现代大学英语第二册unit3theriteofspring教案

1、课堂教学设计首页课程名称综合英语教学班次人数京IJ名称Unit Three Text A /第三单元 课文A The Rite of Spring教学时数8学时教学内容及 要求内容及要求时间1 .热身；2 .作者：教育与背景；主要看作；创作观；3 .作品赏析：结构分析；如何赏析文学作品；通过 深刻理解文章内涵，培养学生社会洞察力口相关 的讨论能力；4 .写作技巧：省略疑问句和修辞疑问句；倒装句；5 .语言理解：长难句解析；核心词汇学习；介词练 习；构词法：前缀；6 .课堂讨论；7 .练与讲。10 minutes4090301204070重点难点1 .文学作品的赏析；2 .文学中的修辞手法3 .

2、构词法：词缀教学方法结合实际吸收各种教学法（讲授、问答、讨论、模仿、练习、多媒 体使用）的优点。教学手段传统教学手段与多媒体运用相结合回顾和小结作业教学后记备注栏主要内容栏The Rite of SpringBy Arthur MillerPart I Warming up:W川 you be a good gardener A quick quiz!1 .Where is the best location to plant tall or climbing plantsA. North side of the garden B. East side of the gardenC. Sout

3、h side of the garden D. West side of the garden2 .Tomato plants that are " determinate are more bushy plants, and tomato plants that are 'indeterminate' are more viny plants TrueFalse3 .Potatoes are in what familyA. Carrot Family (Umbelliferae)B. Tomato Family (Solanaceae)C. Pea Family

4、(Leguminosae)D. Morning Glory Family (Convolvulaceae)4 .What is the best level of soil ph for MOST plantsA. - B. - C. - D.-5 .Pine needle mulch lowers the ph level of soil while peat moss raises the ph level.TrueFalse6 .When a plant has beautiful lush foliage, but almost no fruit, the plant has an o

5、verdose of:(Ans: One 8-letter word)7 .Tomato leaves that are purple and thin is a pretty good sign that they are lacking Potassium.TrueFalse8 .Potato plants want lots of organic matter in the soil for the potatoes to grow better.TrueFalseNow Check Your Answer!1. North side of the garden.When the tal

6、l plants are planted on the north side, they don't block the sun from other smaller plants and also keep down the north winds.2. True.If you don't want to stake, you will want determinate. If not, go with indeterminate.3. Tomato Family (Solanaceae).Eggplant, Tomato, Tomatillo,备注栏Potato, and

7、Pepper are all in the tomato family.4. - .Most plants require ph levels of 6-7, but a few can toleratelike corn, carrots, and potatoes. Others can grow well in soil ph of like cabbage and cauliflower.5. False.Pine needle mulch and peat moss are good for alkaline soils because they lower the ph level

8、.6. Nitrogen.Nitrogen will help produce lush foliage, but too much will make the plant concentrate on the leaves instead of the fruit.7. False.They lack phosphorus when the plants look like that.8. False.Too much organic matter will cause scabbing on the potatoes.Part II Background InformationArthur

9、 Miller 1915-2005A Harlem-born Polish-Jewish boyMajored in journalism at University of MichiganWrote first play in 1936Received BA in English in 1938First successful playAll My Sons 1946Huge successDeath of a Salesman 1949The Crucible 1953About Salem Witchhunt in 1692HUAC (House Un-American Activiti

10、es Committee), anti- communist McCarthyismAttended a HUAChearing in 1956, refusing to give names; sentenced to a $500 fine or thirty days in prison, blacklisted, and disallowed a US passport Conviction overturned in 1958Return to theatrical success:The Price 1968Experimental drama in 1970s, unsucces

11、sfulKept writing until 2004One of the greatest dramatists of the twentieth century Politically engaged, commercially successful, social plays Numourous awards and honors:Three Tony Awards, Pulitzer Prize forDeath of the Salesmanin 19491965, Elected the first American president of International Pen19

12、93, awarded theNational Medal of Arts2001, selected for theJefferson Lecture, the government's highest honor for achievement in thehumanities his marriageMary Slattery, college sweetheart, 1940Marilyn Monroe, 1956Brief affair in 1951Accompanied Miller to his 1956 trialMade The Misfits with Mille

13、r as the scriptwriter Divorced in 1961Inge Morath, 1962Son Daniel born with Down Syndrome; institutionalized at Miller' s insistenceSon-in-law, English actor Daniel Day-LewisPart III Text Understanding1. StructureI. Gardening as a celebration of the coming spring (1-2).II. Why gardening (3-10)Ga

14、rdening involves conflict and choice-making.Gardening teaches you about nature.Gardening is neurotic and moral.Gardening helps character building.III. Gardening enables people to stay hopeful for the future. (11-12)2. GenreEssayA short piece of prose often written from the author ' personal poin

15、t of viewVague definition, great variety: literary, political, academic, journalistic, argumentative, expository, etc.Aldous Huxley: a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anythingPersonal and the autobiographical: these use "fragments of reflective autobiography" to &

16、quot;look at the world through the keyhole of anecdote and description ".Objective and factual: in these essays, the authors "do not speak directly of themselves, but turn their attention outward to some literary or scientific or political theme".Abstract-universal: these essays "

17、;make the best . of all the three worlds in which it is possible for the essay to exist".Typesof essayFormal & Informal, Impersonal & FamiliarPost-Montaigne, the essay split into two distinct modalities: one remained informal, personal, intimate, relaxed, conversational, and often humor

18、ous; the other dogmatic, impersonal, systematic, and expositoryStructure: rather loose, shapelessSamuel Johnson: "an irregular, indigested piece, not a regular and 备注栏 orderly performance."Voice: usually "I ”Reader' srole:The reader generally believes what the essayist saysis true

19、; he has been called on to join in the making of meaningFamous essayistMichel de Montaigne, first to use the term in Essais 1580Francis Bacon ,“ Of Studies ”W川iam HazlittCharles LambRalph Waldo Emerson3. Theme“The Rite of Spring ”rite: a solemn ceremony or act; a set of fixed words or actsThe Rite o

20、f Spring by Stranvinsky: a sacred pagan ritual where the wise elders are seated in a circle and are observing the dance before death of the girl whom they are offering as a sacrifice to the god of Spring in order to gain his benevolenceWhat does “The Rite of spring " refer to in this textHow is

21、 gardening a rite Does gardening carry any symbolic meaningIs gardening a celebration of springPart IV: Writing devicesIronyDefinition:the surface meaning and the underlying meaning of what is said are not the sameIrony consists in stating the contrary of what is meantTypes of ironyVerbal ironyis a

22、disparity of expression and intentionDramatic ironyis a disparity of awareness between actor and observerSituational ironyis the disparity of intention and resultCan you find where the irony is in“The Rite of Spring ”TitleTime of writingVerbal ironyPart V: Language Understandingpatch: n. a small pie

23、ce of land 优指种菜用的）小块土地;vt. repair, solve, mask 修补； 解决； 掩饰vi.打补丁备注栏relatively : fairly 相对的来说a bunch of : 一堆tell apart from : distinguish (.) from 区分eg . Can you distinguish right from wrong 你能分清是非吗 store-bought : bought in the store 店里买的eg. Though cards can be store-bought, but hand-made ones mean mo

24、re .尽管卡片可以在店里买的，但亲手做的更有意义。human instinct : the nature of human 人类本能 at work : come into effect/play 起作用eg. Political manoeuvrings could well be at work.政治部署也可能正在起作用。back-breaking : (of physical work ) very hard and tiring艰苦繁重的eg. Cleaning is a back-breaking work for me.make-believe : a playful prete

25、nce 伪装 raise:® plant , grow, developeg： Iric raised some roses in the backyard.exist,to cause to exist 弓 I起，导致 communitcate,to communicate with someone, especiallyby telephone or radio 交流justify: to show that sb /sth is right or reasonable, or to give or to be a good reason for 为.辩护eg: If you justify yourself,you give a good reason for what you have done.miserable: very unhappy or uncomfortable eg: She's miserable living on her own. low value,having little value or quilityeg: She only offered me a miserable 20 pounds for my old computer.beam：noun: light, a line of light th