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Unit 2 Morals and Virtues
Period 4 Reading for Writing教学设计
The topic of this part is “Share your opinions about a moral story”.
This section focuses on the social responsibility. This reading is a fable A Stone on the Road, which is rich in the educational functions and profound meanings. So students not only should be guided to learn its superficial meaning, but understand its inner meaning. Then students should be asked to write comments about the story, which aims at making them analyzing the story from the outer to the inner, understanding the author’s views correctly and expressing their own feelings and opinions by organizing proper language.
Concretely, the fable tells that to detect his people’s attitudes to problems, a king put a large stone in the middle of the main street and hid gold coins under the stone. Then he hid and watched people’s response to the stone. Although the stone led to much inconvenience, even complaint, no one was reluctant to remove the stone. At last, an honest young girl had it removed, who got the king’s gold coins and praise. In the reading, the speeches like personification, metaphor and symbol are used to uncover the educational theme and profound meanings.
1. Read quickly to get main idea; read carefully to get the detailed information about the fable.
- Learn the structure of the reading article and language.
- Learn to correct others’ comments.
1. Write a story comment.
- Use the structure of the reading article and language.
Step 1 Lead in ---Small talk
In our traditional culture, there are a lot of good morals and virtues. Can you list some ?diligence/hard-working; obliging/be ready to help others; perseverance/toughness; thrift/economic
Do you know some fables or stories about them?Yu Gong Moved the Mountains Hou Yi shot the Sun
Step 2 While reading ---Task 1
Read the fable and answer the following questions:
Q1: What does the fable tell us ?It tells us not to ignore and complain about the problems we meet, but to solve it positively.
Q2: What was the king’s idea for teaching an important lesson to his people ?He put a huge stone in the middle of a street, and watched to see if anyone would move it.
Q3: What was the response from most of the people?They just became angry or upset because the stone was in their way.
Q4: What did the young girl think and do when she saw the coins ?She thought that the money belonged to someone else and that it should be returned.
Step 3 While reading ---Task 2
This story presented different people’s emotions and responses when they came across the same problem. Complete the table according to the story.
person
| experience
| emotion
| response
| milkman
| crashed into the stone
| angry
| went away
| woman with water
| tripped over the stone
| sad
| limped away in tears
| other villagers
| complained about the stone
| upset
| nobody made an attempt to move the stone
| young girl
| succeeded in moving the stone to the side of the street.
| tired, surprised
| wanted to find the owner of the gold.
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Step 4 Post reading---Pair work
Q1: What do you think this fable is trying to tell us?
It is trying tell us that we should all take responsibility for our community, society and country.
Q2: Was the king wise ? Why or why not ?
Yes, he was. Because as a ruler, he should pay attention to his people’s morals and virtues. Only having good morals and virtues could make his people live with each other in harmony, and his country may be in control and prosperity.
No, he wasn’t. Because no one learnt anything from his experiment. In the text, the milkman, the woman with water, the other villagers ignored and even complained about the stone and continued their journey. It seemed that the social responsibility of the majority is too little just because they are busy with their own things.
Q3: Can you list similar things in your life when you felt and acted like the girl or like the other people in the story?
I recently saw some children playing on a dangerous balcony, and so I warned them it was dangerous and had them go somewhere else to play. However, often I’m more like the milkman in the story because I’m very busy with my own work and worries.
Step 5 Writing ---The Outline
Para 1Basic information about the storyWhat is the title of the story ?What kind of story is it ?What is the main idea of the story ?
What is the main idea of the story ?Were the details of the story clear ?Do you think the story achieved its purpose ?Para 2Analysis of the story
Para 3Your opinion about the storyWhat did you like about the story ?What did you not like about the story ?Would you recommend this story to others ?
Step 6 Writing---Words and phrases1. 寓言 fable2. 等着作某事 wait to do sth/wait for doing sth3. 负责任 take responsibility for/be responsible for4. 成功作某事 succeed in doing sth/be successful in doing sth5. 因...让人印象深刻 have a deep impression on/upon/impress on/upon with sth6. 目的 purpose7. 鉴于这一原因 for the reason
Step 6 Writing---make sentences1. 这个寓言是一个关于一位国王古寓言。 The fable is an old fable about a king.2.作者用这个故事让读者对于社区的问题负有个人责任的必要印象深刻。 The author used the story to impress upon readers with the need to take personal responsibility for problems in the community.3. 这个故事十分成功的实现了它的目的。The story was quite successful in achieving its purpose.
Step 7 WritingPlease write a review of the story according the outline above.
The fable is an old fable about a king who thought his people are lazy, so he put a large stone in the middle of the road and hides and waited to see if anyone will try to move it.
The author used this story to impress upon readers with the need to take personal responsibility for problems in the community. The story was quite successful in achieving its purpose, and I liked it because it had a clear moral.
However, while the moral of the story is clear, the actions of the king seemed pointless to me, because none of the characters in the story learnt anything. For this reason, I think there are better stories that can be used to impress upon people with the need for personal responsibility.
Step 8 Pair work
Exchange drafts with a partner. Use this checklist to help your partner revise his/her draft.
- Does the writer give a short description of the story ?
- Does the description include the most important details of the story ?
- Does the writer give his or her opinion about the character or their actions ?
- Is the review well-organised ?
- Does the writer use the -ing form as the adverbial correctly in the writing ?
- Are there any grammar, spelling, or punctuation errors ?
Step 9 Homework
Put up your revised draft in the classroom or read it to your class.
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