While Reading tasks(90 minutes) 4. Skimming(10 minutes) Ask students to skim the text quickly to get the main idea of the text Reading the text carefully to get information and find the answer to the following questions.(15 minutes) Questions for the second reading: Who was George Washington? 1. Who was abraham Lincoln? 2. Why is Jefferson less famous than Washington and Lincoln? 3. How much do you know about the Declaration of Independence? 4. What does the sentence "Many of his ideas are especially interesting to modern youth Line 14-20 1. What is the definition of a free man in this context? Wh 3. What is personal investigation? 4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of personal investigation? 5. What was the committee asked to find out? 6. How was jefferson different from the other members of the committee? 7. Did he do it single-handed? How do you know? 8. Why is this lesson interesting to the contemporary youth? Line 21-28 1. Do we have sayings in China, too, which are similar in meaning to" You can learn from everyone"? What are they? 2. What is“ social class”? 3. What's the meaning of "By birth and by education Jefferson belonged to the highest 4. Who were "those of humble origins " Why didn 't noble persons speak to those of humble origins except to give an order? 6. Who was Lafayette? 7. Do you know about the“" French Revolution”? 8. Why could going into the people's homes help to understand the French Revolution? 9. What is the meaning of this lesson in modern society? L 1. How do you understand"Neither believe nor reject anything because any other person has rejected or believed it10 While Reading tasks (90 minutes) 4. Skimming (10 minutes) Ask students to skim the text quickly to get the main idea of the text 2. Reading the text carefully to get information and find the answer to the following questions. (15 minutes) Questions for the second reading: Line 1-13: Who was George Washington? 1. Who was Abraham Lincoln? 2. Why is Jefferson less famous than Washington and Lincoln? 3. How much do you know about the Declaration of Independence? 4. What does the sentence “Many of his ideas are especially interesting to modern youth” mean? Line 14-20: 1. What is the definition of a free man in this context? 2. What are the sources of knowledge? 3. What is personal investigation? 4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of personal investigation? 5. What was the committee asked to find out? 6. How was Jefferson different from the other members of the committee? 7. Did he do it single-handed? How do you know? 8. Why is this lesson interesting to the contemporary youth? Line 21-28: 1. Do we have sayings in China, too, which are similar in meaning to “You can learn from everyone”? What are they? 2. What is “social class”? 3. What’s the meaning of “By birth and by education Jefferson belonged to the highest social class”? 4. Who were “those of humble origins”? 5. Why didn’t noble persons speak to those of humble origins except to give an order? 6. Who was Lafayette? 7. Do you know about the “French Revolution”? 8. Why could going into the people’s homes help to understand the French Revolution? 9. What is the meaning of this lesson in modern society? Line 29-37: 1. How do you understand “Neither believe nor reject anything because any other person has rejected or believed it