Learning Journal 11: State your learning goals for this week and how you went about accomplishing these goals.
For task 10, I was required to read a Czech children’s book. I read a folktale called Longshanks, Girth, and Keen, the story of three serving men. Basically, an old king wants his son to marry and he decides to choose the most beautiful woman in the entire land, but she is heavily guarded under a magician’s spell. He recruits three men with special abilities to help him with his tasks. At the end of the story, he marries the princess and asks the men to stay with him, but they tell him that they are wanderers and decide to leave. I first read the Czech version, and use the English version as reference. Some of the translations were difficult because they were not in American vernacular. However
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