The_Bluest_Eye_教案.doc

Title: The Bluest Eye ----------Toni Morrison Teaching Aims: The teaching of this lesson aims to enable students to master: 1 20 key words and about 100 other new words 2 20 key phrases and their translations 3 the way of analyzing the usage of metaphor in this lesson 4 the way of dividing the lesson 5 the skills of translation in ten sentences 6 the main idea stated by the author The teaching of this lesson is divided into five parts Part One: Background Information(in one period) In this part, the teacher and the students are working together to offer as much information as possible in one period. Information comes in all directions. In this way , views of the students can be broadened and versions of the world can be easily seen. We follow two procedures: I: The teacher gives a brief introduction about the background information and guides the students to the text by asking some questions. Toni Morrison was born in Ohio in 1931. This text is taken from her first novel The Bluest Eye (1970). This novel is divided into four parts which were named after four seasons: autumn( she went into the society with a wish that she would have the bluest eyes some day; winter(she was suffering parents’ beating, classmates’ scorn and adults’ coldness and was raped by her father); spring(she was pregnant); summer( she gave birth to a baby who was dead when she was 13). In the end she went into insanity. Seasons----nature----law----inevitable Desire for the bluest eye: symbolize black people’s confusion and dislocation of values when their own culture are restrained and restricted. Centre on eye : symbolize how black people observe and perceive the white people’s world Her longing for eye: symbolize that she wanted to accept white people’s culture and wanted to observe the world with their eyes Her theme: history, destiny and spirit, or mental world The people in today’s lesson :Louis and his wife, Geraldine with a son named Junior, Pecola II: Some students are asked to introduc