1、陈伟彬手机:13695018704QQ:381808506第1页Who are you and what are you doing here?Mark Edmundson第2页Warm upWhat do you expect of the title?What would you like to write about if you are given this title to write an essay?第3页Structure of the textPart I(Paras.1-2)Part II(Paras.3-4)Part III(Paras.5-7)Part IV(Paras
2、.8-18)Part V(Paras.19-23)Part VI(Paras.24-29)Part VII(Paras.30-34)Part VIII(Paras.35-38)Part IX(Paras.39-40)第4页Part I(Paras.1-2)Q 1:“You are to be commended”?Q 2:Raising a child effectively takes a village?How about in China?Q 3:To win a place in the entering class has taken a lot of grit on your pa
3、rt?Q 4:what is the authors tone in this part?第5页Part II(Paras.3-4)Q 1:Is the author disappointed with all American universities?Q 2:So why cant the students just go on as before,work hard,listen to the teachers,and so on?Q 3:The speaker asks the students to fight,but fight what?Fight who?第6页Part III
4、(Paras.5-7)What is his fathers reaction to the authors plan to major in law in college?How about your parents opinions towards your major?What a university education should be?第7页Part IV(Paras.8-18)Students problems?Facultys problems?Administrators problems?第8页Students want the credentials that will
5、 help them get ahead?How about Chinese students?To be poor in America is to be a failure?How about in China?Do you find the problems mentioned in para.9 existing in Jimei University?第9页The faculty aim to get on?Do you know the evaluating system of faculty in a university?What do you think a universi
6、ty teacher should focus on?Teaching the students or publishing academic works?Do you find the problems mentioned in para.12 existing in Jimei University?Any solution to the problems?第10页Why do the administrators fear the students?Cheating is common?Why do students cheat?Any solution to the problem?第
7、11页Part V(Paras.19-23)What is Brodheads idea about the aim of university education?What is the authors opinion?How do you understand para.23?“So why make trouble?Why not just go along”?第12页Part VI(Paras.24-29)The quest at the centre of a liberal arts education is not a luxury quest but a necessity q
8、uest?Do you agree?Who are you?Peoples influence on your values?Your parents,friends,teachers,?Do you know Schopenhauer,Edmund Burke?Why are they mentioned in this part?第13页Part VII(Paras.30-34)“You may not have read yourself right,and college is the place where you can find out whether you have or n
9、ot”?Do you agree?What is the reason to read liberal works,such as those written by Blake,Dickinson,Freud and Dickens?What is the“alienated majesty”?Have you ever felt it?What has the author learnt from Emerson and Freud respectively?第14页Part VIII(Paras.35-38)What attitude should the students hold to
10、wards those famous writers?What are the students expected to do if they want to get a real university education?第15页Part IX(Paras.39-40)How do you understand para.40?Do you agree with the authors idea about college education mentioned at the end of this essay?第16页Assignment 1Presentation in EnglishC
11、hoose one of the following topics:1.中国大学建筑与文化中国大学建筑与文化 2.中国学霸中国学霸3.我眼里老师们(幼稚园、小学、中学、大学)我眼里老师们(幼稚园、小学、中学、大学)4.象牙塔中生活:成长与烦恼象牙塔中生活:成长与烦恼5.反思:我大学生活是不是梦想中生活反思:我大学生活是不是梦想中生活6.大学里财富(上大学,要学会什么,为谁而学,大学里财富(上大学,要学会什么,为谁而学,为何而学?)为何而学?)7.大学里奇闻轶事大学里奇闻轶事8.大学之美大学之美9.(美国、英国、中国名校)大学校训(美国、英国、中国名校)大学校训 10.老师教过我什么?读书至今最
12、深刻回想。老师教过我什么?读书至今最深刻回想。第17页RequirementsGroup work of 4 StudentsYou are to make the presentation on Thursday of Week 2Everyone should participate in and contribute to the presentation.But you may choose one member as the representative to do the presentation.You can use pictures,videos,clips from fil
13、ms or a television program.Time duration for each group:5-10 ms.第18页Assignment 2Write an essay about one of the following topics of at least 400 words:1.Watch the BBC documentary“Are Our Kids Tough Enough?”(“中国式教学”),and comment on the merits and the problems of the education systems of both the two
14、countries shown in it.2.Your opinion on the problems of college education in China第19页RequirementsGo to http:/www.pigai.org/index.php?c=teacher&a=createv2 and write down your essay there.第一个题目作文号:482680,Reflection over the BBC Documentary.第二个题目作文号:482682 My View on the Problems of College Education
15、in China.You can revise your essay as many times as you like and you have to print the one you are satisfied with and hand in it to me before the National Day Holiday.第20页Assignment 3Reading workshop:You are required to finish reading the given section of Frankenstein written by Mary Shelly and you
16、will be asked to summarize it and answer some related questions in each Thursday Class.And you are to do the presentation on the topics given to you in week 12(Students will be divided into groups)Week 3:Preface and Chapters 1&2Week 4:Chapters 3-5Week 5:Chapters 6-8Week 6:Chapters 9-12Week 7:Chapters 13-16Week 8:Chapters 17-20Week 9:Chapters 21-the endWeeks 10-11:Preparation for presentation in week 12第21页