding in other than language-specific ways
• Communication and mutual understanding is foundational
• They are capable of producing art with language
• Four skills are intertwined

Content Specific

• Traditional tales have great depth, revealing much about both human universalities and individual cultures
• Texts — oral and written — can be explored on many, ever-deepening levels

Four Skills

• All of them: reading and analyzing; speaking; listening; writing

Telling a story (oral and written)P

Past tenses

Temporal adverbs

Story sequence

Idioms