外研版（2019）高中英语选择性必修第三册 Unit6 Using language 同步课堂重点练.docxVIP

PAGE2 / NUMPAGES2 十分钟同步课堂专练 Unit 6 Nature in words Section B Using language (重点练) 一. 阅读理解 A blue whales heart is as big as a Volkswagen Beetle(大众甲壳虫), I told a group of wide-eyed, open-mouthed second-graders. It is so big that you could walk around inside of it. Then I asked a big question-Why does a blue whale have such a big heart?—and let the adventure begin. I was bringing SOLE to my classroom-the Self-Organized Learning Environment. My students began their investigations and, after 40 minutes, they shared their discoveries. Blue whales can call to each other over almost a thousand miles. said Heavenly. They need a big heart to talk to each other. They swim all over the world, said Kiara. So they need a big heart to be their motor. They swim together in pairs. said Amare. So they need huge hearts to care for each other. Yeah, said Isaac. Thats true. It takes a huge heart to care for somebody. Hmmm, I said. How can we have big hearts for each other instead of small hearts? Then the students made a list of it. I was teaching compassion—to model ways we can care for each other and other living things. This SOLE lesson took a beautiful turn when Amaze connected the heart of the blue whale to community and to caring. Perri Klass, in a brief essay for the New York Times titled Understanding How Children Develop Compassion, writes about the importance of modeling compassion to children so those things are part of their experience long before they know the word. Around my school, however, nine out of 10 families live in a destructive poverty that makes it difficult to model compassion, to nurture community and caring. My students often come to school knowing more about the survival of the fittest than the survival of the kindest. Yet here were my 7 and 8-year-olds working together in a community, talking about caring for each other and exploring ways we can have big hearts instead of small hearts for each other. On that day, the blue whale and the second-graders mod