Teaching Plan Book three Unit Five Section A Graceful hands. Warm-up Questions and Introductory Remarks 1 )What does the title"Graceful hands" remind you of at first sight? 2)How did the woman die? Everybody knows that birth and death are both natural events. But due to different motional impact and the personal meaning, birth is usually anticipated with excitement and joy while the reality of death is often avoided as best one can. Since death is a normal and natural stage of life, people, especially some terminally ill patients have the right to choose their way of death Writing skill A dominant impression supported by details. Look at the sample composition on page 137 Assignment Every large city has its shifting population of vagrants. But in most cases these are men, usually with an unhealthy appetite for alcohol. Only New York, it seems, attracts this peculiar populace of lone and homeless women who live in an isolated mistrustful world of their own Shopping-bag ladies do not drink. They do not huddle together for warmth and companionship like bums. They do not seem to like one another very much. Neither are they too keen on conventional people. Urban hermits, one sociolog ist has called them. They will spend their days and nights in the same neighborhood for months on end, then disappear as inexplicably as they came. They know the hours when restaurants put their leftovers in the garbage cans where they search for food. And local residents, seeing the same bag lady on the same corner every day, will slip her some change as they pass Shopping-bag lad ies do not overtly beg, but they do not refuse what is offered Once a shopping-bag lady becomes a figure of your neighborhood, it is as hard to pass her by without giving her some money as it is to ignore the collection box in church And although you may not like it, if she chooses your doorway as her place to sleep in the night, it is as morally hard to turn her away as it is a lost dog Text Structure Analysis In narrative, it is common to write accord ing to a chronological order--listing events just according to the time sequence. This kind of writing is much used in brief biographical and autobiographical sketches, and in telling stories. For this reading1 Teaching Plan Book Three Unit Five Section A Graceful hands. Warm-up Questions and Introductory Remarks 1)What does the title “Graceful hands” remind you of at first sight? 2)How did the woman die? Everybody knows that birth and death are both natural events. But due to different emotional impact and the personal meaning, birth is usually anticipated with excitement and joy while the reality of death is often avoided as best one can. Since death is a normal and natural stage of life, people, especially some terminally ill patients have the right to choose their way of death. Writing Skill A dominant impression supported by details. Look at the sample composition on page 137 Assignment: Every large city has its shifting population of vagrants. But in most cases these are men, usually with an unhealthy appetite for alcohol. Only New York, it seems, attracts this peculiar populace of lone and homeless women who live in an isolated, mistrustful world of their own.. Shopping-bag ladies do not drink. They do not huddle together for warmth and companionship like bums. They do not seem to like one another very much. Neither are they too keen on conventional people. Urban hermits, one sociologist has called them . They will spend their days and nights in the same neighborhood for months on end, then disappear as inexplicably as they came. They know the hours when restaurants put their leftovers in the garbage cans where they search for food. And local residents, seeing the same bag lady on the same corner every day, will slip her some change as they pass. Shopping-bag ladies do not overtly beg, but they do not refuse what is offered. Once a shopping-bag lady becomes a figure of your neighborhood, it is as hard to pass her by without giving her some money as it is to ignore the collection box in church.. And although you may not like it ,if she chooses your doorway as her place to sleep in the night , it is as morally hard to turn her away as it is a lost dog. Text Structure Analysis In narrative, it is common to write according to a chronological order—listing events just according to the time sequence. This kind of writing is much used in brief biographical and autobiographical sketches, and in telling stories. For this reading