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1、Mapping,Embarkation,Navigation,Destination,Resources,Active reading 2,Learning outcomes,Reading to find out different ways to present argumentsReading to follow style shiftReasoning with different views,Prediction,Eliciting opinions,Bridging information gap,Topic preview:Watch a video clip about the
2、 greatest stories students have ever read and discuss the HOME-RUN books students need to read.,The Greatest Story Ever Read,For Chinese children,what story or stories are the most popular?,Girls？,Boys？,Classroom report:50 books recommended to every girl and boy,Eliciting opinions 1,Girls,Boys,See t
3、he differences between the boys and girls choice.,Eliciting opinions 2,Group discussion and class report:Compare your choice with Henry Millers list,Girls:Do you share any principle with Henry Miller?Boys:Are there any different principles between you and Henry Miller?,See Millers list next page,Eli
4、citing opinions,The list of 100 books(Henry Miller),Ancient Greek Dramatists,Arabian Nights(for children),Elizabethan Playwrights(excepting Shakespeare),European Playwrights of 19th Century,Greek Myths and Legends,Knights of King Arthurs Court,Emerson,Ralph Waldo,Representative Men,Joyce,James,Ulyss
5、es,Maeterlinck,Maurice,His works in general,Mann,Thomas,The Magic Mountain,Scott,Sir Walter,Ivanhoe,Strindberg,August,The Inferno,Swift,Jonathan,Guillivers Travels,Eliciting opinions,Reading classical worksChoosing books which have huge influence at that timeSelecting serious booksReading books whic
6、h reflect current issuesReading books written by well-known books,Same principles,Eliciting opinions,Varieties of books on Henrys list:Children books,legend,drama,philosophy,movie,poetry,novelsWhether to keep tabs on ones favorite authors Whether to choose demoralizing bookswhat purpose to read:for
7、entertainment or instruction?,Different principles,Prediction,Listen to Francis Bacons“Of Studies”and see what suggestion Bacon offers for reading.,taste,swallow,chew and digest,What kind of books can be tasted?What kind of books can be swallowed?What kind of books should be chewed and digested?,Fur
8、ther Thinking,1.Never lend a book to anyone2.Spend all your money on books3.Think about a book before you start reading it4.Dont read any books which are considered to be immoral5.Read as little as possible,Prediction,What suggestion would you like to offer for the readers if you were Henry Miller.,
9、Did you ever think the last is what the author offers?,Text organization,Text exploration,Text evaluation,Understanding the writers style,Jigsaw reading,3.What is my suggestion of reading?(para5-7),Text organisation,1.How did I struggle to obtain books?(para2),2.What makes a book live?(para3-4),Pers
10、onal thinking about reading,Q1,Q2,Q3,click,Introduction,Identify the 3 questions answered in the text.,Text organisation,Para5:Suggestion,Para 6:a way to testify,Para7:an exceptional reader,Read as little as possible,Para7:the reason,Leave a book alone for a few days and think intensely as you can,A
11、 vast majority of books overlap one another,Blaise Cendrars:Julius Caesar of literature,Jigsaw reading,Prediction,Jigsaw reading:Prediction,Read para1 and then discuss about your response toward the last sentence.,Ironic?,The fact,however,that in the past I did most of my work without the aid of a l
12、ibrary I look upon as an advantage rather than a disadvantage.,Contradictory?,Inexplicable?,Unreasonable?,Jigsaw reading:Prediction,Read the last sentence again and predict which statement the writer may support.,Read as little as possible,not as much as possible!,Statement 1,The more you read,the b
13、etter it would be!,Statement 2,Would You agree?,Were you the writer,how would you support it?,Jigsaw reading:task-oriented reading 1,Read paragraph2 and figure out the obstacles the writer encountered to obtain books.,Books always out at the public library,2.No money to buy books,3.Impossible to get
14、 demoralizing works,Do you have similar experience?How do you get books?,Jigsaw reading:task-oriented reading 2,Read paras 3-4 and figure out the reason(s)that make(s)a book live.,A book lives through the passionate recommendation of one reader to another.,Reason,Common:Readers cannot wait to share
15、their experience of reading with others.,Discuss your response toward this reason.,Agree,Too simple:The most important reason which makes a book live is the book itself.,Disagree,Jigsaw reading:task-oriented reading 3,Imagine you were the writer,how would you present your arguments?Then read para3-4
16、 again and check your answers.,Para4,Para3,click,click,Identify different ways to present arguments,click,Jigsaw reading:task-oriented reading 3,Figure out all the arguments with proofs or without proofs in Para 3.,Para 3A book lives through the passionate recommendation of one reader to another.Not
17、hing can throttle this basic impulse in the human being.Despite the views of cynics and misanthropes,it is my belief that men will always strive to share their deepest experiences.,Back,Jigsaw reading:task-oriented reading 3,Para 4Books are one of the few things men cherish deeply.The better the man
18、 the more easily will he part with his most cherished possessions.A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.Books represents infinitely more than money.A book is not only a friend,it makes friends for you.When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit,you are enriched.But when you pass
19、it on you are enriched threefold.,Figure out all the arguments with proofs or without proofs in Para 4.,Back,More,Jigsaw reading:task-oriented reading 3,Different ways applied to present arguments,Offering prerequisites(前提条件),A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.Despite the views of cyn
20、ics and misanthropes,it is my belief that men will always strive to share their deepest experiences.When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit,you are enriched.,Acknowledging partly the truthfulness of the other side(部分承认对方观点的正确性),When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit,you are
21、enriched.But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.,Jigsaw reading:task-oriented reading 3,Different ways applied to present arguments,Back,Avoiding saying sth.absolutely,Despite the views of cynics and misanthropes,it is my belief that men will always strive to share their deepest experien
22、ces.Books are one of the few things men cherish deeply.,Using nominalizations(名物化)frequently,A book lives through the passionate recommendation of one reader to another.Nothing can throttle this basic impulse in the human being.,Jigsaw reading:Reacting to arguments,Read the following statements give
23、n by the writer.1.Read as little as possible,not as much as possible.,click,Disagree,Does it seem to be unreasonable?Or is there any special meaning behind such a statement?,Boys:read para5 and 7 and interpret the reasonGirls:read para6 and identify the way to read,?,Do you agree or disagree?,click,
24、Reasons:I did not need to read even a tenth of what I have read Most of what I read is not important.The vast majority of books overlap one another.The way to read:,Jigsaw reading:reacting to arguments,Back,Why not important?,3 key words,Leave it alone,Think intensely,Observe,click,Jigsaw reading:re
25、acting to arguments,AgreeIt is true that the vast majority of books overlap one another.2.To read intensively is better than to read a lot without thinking much,Disagree1.The article is written 50 years ago,so it is quite different now.2.To read intensively and to read a lot are the two different wa
26、ys of reading which are incomparable.,Back,To show an opposite or different opinion,Read Para 7 again and see the example about Blaise Cendrars.,Is it contradictory to the writers argument?,Jigsaw reading:reacting to arguments,Quotations are used either to support or to show an opposite or different
27、 opinion.,More,The writer will often quote other people,either to support what they want to say or to show an opposite or different idea.In both cases the writer will need to make a comment on the quotation.,Comments on quotations,Is it contradictory to the writers argument?,click,In our days his ca
28、se is almost unparalleled,I imagine.He is,in a sense,the Julius Caesar of literature.,Comments,Jigsaw reading:reacting to arguments,click,Understanding the writers style 1,Pair work:Reread the text and identify the writing style of the text.,Narration?,Argumentation?,?,?,click,click,Understanding th
29、e writers style 1,Narration,Para 1:describes books in his roomPara 2:introduces his struggle for obtaining books.,Back,From the title and the book it is taken from The Books in My Life:It seems to be a narration telling the story how the books influence the writers life.,Understanding the writers st
30、yle 2,Argumentation,The writer shifts to argue for Para3-4:What makes a book live?Para5-7:Read as little as possible.,Back,Understanding the writers style 2,Group work:Compare active reading 1 and active reading 2 and vote for the following topics.,1.Do the passages have the same purpose?,To encoura
31、ge people to read,2.Which one is more personal?,AR2:personal experience of the writerAR1:academic,less personal,3.Which one is more about the pleasure of reading?,AR2,AR1,More,Understanding the writers style 2,Group work:Compare active reading 1 and active reading 2 and vote for the following topics
32、.,More,4.Which one makes you think more about the process of reading?,Both,AR1:reading process about fictionsAR1:reading process about non-fictions,5.Which one has a more effective title?,Danger:Hook and hold the readers attention,AR2,AR1,Has more of an air of mystery,Understanding the writers style
33、 2,6.Which one give best example?,7.Which one is more persuasive in the arguments?,Sufficient examples to support arguments,AR2,AR1,Fewer examples but more attractive,Home-run books,AR2,AR1,Not reading everything,Group work:Compare active reading 1 and active reading 2 and vote for the following top
34、ics.,Critical thinking,Group work:Each group chooses one topic for discussion.,click,click,1.Do you agree that probably“less than 50”books are unique?,2.Is any of the advice Miller offers useful?What advice would you give to encourage people to read?,More,Critical thinking,Pair work:Discuss the foll
35、owing questions with your partner.,click,click,3.How are reading for pleasure and reading for enlightenment different?,4.Miller wrote the passage more than 50 years ago.How do you think it would have been different if written today-if at all?,Critical thinking,AgreeFew seem to be truly original.Most
36、 may have something original,but probably only in details or a particular style,but not in terms of big ideas.,Q1:,agree or disagree?,DisagreeToo absolute There is a long list of original books in human history.What he said only can prove that he has not yet read those truly original books.,Back,Cri
37、tical thinking,Q2,Back,Useful adviceLeave the book alone for a few days,but think about it as intensely as you can.,SuggestionFind the subjects you really feel interested and choose an author you likeFollow Millers suggestion,It might discourage potential readers,so,Useful or not?,Critical thinking,
38、Q3,Back,Some read for fun without a serious purpose.,Some may read for enlightenment,not for pleasure,but for job or studies.,Different,but overlapping sometimes,Some may choose to read for pleasure,but meanwhile hope to find deeper ides or reflections about life,etc.,Critical thinking,Q4:,Todays wo
39、rldInformation eraMulti-media to deliver informationStudents major,Differently written1.Advise to select what readers need most2.Advise to choose the best way to get necessary information3.Advise to add non-fiction compulsory reading and how to approach it when readers have to read it,Back,Summary,T
40、alking points,Summary,Read the following sentences and arrange their order,then draw the summary in your words.,1,1.One of the first things I associate with the reading books is the struggle I waged to obtain them.2.I offer a piece of advice here:Read as little as possible.3.The vast majority of boo
41、ks overlap one another.4.Books live through the passionate recommendation of one reader to another.5.Like money,books must be kept in constant circulation.6.Leave a book alone for a few days and think as intensely as possible and then observe what extraordinary acumen you tackle it.,2,3,4,6,5,Summar
42、y,Henry Miller depicts the struggle he made to obtain books when he was young,and then introduces the reason that makes a book livethat is,the enthusiastic recommendation of one reader to another.In his eyes,books are one of the few things men cherished deeply,but if you lend it to others,it makes f
43、riends for you.He continues to suggest that the vast majority of books repeat what others say,so read as little as possible.He then advices such a way to test his suggestionthat is,leave a book alone,but think as intensely as possible and if you decide to read,observe with what extraordinary acumen
44、you read it and realize that very little of the books is really new to you.,Read the following summary and use the phrases from the text to replace the underlined words.,waged,passionate,possessions,overlap,tackle,Talking points,Group work:Each group chooses one quotation to discuss your comments,th
45、en answer the 3 questions.,A house without books is like a room without windows.,Heinrich Mann,If there is a book you really want to read but it hasnt been written yet,then you must write it.,Toni Morrison,A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.,Chinese Proverb,We read to know we are not alon
46、e.,C.S.Lewis,Talking points,Group report:Share your opinions for the following questions based on your discussion.1.Which quotation do you agree with most?,To encourage writers to write sth.they desire most,Toni Morrison,esp.for those who,think they have no talents have no time to write are reluctan
47、t to write,click,click,Talking points,2.Are there any which you dont agree with?,The meaning of the quotation:We read to find characters or writer who are like us so we feel that we are in good company and not alone.,C.S.Lewis,Our comments,A sad quotation:we have no friends except people in novels.I
48、f we are alone,we would much rather go and find some friends,click,click,Talking points,3.Are there any which have similar meanings?,The Heinrich Mann quote and the Chinese proverb,Heinrich Mann,Positive interpretation,Books enrich our lives and give us beautiful things to look at.,click,click,Negat
49、ive interpretation,The windows in a house do not always give a nice view and there are windows we really dont want to look out of.,click,Some gardens are not looked after and are full of weeds.,Difficult sentences,Words to note,Preview,Language in use,Information related,Difficult sentences,The fact
50、,however,that in the past I did most of my work without the aid of a library I look upon as an advantage rather than a disadvantage.(Para 1,L8 to the end)2.for I know of nothing better calculated to whet ones appetite than this stupid sort of classification and prohibition.(Para 2,L15 to the end)3.T
