"Myths And Their Transformations,"
	Heracles: The Adventures - Arthur S. Espinosa, Valley High School
	I teach English as a second language at Valley Senior High School. My main objective for this unit of Heracles is to help students in ELD classes to continue to acquire communicative competence in the target language. Since the goals of the ELD and Language Arts curricula are interrelated, the ELD instructional program is committed to teaching and learning that is developmental in nature. With this unit teachers can utilize language acquisition methodology that strengthens students' abilities to listen actively, speak fluently, read efficiently, and write effectively. I continuously look for reading material that is interesting and that helps fulfill my goals. The literature on Heracles provides interesting material and helps me to achieve my goals as a teacher. In addition, these stories regarding Heracles give an impression that when a person fights evil, he must sometimes kill, cheat, lie to be treacherous, indulge in sex with many women, and commit numerous crimes in order to succeed in the quest and challenges to defeat evil. As people read about the life of Heracles they begin to feel that they are fighting evil along with Heracles. The life of Heracles is an adventurous and exciting story that has much to offer to students. Therefore, I will be discussing information regarding the descendants, birth, childhood, the twelve labors, and the death of Heracles. Furthermore, my objective for this unit is to describe a man who is a classical hero yet who joins contradictions. He not only fights external forces that are violent, but in turn he struggles with the violence that he himself creates.