Acquire and employ knowledge of language as a system and the ways in which languages are different and similar.

Assessment: 50 pts.

Due: Session 2

Teachers will understand the significance of relationships in instruction of ELLs (and all students) and apply it in their daily practice with students.

Students will read the article Coercive and Collaborative Relations by Jim Cummins that introduces new terminology and factual ideas in a context that reveals the emotional side of education. They will apply their learning to the story they read in the previous session. They will prepare to discuss these ideas in session 2.