Unit 5 What Are Our Real Values?
Unit 5 What Are Our Real Values?
I.Teaching Aims: Help the students to get a better understanding of American values. Get the students to grasp the key words and sentence structures
I. Teaching Aims: ◼ Help the students to get a better understanding of American values. ◼ Get the students to grasp the key words and sentence structures
II.Teaching Importance and Difficulties: Understand the author's main purpose of writing the essay. Know the writing strategies of the text. Grasp the key language points in the text. III.Teaching periods:6 periods
◼ Understand the author’s main purpose of writing the essay. ◼ Know the writing strategies of the text. ◼ Grasp the key language points in the text. III. Teaching periods: 6 periods II. Teaching Importance and Difficulties:
IV.Teaching steps: 1.Warm-up Questions: As a Chinese,what do you value most?Can you generalize what Chinese values are? Ref:Among the treasury teachings of Confucius,there are nine standards by which to administer the empire,its states,and the families. 1.cultivating the personal life; 2.honoring the worthy; 3.being affectionate to relatives; 4.being respectful toward the great ministers; 5.identifying oneself with the welfare of the whole body of officers; 6.treating the common people as one's own children; 7.attracting the various artisans; 8.showing tenderness to strangers from far countries; 9.extending kindly and awesome influence on the feudal lords
1. Warm-up Questions: As a Chinese, what do you value most? Can you generalize what Chinese values are? Ref: Among the treasury teachings of Confucius, there are nine standards by which to administer the empire, its states, and the families. 1. cultivating the personal life; 2. honoring the worthy; 3. being affectionate to relatives; 4. being respectful toward the great ministers; 5. identifying oneself with the welfare of the whole body of officers; 6. treating the common people as one's own children; 7. attracting the various artisans; 8. showing tenderness to strangers from far countries; 9. extending kindly and awesome influence on the feudal lords. IV. Teaching steps:
2.Information related to the text: About the author:An independent journalist and a television commentator,Nicols Fox was born in 1942 and received her education at Mary Baldwin College.Her articles have appeared in such publications as The American Journalism Review,the Economist and The New York Times. Nicols Fox is an author and bookseller.Her book AGAINST THE MACHINE:The Hidden Luddite Tradition in Literature,Art,and Individual Lives is now out in paperback. She is also the author of the essay found in ALONE TOGETHER, a book of David Graham's photographs of Placentia Island
2. Information related to the text: About the author: An independent journalist and a television commentator, Nicols Fox was born in 1942 and received her education at Mary Baldwin College. Her articles have appeared in such publications as The American Journalism Review, the Economist and The New York Times. Nicols Fox is an author and bookseller. Her book AGAINST THE MACHINE: The Hidden Luddite Tradition in Literature, Art, and Individual Lives is now out in paperback. She is also the author of the essay found in ALONE TOGETHER, a book of David Graham's photographs of Placentia Island