高三英语教案 Unit 10 American literature (详细教案)

Introduce some information about the writer. Get the information on the Internet.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/randall/life.htm
Or give the Ss a reading material about Dudley Randall, do a fast reading with several sentences to decide True or False.
Poet, publisher, editor, and founder of Broadside Press. Dudley Randall was born 14 January 1914 in Washington, D.C. His first published poem appeared in the Detroit Free Press when he was thirteen. Randall worked in the post office while earning degrees in English and library science (1949 and 1951).for the next five years he was librarian at Morgan State and Lincoln(Mo.) universities, returning to Detroit in 1956 to a position in the Wayne County Federated Librarian and poet in residence at the University of Detroit, retiring in 1974.
When “Ballad of Birmingham,” written in response to the 1963 bombing of a church in which four girls were killed, was set to music and recorded, Randall established Broadside Press in 1965, printing the poem on a single sheet to protect his rights. Following the 1967 riot in Detroit, Randall published Cities Burning(1968),a group of thirteen poems. In all his life, he was regarded as a pioneer in independent African American book publishing and he is sure to be remembered for his poems as well.
( )1.Dudley Randall was a British poet and he liked to write for blacks.
( )2.When he was fifteen, his first poem appeared in the Detroit Free Press.
( )3.His family was rich enough so that he didn’t have to work as a librarian while he was studying English degree in college.
( )4. “Ballad of Birmingham” was written in response to the 1963 bombing of a church in which four girls were killed.
( )5.Dudley Randall was thought to be both a great publisher and an outstanding poet.
Deal with some key words: kings and queens, the common people, pigs, the Old Country .
What’s the theme of the poem?
T: After class,try to read some other poems of Dudley Randall. E.g: Ballad of Birmingham
Step 6 Discussion
T: Slavery is one of the major themes in literature of America. Think about the history and life in the United States. What special themes and sort of stories would you expect to find in American literature?
Look at the pictures and guess what theme each of them would be about.
Can you name some famous writers and their works?
Get the students to have a short discussion and try to report their answers.
Step 7 Summary and Homework
T: In this class, we’ve done some listening and read a poem. We’ve also talked about the magor themes in literature of America.
Try to find some good English poems or some short stories and share with your classmates next period.
Try to find as much information as you can about O Henry.
So much for today .Goodbye, everyone!

Period 2

Teaching objectives:
1. To enjoy O.Henry’s classical works.
2. To learn how to read short stories
To retell the story in their own words.
To learn some new words and phrases
To train the students’ reading strategies, such as skimming, scanning, summarizing.
Teaching Important Points:
1. To train the students’ reading strategies, such as skimming, scanning, summarizing.
2. Enable the students to understand the story and try to retell it.
3. How to get the students to master the useful expressions.
Teaching Difficult Points:
Retell the story in the very period.
Teaching Methods:
1. Fast reading to get the general idea of the text.
2. Questioning-and-answering activity to help the students go through the whole passage.
4. Pair work or individual work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
1. A tape recorder
2. A multimedia
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1.Revision
1.Get the students to share their findings, such as short poems, stroies.
2. Guide the students to get to know some famous American writers and their works by matching the books with the writers.
The Adventure of Tom Sawyer ---- Mark Twain
The Beast in the Jungle ----Henry James
A Farewell to Arms ----- Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea ----- Ernest Hemingway
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ----Mark Twain
The Gift of the Magi ---- O Henry
The Call of the Wild ----Jack London
The Scarlet Letter ---- Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. What do you know about O Henry?(consult Appendix III)
Step 2. Scanning
T: The gift of the Magi is retitled by the editor as A Sacrifice for Love. After reading the story, you will know the reason.
Read the passage and try to answer the questions:
Who are the main characters in the story?
What’s the relationship between them?
What are Jim’s wages?
What kind of flat do they live?
Were they rich? Find the sentences to support your ideas.
What are the couple’s two most precious possessions?
What price does Della pay to buy her present?
How does she get the money?
Does Della think having a haircut will make Jim happy? How do you know?
Step 3. Predicting
What do you think will happen?
Get the students to use their imagination and guess the ending of the story.
Step 4 Reading
Read the second part of the story with the question: What was Jim’s reaction when he saw Della?

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