Unit 10 Two Truths to Live By
Unit 10 Two Truths to Live By
I.Teaching Aims: To get the students know the style of an exposition. To have the students understand the satirical words and sentences used in the essay. To get students grasp the key words and sentences structures
I. Teaching Aims: ◼ To get the students know the style of an exposition. ◼ To have the students understand the satirical words and sentences used in the essay. ◼ To get students grasp the key words and sentences structures
II.Teaching Importance and Difficulties: Understand the author's main purpose of writing the essay. Know the writing strategies of the text. Grasp the key language points in the text. III.Teaching periods:6 periods
II. Teaching Importance and Difficulties: ◼ Understand the author’s main purpose of writing the essay. ◼ Know the writing strategies of the text. ◼ Grasp the key language points in the text. III. Teaching periods: 6 periods
IV.Teaching steps: 1.Warm-up Questions: What is your motto in life?Explain it. Do you find life sometimes paradoxical?Why or why not? People differ in their opinion about the art of living.What do you think of it?
IV. Teaching steps: 1. Warm-up Questions: ◼ What is your motto in life? Explain it. ◼ Do you find life sometimes paradoxical? Why or why not? ◼ People differ in their opinion about the art of living. What do you think of it?
2.Information related to the text: 1)The author:Rabbi Alexander M.Schindler (1925-2000) NOVEMBER 15,2000-Rabbi Alexander M.Schindler,one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the last half of the 20th century, died of a heart attack early Wednesday morning at his home in Westport,Connecticut.He was 75. The immediate past president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations,Rabbi Schindler served as President of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and Vice President of the World Jewish Congress at the time of his death. As President of the UAHC from 1973 to 1996,Reform Judaism's main governing body,Rabbi Schindler built the movement into one of the most vigorous forces in American religious life.He was renowned for his unrelenting commitment to issues of peace,social justice,and equality
2. Information related to the text: 1) The author: Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler（1925——2000） NOVEMBER 15, 2000 - Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the last half of the 20th century, died of a heart attack early Wednesday morning at his home in Westport, Connecticut. He was 75. The immediate past president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Rabbi Schindler served as President of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and Vice President of the World Jewish Congress at the time of his death. As President of the UAHC from 1973 to 1996, Reform Judaism's main governing body, Rabbi Schindler built the movement into one of the most vigorous forces in American religious life. He was renowned for his unrelenting commitment to issues of peace, social justice, and equality
2)The text:This essay discusses one of the paradoxes in life::“to let something go'”and“to hold something fast."The author tries to explain in the importance of cherishing beauty when it is offered and to let it go when it is inevitable. Thus“to let it go”is as important as“to hold fast" in our lives
2) The text: This essay discusses one of the paradoxes in life: “to let something go” and “ to hold something fast.” The author tries to explain in the importance of cherishing beauty when it is offered and to let it go when it is inevitable. Thus “to let it go” is as important as “to hold fast” in our lives
Paragraph 1 The theme of the essay is explicitly stated in the first sentence.The author points out that life itself is a paradox:We should cling to its gifts and let go of them in time,which is explained by the rabbis' statement of analogy. 1)"paradox"-a situation which is strange because it involves two qualities that could not be true at the same time.Here,the author means that you need to hold fast to some-thing that you must let go of eventually. 2)"The rabbis of old"-the rabbis in ancient times. e.g.the knights of old in England
Paragraph 1 The theme of the essay is explicitly stated in the first sentence. The author points out that life itself is a paradox: We should cling to its gifts and let go of them in time, which is explained by the rabbis' statement of analogy. 1) "paradox"-a situation which is strange because it involves two qualities that could not be true at the same time. Here, the author means that you need to hold fast to some- thing that you must let go of eventually. 2) "The rabbis of old"-the rabbis in ancient times. e. g. the knights of old in England
QUESTION Why does the author quote the saying from the ancient rabbis? The author intends to use the metaphor to illustrate the paradox."A man comes to this world with his fist clenched"means that a man holds fast to the gift of life when he is born,but when he leaves this world,he has to let go of it
QUESTION Why does the author quote the saying from the ancient rabbis? The author intends to use the metaphor to illustrate the paradox. "A man comes to this world with his fist clenched" means that a man holds fast to the gift of life when he is born, but when he leaves this world, he has to let go of it
Language points 1. For life is a paradox:it erjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment. -For life is a paradox:On one side,it encourages us to bold on to all those beautiful things life can offer us,on the other side,it commands us to let all of them go in the end
1. For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment. -For life is a paradox: On one side, it encourages us to hold on to all those beautiful things life can offer us, on the other side, it commands us to let all of them go in the end. Language points
enjoin The proposed law erjoins employers to give workers time off to care for sick children and ageing parents. He erjoined caution about believing what they told us
enjoin ◼ The proposed law enjoins employers to give workers time off to care for sick children and ageing parents. ◼ He enjoined caution about believing what they told us