高三下册英语《Module One Growing Pains Unit 2 Growing Up》精品课教案

高三下册英语《Module One Growing Pains Unit 2 Growing Up》精品课教案

Understand the internal and external logic/structure of parallelism;

Able to apply parallelism into two different specific contexts: advertisements and speeches.

Teaching Procedure:

Steps Activities Purposes Lead-in T asks SS questions regarding what was learned in the previous lesson on the contents of this text. To help SS review the contents of the text and its logical structure. Introduction of Parallelism T leads SS to discover parallel sentences with similar grammatical structure and their rhetorical function. To aid SS in exploring and discovering parallelism due to its marked and unique form. Discovery of the internal logic in Parallelism T invites SS to find the similarities and differences between parallel sentences, thus leading to the discovery of a potential pattern for each parallel structure. Then T asks SS to brainstorm more words to fit into each category in the potential pattern. To invite SS to find the unique pattern for a specific parallel structure. Discovery of the external logic in Parallelism T asks SS to find the role of parallelism in a whole paragraph. To help students realize how parallelism works to form a whole paragraph with other sentences. Group Work T divides SS into six teams of 4-5 people. Some teams work on a short advertisement with parallelism added, while the others on a speech with parallelism. To challenge students to apply what has learned in this lesson into practice. Homework Polish the language of your advertisements/speeches and write them out as a team.

Two Truths to Live By

The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. Life is a paradox: It teaches us to hold fast to its many gifts while it also orders us to give them up when the time comes.

Surely we ought to hold fast to life, for it is wonderful and full of beauty. Learn to marvel at the golden sunshine and appreciate the wonders of each day. Be thankful and learn to embrace each hour and seize each golden minute.

Hold fast to life ... but not so fast that you cannot let go. This is the second side of the coin: We must accept our losses, and learn how to let go.

At every stage of life we experience losses — and grow in the process. We begin our independent lives only when we are born and lose Mother’s protective shelter. We enter one school after another, and then we leave our parents and our childhood homes. We get married and have children and then have to let go of them. Someday we will grow old and the tasks that are yet to be fulfilled will be passed on to our children.

However, why should life’s puzzling demands be followed? Why fashion things of beauty when beauty is bound to leave us? Why give our heart in love when those we love will eventually be torn from our grasp?

In order to resolve this puzzle, we must seek a wider view — though our lives are limited, our deeds on earth weaves a timeless pattern.

Life is never just being. It is a becoming, a flowing on. Our parents live on through us, and we will live on through our children. The institutions we build endure, and we will endure through them. The beauty we fashion cannot be dimmed by death. Our hands will grow old, but that which they create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on.

Don’t spend and waste your lives gathering objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. Pray not for the material but for wisdom, for wisdom alone invests life with meaning and is of enduring worth.

Add love to a house and you have a home. Add fairness to a city and you have a community. Add truth to a pile of red bricks and you have a school. Add justice to the human attempt and you have civilization. Put them all together, go beyond their present imperfections, you have a future lighted with the glorious colours of hope.