Unit 10 American literature
teaching important points:
1.improve the students’ listening ability.
2.improve the students’ speaking ability by discussion,talks and so on.
teaching difficult points:
1.how to improve the students’ listening ability.
2.how to finish the task of speaking.
teaching methods:
1.listening-and-answering activty to help the students go through with the listening material.
2.individual work and group work to make every student work in class.
teaching aids:
1.a tape recorder
2.a computer for multimedia use
teaching procedures:
step ⅰ greetings
greet the whole class as usual.
step ⅱ warming up and lead-in
t:do you like reading stories and novels?
ss:yes.
t:i think most of you are fond of literature.i think you must be familiar with chinese literature.but are you interested in american literature?perhaps some of you have a hobby of reading novels or other works written by foreign writers.now let’s read the text written by rudley randall.(bb:rudley randall) after you read it,i’ll ask you to answer some questions.
(teacher gives students a few minutes to read the text,then teacher shows the questions on the screen.)
1.what kind of text is the one you have just read?
2.what is it about and what does it mean?
3.can you tell something about the writer?
4.why does this have to be american literature?could it be written by a poet from another country?
5.think about the history and life in the united states.what special themes and sort of stories would you expect for american literature?
t:who’d like to answer the first question?
s1:i think it’s a poem.
t:quite right.now the second one,please.
s2:it’s about american blacks,i think.in the poem,the author expresses his deep feelings for his ancestor,though he is a slave.the poem reminds us not to forget where we come from.
t:your answer sounds reasonable.who is the volunteer to answer the third question?
s3:i’ve learnt something about him.he was an american poet.he was born in washington d.c.in 1914.he was the founder and chief editor of a publishing house in detroit.he was the major publisher for the poetry of american blacks.the burning city was one of his poetry selections.(bb:the burning city)
t:very good.now the fourth question.who’d like to answer it?
s4:the poem talks about “slave traders”.that has something to do with american blacks.as we know,american blacks are mostly slaves taken from africa by slave traders.in the text,the author is in praise of their ancestors,who were slaves.from the content of the text,we can guess it must be american literature and it can’t be written by a poet from another country.