Unit-9教案-Confessions-of-a-Miseducated-Man.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 7 Unit 9 Confessions of a Miseducated Man Teaching Aims: Students will be able to: 1) Knowledge and Skills Develop reading skills-understand the main idea，structure of the text， and the skills of reading for specific information-scanning; all but, not that…but that, rise to, wipe out, instruct sb. in, act on, respond to, etc. 2) Culture Learn about relationship and globalization and education; tribalism, regionalism, racism; cultural differences and similarities; common concerns and issues of human being 3) Emotion Be well aware of the similarities and differences in all kinds of cultures; Have a critical view of the ideas posed by the author towards “mis-educated” Warming-up Questions: --Understanding of the title 1. What is a confession? It’s a formal statement that you’ve done sth. wrong or illegal; It’s a private statement to a priest about the bad things you’ve done; 2. What’s the difference between being Miseducated and Uneducated? A miseducated person is one who has received formal education but is educated in a wrong way. An uneducated person is one who has received no formal school education. 3. How do you predict the topic of the essay? 4. How would you relate the issue of this essay to that of Another School Year—What For? and The Green Banana? About the Author—Norman Cousins (1915-1990) Some of his life history possibly related to the essay Born in New Jersey, educated in and graduated from Columbia Editor of Saturday Review for 35 yrs; Lifelong concerns include world peace, world governance, justice, human freedom, health, etc.; Proponent of world federalism and world government; What is world federalism? World Federalism means having democratically accountable political institutions to deal with issues at the most appropriate level, according to the principle of subsidiary. In the book, Cousins expanded his arguments for world federalism and for a world no longer based on the supremacy of nationalism and other superficial