M2ThestoryofHarryPotterandJKRowling-山西省昔阳县中学校外研版高中

1、M2ThestoryofHarryPotterandJKRowling-山西省昔阳县中学校外研版高中优选The story of J.K.Rowling and Harry Potter 学案Learning aims:1.Vocabulary-try to memorize as many words as you can sothat you can use them properly.2.Sentences-learn to analyze and understand the plicatedsentences.3.Structure-learn to summarize the ma

2、in idea of eachparagraph and master some reading skills: skimming,scanning4.Output-by using what we have learned ,try to expressyour ideas.Step1：Vocabulary petition：a.Guess the words according to the pictures.b.Guess the words accor ding to their meanings.1.not prepared to change your ideas2.the amo

3、unt ofwork produced3. to collect4.the place you efrom5.to reach6.the basic plan7.a small story8.talented9.as a result10.a small changec.Make sentences by using the following words and phrases.1 / 10优选stubborn overeappeal to sb. be restricted tobe responsible for be associated withStep2：Sent ence pet

4、ition：1.She went to teach English in Portugal, she continued to addflesh to bones of the first Harry Potter story.引导从句，在从句中做语。2. It was only in 1997 she pleted the first Harry Potterstory，,because the publisher in the USA request anadjustment to the title, was also known as Harry Potter and the Sorc

5、erers Stone.划线部分是个句，构成是，强调的是语。3. makes the books so important is ,because they appeal to readers of all ages, they create a special litery bond between parents and children.引导从句，引导从句。Step 3: Simming :Match the questions and paragraphs. Then answer them.Divide them into three Parts.Para 1 a. How long

6、 did it take to write the series?2 / 10优选Para 2 b. What is the appeal of Harry Potter?Para 3 c. How many people have read Harry Potter?Para 4 d. Where did the idea for Harry Potter e from?Para 5 e. How did J.K.Rowling begin writing the first book?Para 6 f. When did success arrive?Step4:Scanning:a.Re

7、ad part 1 and pay more attention to these importantplaces.Places EventsThe southwest ofEnglandA delayed trainbetween Manchesterand LondinPortugalEdinburgh inScotlandb.Read part2 and find the difficulties that J.K.Rowling metwhen writing the books.c.Read Part3 and fill in the blanks.3 / 10优选The books

8、readers of all ages and a special literary bondbetween parents and children and arefor a renewed reading.Harry Potter has even bee part of school ,much to thepleasure of the .They into more than 55 languages and morethan 250million copies around the world. By 2005, Rowlingmore than one billion dolla

9、rs and became the first author.Step 5: Challenge yourself:Level1: After reading the passage, what can we learn fromJ.K.Rowling?(Write down at least three sentences)(6 POINTS)1. .2. .3. .Level 2:Interview(10 POINTS)You are interviewing the first billionaire author J.K.Rowling,the creator of Harry Pot

10、ter.StudentA: a reporter talks to StudentB: J.K. Rowling about her story.Step6:Summary:Where there is a will, there is a way.My words to you:Be stubborn: Whatever difficulties and failures you meet,whatyou should do is to overe them and seek solutions to the problems.4 / 10优选5 / 10 Be confident:Beli

11、eve yourself and make up your mind to achieve your dream.Be creative:Use your imagination and e up with some original and unique ideas.Don t close your hearts and minds to life. Attached material: 2008年J.K.罗琳在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲节选So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant

12、a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in th e on

13、e arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. 那么为什么我要谈论失败

14、的好处呢？因为失败意味着剥离掉那些不必要的东西。我因此不再伪装自己、远离自我，而重新开始把所有精力放在对我最重要的事情上。如果不是没有在其他领域成功过，我可能就不会找到，在一个我确信真正属于的舞台上取得成功的决心。我获得了自由，因为最害怕的虽然已经发生了，但我还活着，我仍然有一个我深爱的女儿，我还有一个旧打字机和一个很大的想法。所以困境的谷底，成为我重建生活的坚实基础。 You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without

15、 failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all in which case, you fai l by default. 你们可能永远没有达到我经历的那种失败程度，但有些失败，在生活中是不可避免的。生活不可能没有一点失败，除非你生活的万般小心，而那也意味着你没有真正在生活了。无论怎样，有些失败还是注定地要发生。 Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passin

16、g examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above rubies.优选6 / 10 失败使我的心产生一种安全感，这是我从考试中没有得到过的。失败让我看清自己，这也是我通过其他

17、方式无法体会的。我发现，我比自己认为的，要有更强的意志和决心。我还发现，我拥有比宝石更加珍贵的朋友。 The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversi

18、ty. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it ha s been worth more to me than any qualification I ever earned. 从挫折中获得智慧、变得坚强，意味着你比以往任何时候都更有能力生存。只有在逆境来临的时候，你才会真正认识你自己，了解身边的人。这种了解是真正的财富，虽然是用痛苦换来的，但比我以前得到的任何书都有用。 Life is difficult, and plicated, and beyond anyones total co

19、ntrol, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes. 生活是艰辛的，复杂的，超出任何人的控制能力，而谦恭地了解这一点，将使你历经沧桑后能够更好的生存。 And many pref er not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain fortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it wo

20、uld feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. 而很多人选择不去使用他们的想象力。他们选择留在自己舒适的世界里，从来不愿花力气去想想如果生在别处会怎样。他们可以拒绝去听别人的尖叫，看一眼囚禁的笼子；他们可

21、以封闭自己的心，只要痛苦不触及个人，他们可以拒绝去了解。 As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. 生活就像故事一样：不在乎长短，而在于质量，这才是最重要的。 Oprah Interview with J.K.Rowling The J. K. Rowling legend begins with a delightful children s book about an orphan boy wizard named with a lightning-shaped sc

22、ar a boy with a magical destiny. A destiny shared by his creator. J. K. Rowling is the first self -made billionaire author in history, selling more than four-hundred million books, captivating readers in sixty-nine languages, and two-hundred countries around the world. Harry s fina l chapter the Dea

23、thly Ha llows, is the fastest-selling book of all time. No wonder she s credited with doing more for literacy than anyone else on the planet. Her empire spans movies, merchandise even an amusement park. The Harry Potter blockbusters are the highest grossing movie franchise in history raki ng in more

24、 than 5.3 billion dollars and still counting. Winfrey: So, this is the first time we ve met. Rowling: Yes, it is.优选7 / 10 Rowling: I m not going to say I won t. I don t think I will. I loved writing those books. I love writing it. So, I feel I am done but you never know. Rowling : the industry and t

25、he entire universe of Harry Potter began I m sure the pressure was overwhelming at times. We turned-up to a book signing my second American tour my first American tour hand been kind of hit and miss, you know? We turned-up for my second American tour, thought it was going to be the same thing again.

26、 We re in this car rolling down the street and there s just this queue block after block after block after block and I m looking out the window and I turn to the girl from the publisher and I say “Is there a sale on?” And we turn the corner and there was this enormous Barnes & Noble and I thought “O

27、h, my God ”. And the queue snaked up the street, up the Barnes & Noble, up though four floors and they took me in the back entrance. They opened the door and they screamed. And all these light-bulbs went off in my face. And I was oh, my God and I signed two thousand books and the queue hadn t ended.

28、 We had to go.Winfrey: We call queues lines. hat s when i t started to get crazy. So you ask about the pressure? At that point I kept saying to people “Yeah, I m coping, I m coping.” The truth was there were times I was barely hanging by a thread.J. K., then a struggling single mother, wrote the Sor

29、cerer s Stone long-hand, while her young daughter slept at her side.Rowling: Philosopher s Stone which became Sorcerer s Stone.Which became Sorcerer s Stone, exactly. So that s the first novel. And I had this moment where I suddenly thought It was like another voice speaking to me and the voice said

30、 “the difficult thing is going to get published. If it gets published it will be huge.” Winfrey: Wow.Rowling: And that is exactly what it was.Winfrey: So there was some hint that the voice had said to you Rowling: Well, the thing is you ve got to believe, haven t you?Winfrey: Yes.One day every child

31、 in the world will know his name.I was someone with not much self-belief at all and yet in this one thing in my life I believed. That was the one thing in my life. I felt I can tell a story .Winfrey: Is it true that it just You know I ve heard the legend is that the story just entered your head whil

32、e on a train.Rowling: Yeah. That is that s true.Rowling: Yeah. Five or six. That s all I ever wanted to be.Winfrey: Was a writer.Rowling: Yeah. I wrote pulsively all through my late teens into my twenties, but I d never really the right thing, you know? And then I was on a train, I was twenty-优选8 /

33、10 five, and it came. And what came was boy who doesn t know he s a wizard goes to wizarding school . Bang. Bang. Bang. And then that was it. And that was like touch paper. And I was on this delayed train going from Manchester to London and my head was just flooding with what s at this wizard s scho

34、ol. There were four houses, there were ghosts, there were house ghosts. What do they teach? What subjects do they learn? Who are the teachers? And I had no pen. But that was it. That was it. And I don t think I had ever felt so excited. I thought I d love to write that . I d never thought about writ

35、ing for children. I d never thought about aiming anything at that age group and yet it was the thing I was meant to write, you know? Because I d always been fascinated by folklore. I love a kooky word.Winfrey: I think the greatest gift the Harry Potter series has given to the world is the freedom to

36、 use our imaginations.Rowling: I m not saying I believe magic is real. I don t. But that s the perennial appeal of magic that we ourselves have power and we can shape our world Winfrey:After selling more than four-hundred million copies of this series it s hard to believe that twelve publishers reje

37、cted the Sorcerer s Stone. J. K. signed the deal with a warning from her agent. “You ll never make money writing children s books ”.Winfrey: In the United States you re known as the first billionaire author.Rowling: Yeah.Winfrey: So how has being the first billionaire author affected your perception

38、 of yourself?Rowling:you can definitely afford better clothes. I think the single biggest thing that money gave me and obviously I came from a place where I was a single mother and it really was hand to mouth at one point. It frees you. That s what it does. It frees you. That s why it s like a super

39、 power. You don t it frees you. I mean we don t have to the luxury of literally being able to sit down and say “where should we go for a holiday?” and not be, in any way, limited. Winfrey: But when you read the Potter books, watch the Potter movies the theme that is consistent and that obviously in

40、the end rules is love.Rowling: Definitely.Winfrey: Love wins.Winfrey: Before J. K. Rowling became one of the world s richest women she led a modest life as a secretary in London. She was twenty-five years old when her mother died from Multiple Sclerosis sending Jo into an emotional tailspin. Despera

41、te to escape the pain, she moved to Portugal, married and gave birth to her first daughter, Jessica. But, the marriage was, in Jo s words, short and catastrophic . She packed-up her daughter and优选9 / 10 moved to Scotland, where she hit a knew low. Jo was clinically depressed and struggling to surviv

42、e on welfare. Winfrey: What did your first marriage teach you about yourself? You know, we ve heard very little about it and you haven t spoken very much about it only that it was short-lived. I think thirteen months and a day?Rowling: Yeah, you d think. You say “what did I learn ”? I thin k that it

43、 taught me I m proud that it taught me how that I had a strong survival instinct. Because when I knew that it was time to go, I left.I had a very, very tiny baby. And then I went straight into poverty and depression. Winfrey: So the most important thing about that speech I think first of all you tal

44、ked about how rock-bottom became the foundation from which you rebuilt your life. But the most important thing was about how to use failure.Rowling: Failure. Failure is so impor it doesn t get spoken about enough. We speak about success all the tim e, but, you know, I do not know any I haven t met a

45、nd I ve been so fortunate and met extraordinary people through Harry Potter, and not one of them didn t have their failure more than one failure. And it s the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn t it? So, yeah. Failure. I ve often met people who who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they d rather do anything that fail. They don t want to