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Using Stories When W e Teach Key Concepts Cherry Watts PhD The University of Tennessee at Martin When do you tell stories Close your eyes Remember a story you were told What do you see How old were you Can you remember the story now. Every day the blackbird would sing and sing When I ate my breakfast the blackbird ate his breakfast When I ate my lunch the blackbird ate his lunch When I ate my dinner the blackbird ate his dinner When I had a snack the blackbird had a snack too Th 1 RE Once upon a time , in a field not too far from you , there was an energetic and happ y hare and a sleepy tortoise. The happy hare was called Noel and the sleepy to rtoise was called Archiba Once upon a time there was a little fat comfortable grey squirrel, called Timmy Tiptoes. He had a nest thatched with leaves in the top of a tall tree; and he had a little squirrel wife called Good In a faraway land. There lived a great scholar . He governed an. ancient seat of learning. One of the world’s top . 50 . universities. 29,000 . students (8k from overseas). 10,000 . staff (2k from overseas). who. baked a gingerbread man. . But. the gingerbread man ran out of the house and down the lane.. “Stop, stop!” cried the little old lady. . But. the gingerbread man said “Run, run as fast as you can you can’t catch me I’m the Gingerbread Man.”. Introduction for the demise of the authentic Orient Do Lord We’ve got a home in glory land… There was a gathering of all the fundraising royalty in the kingdom…. The grand dames, the squires, the sainted consultants, the publishing scribes and one lowly peasant from the House of Agitator.. far. away, lived a little spoon. Now this spoon was not just any ordinary spoon. He could dip, scoop, scrape, and was far shinier and smoother than all the other spoons.. But this spoon had a problem. He didn’t want to be shiny and smooth. He didn’t want to dip, scoop, and scrape. He wanted to cut, just like Knife!. Once upon a time there were three little kittens, and their names were Mittens, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. ey had dear little fur coats of their en she brushed their fur (this one is Mittens). en The little engine began to feel very discouraged indeed, but he turned around and went chugging back down the tracks to the roundhouse. In the roundhouse he looked around and he saw a yellow car. Th They were a happy couple for they had everything in the World.. However…when the Queen’s birthday came near the King had a problem:. What could he give to someone who had everything?. ?. The King thought and he thought and he thought. Until suddenly, he had an idea!. ”. long, violent, dreamlike meditation upon the mythology of the American Old West, with many stylistic references to iconic western films. (. C'. Why this movie?. Time. named . Once Upon a Time in the West. In the once upon a time days of the First Age of Magic, the prudent sorcerer regarded his own true name as his most valued possession but also the greatest threat to his continued good health, for--the stories go--once an enemy, even a weak unskilled enemy, learned the sorcerer's true name, then routine and widely known spells could destroy or enslave even the most powerful. As times passed, and we graduated to the Age of Reason and thence to the first and second industrial revolutions, such notions were discredited. Now it seems that the Wheel has turned full circle (even if there never really was a First Age) and we are back to worrying about true names again: