ChallengingYourselfⅡ.ppt

Why do we study literature? It improves your language proficiency. It enriches your knowledge about the English culture. It helps you explore the nature of human beings. It gives you spiritual and psychological relief. How to study English literature? 1. Historical Development (Periods of English Literature) 2.Historical background 3.Characteristics of each period and individual writers and works (their themes, characters , plots, artistic features and so on) 4. Literary terms 5. Read the original, of different genres * * Why Do We Learn English Literature? Reading Do you like reading literature? Who is your favorite writer? Have you ever read English literature? Can you name any writers and their works? a part of video from Oliver Twist Oliver Twist is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. What literature works have you read? To be, or not to be: that is a question. --- Hamlet If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? --- Ode to the West Wind Tomorrow is another day. --- Gone with the Wind Some quotation from the classical literature works Why do you confide in me like this? What are you and she to me? You think that because Im poor and plain, I have no feelings? I promise you, if God had gifted me with wealth and beauty, I would make it as hard for you to leave me now as it is for me to leave you. But He did not. But my spirit can address yours, as if both have passed through the grave and stood before heaven equal. --- Jane Eyre What do you think about literature? In what ways are you influenced by it? Skim the text and complete the following outline. Part 1 (Para.1): Some parents and students think____________________________________________________________________________, but I think there are still ___