高级英语精品课程教案——TheLoons.doc

Lesson 12 The Loons Objectives of Teaching 1) Improving students’ ability to read between lines and understand the text properly;2) Cultivating students’ ability to make a creative reading;3) Enhancing students’ ability to appreciate the text 4) Helping students to understanding rhetorical devices;5)Encouraging students to voice their own viewpoint fluently and accurately. Important and difficult points 1)understanding the theme of this passage; 2)appreciating the writing style. I. Background information about the author: Margaret Laurence is one of the major contemporary Canadian writers. After her marriage, she lived in Africa for a number of years. Her works include A Tree of Poverty(1954), This Side of Jordan(1960), The Tomorrow-Tamer (1963), The Prophet’s Camel Bell(1963), The Stone Angel(1964) and The Fire Dwellers (1969), A Bird in the House (1970), The Diveners (1974). II. Type of writing: short fiction “The Loons” (1970) is included in the Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, 2nd ed., 1981. III. Background of the story: This touching story tells of the plight of a girl from a native Indian family. Her people were marginalized by the white-dominating society. They were unable to exist independently in a respectable and dignified way. They found it impossible to fit into the main currents of culture and difficult to be assimilated comfortably. At school, the girl felt out of place and ill at ease with the white children. When she had grown up she didn’t have any chance to improve her life. In fact her situation became more and more messed up. In the end she was killed in a fire. IV. Detailed study of the text 1. shack: a small roughly built house, hut 2. dwelling: n (fml) place of residence; house, flat, etc Eg: my dwelling in Kaifeng dwelling-house(esp. law): house used as a residence, not as a place of work 3. belong: to be suitable or advantageous, be in the right place eg: I dont belong in a big city like this. He doesnt belong in the advanced le