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1、Letter to a B StudentRead aloud Audiovisual supplementsSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Two:Global ReadingSection Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementI.Read aloudRead the following passage aloud,making a pause between sense groups.1-1.1Section Three:Detailed Readin

2、g Principles Are LighthousesBy Stephen R.CoveyIt was a dark and stormy night./The officer on the bridge/came to the captain and said,/“Captain,/Captain,/there is a light in our sea lane/and they wont move.”/“What do you mean they wont move?/Tell them to move./Tell them starboard right now.”/The sign

3、al was sent out,/“Starboard,/starboard./”The signal came back,/“Starboard yourself.”/“I cant believe this./Whats going on here?/Let them know who I am./”The signal was sent out,/“This is the mighty Missouri,/starboard./”The signal came back,/“This is the lighthouse.”/Letter to a B StudentRead aloud

4、Audiovisual supplementsSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Two:Global ReadingSection Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further Enhancement1-1.2Section Three:Detailed Reading My friends,/correct principles are lighthouses,/they do not move./They are natural laws./We cannot break them./

5、We can only break ourselves against them./We might as well learn them,/accommodate them,/utilize them and be grateful for them./Then it enlarges us/and emancipates us/and empowers us./T.S.Eliot once said something/I think is appropriate/as we come to the conclusion of our visit together./He said,/“W

6、e shall never cease from striving,/and the end of all of our striving/will be to arrive where we began/and to know the place for the first time.”/Read aloud Audiovisual supplementsSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesII.Audiovisual supplementsQuestions:1.Whats Ricky describing?2.Do you think it is a ki

7、nd of beauty?Why？Film episode:American BeautyAnswers for reference:1.He is describing a kind of beauty a plastic bag dancing in the wind.2.Open answer.1-2.1Section Three:Detailed ReadingSection Two:Global ReadingLetter to a B Student Section Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further Enhance

8、mentRead aloud Audiovisual supplementsSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesRicky:It was one of those days where its a minute away from snowing,and there was this electricity in the air.You can almost hear it.Right?And this bag was just dancing.with me,like a little kid begging me to play with it,for 15

9、 minutes.Thats the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know that there was no reason to be afraid.ever.Videos a poor excuse,I know,but it helps me remember.I need to remember.Sometimes theres so much beauty in the world.

10、I feel like I cant take it and my heart is just going to cave in.1-2-2Section Three:Detailed ReadingSection Two:Global ReadingLetter to a B Student Section Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementRead aloud Audiovisual supplementsSection One:Pre-reading Activities1-2-FILMSectio

11、n Three:Detailed ReadingSection Two:Global ReadingLetter to a B Student Section Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementText analysis Structural analysisSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Two:Global Reading2-1Cultural backgroundThe text is a letter to a B student.In the

12、letter the author analyzes what the grade means and doesnt mean,and tells the student the way we should regard grades.In the end the author illustrates the importance of learning and gives encouragement to the student.I.Text analysisSection Three:Detailed ReadingLetter to a B Student Section Four:Co

13、nsolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementText analysis Structural analysisSection Two:Global Reading2-2-1Cultural backgroundII.Structural analysis Section Three:Detailed ReadingSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesLetter to a B Student Section Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Fu

14、rther EnhancementParagraphs 2 5purpose of writing:to put your disappointment in perspective by considering exactly what your grade means and doesnt meanParagraph 1introduction Paragraphs 6 8distinction between the student as a performer in the classroom and the student as a human being Paragraphs 9

15、10perspective:the way we should regard gradesText analysis Structural analysisSection Two:Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading2-3-1Cultural backgroundIII.Cultural backgroundAmerican Education System versus Asian Education SystemAmerica is the land of opportunity,which is famous for its democ

16、ratic society and unique culture.People in America like to be free,to do whatever they want to do without any restrictions.This belief is reflected in the American educational system.In American schools,teachers and students are at the same social level.Students are encouraged to exchange their own

17、opinions with the teacher.From an early age,students in the American educational system have been taught that they have the ability to achieve whatever they want to be,but rarely been told how they can achieve their goal.Because of this belief in natural born ability in the land of opportunity,stude

18、nts receive very little pressure in school,so whatever they do in school is totally based on their personal beliefs.The advantage of this kind of educational system is that,it really develops students individualSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesLetter to a B Student Section Four:Consolidation Activi

19、ties Section Five:Further EnhancementText analysis Structural analysisSection Two:Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading2-3-2Cultural backgroundSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesLetter to a B Student Section Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementIn Asian countries,the c

20、ultures and social standards are totally different from the U.S.In those countries most of their values are based on Confucius which heavily stresses education and group values.Ones social status is based on his/her education level.Starting from elementary school,students have been taught that if yo

21、u want to be successful in life you must have a good education,and any other way is considered inappropriate.In the Asian school systems,educators rank students by their scores.So,if your rank is high you are a good student and you will have a good chance to get into a good school.If your rank is lo

22、w then you are a bad student and it is a sign that you are going to be a loser.Nobody cares if you are talented or not.Under these pressures,students compete hard with other students.They study five hours a day just trying to gain morethinking skills,and they are encouraged to try out different opti

23、ons to achieve their goal.Text analysis Structural analysisSection Two:Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading2-3-3Cultural backgroundSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesLetter to a B Student Section Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further Enhancementpoints in a test so they can get a

24、higher rank.Through these efforts of setting high standards its no surprise that Asian students rank top in the academic achievement.The advantage of this kind of system is that the school systems can provide the society year after year with high quality personnel of the same academic standard.Lette

25、r to a B StudentSection Two:Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading3.text1-SSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementYour final grade for the course is B.A respectable grade.Far superior to the“Gentlemans C”that served as the norm a

26、 couple of generations ago.But in those days As were rare:only two out of twenty-five,as I recall.Whatever our norm is,it has shifted upward,with the result that you are probably disappointed at not doing better.Im certain that nothing I can say will remove that feeling of disappointment,particularl

27、y in a climate where grades determine eligibility for graduate school and special programs.Letter to a B StudentRobert Oliphant Letter to a B StudentSection Two:Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading3.text2-SSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:F

28、urther EnhancementDisappointment.Its the stuff bad dreams are made of:dreams of failure,inadequacy,loss of position and good repute.The essence of success is that theres never enough of it to go round in a zero-sum game where one persons winning must be offset by anothers losing,one persons joy offs

29、et by anothers disappointment.Youve grown up in a society where winning is not the most important thing its the only thing.To lose,to fail,to go under,to go broke these are deadly sins in a world where prosperity in the present is seen as a sure sign of salvation in the future.In a different society

30、,your disappointment might be something you could shrug away.But not in ours.My purpose in writing you is to put your disappointment in perspective by considering exactly what your grade means and doesnt mean.I do not propose to argue here that grades are unimportant.Rather,I hope to show you that y

31、our grade,taken at face value,is apt to be dangerously misleading,both to you and to others.Letter to a B StudentSection Two:Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading3.text3-SSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementAs a symbol on you

32、r college transcript,your grade simply means that you have successfully completed a specific course of study,doing so at a certain level of proficiency.The level of your proficiency has been determined by your performance of rather conventional tasks:taking tests,writing papers and reports,and so fo

33、rth.Your performance is generally assumed to correspond to the knowledge you have acquired and will retain.But this assumption,as we both know,is questionable;it may well be that youve actually gotten much more out of the course than your grade indicates or less.Lacking more precise measurement tool

34、s,we must interpret your B as a rather fuzzy symbol at best,representing a questionable judgment of your mastery of the subject.Letter to a B StudentSection Two:Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading3.text4-SSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:F

35、urther EnhancementYour grade does not represent a judgment of your basic ability or of your character.Courage,kindness,wisdom,good humor these are the important characteristics of our species.Unfortunately they are not part of our curriculum.But they are important:crucially so,because they are alway

36、s in short supply.If you value these characteristics in yourself,you will be valued and far more so than those whose identities are measured only by little marks on a piece of paper.Your B is a price tag on a garment that is quite separate from the living,breathing human being underneath.The student

37、 as performer;the student as human being.The distinction is one we should always keep in mind.I first learned it years ago when I got out of the service and went back to college.There were a lot of us then:older than the norm,in a hurry to get our degrees and move on,impatient with the tests and rit

38、uals of academic life.Not an easy group to handle.Letter to a B StudentSection Two:Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading3.text5-SSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementOne instructor handled us very wisely,it seems to me.On Sund

39、ay evenings in particular,he would make a point of stopping in at a local bar frequented by many of the GI-Bill students.There he would sit and drink,joke,and swap stories with men in his class,men who had but recently put away their uniforms and identities:former platoon sergeants,bomber pilots,cor

40、porals,captains,lieutenants,commanders,majors even a lieutenant colonel,as I recall.They enjoyed his company greatly,as he theirs.The next morning he would walk into class and give these same men a test.A hard test.A test on which he usually flunked about half of them.Letter to a B StudentSection Tw

41、o:Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading3.text6-SSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementOddly enough,the men whom he flunked did not resent it.Nor did they resent him for shifting suddenly from a friendly gear to a coercive one.R

42、ather,they loved him,worked harder and harder at his course as the semester moved along,and ended up with a good grasp of his subject economics.The technique is still rather difficult for me to explain;but I believe it can be described as one in which a clear distinction was made between the student

43、 as classroom performer and the student as human being.A good distinction to make.A distinction that should put your B in perspective and your disappointment.Letter to a B StudentSection Two:Global ReadingSection Three:Detailed Reading3.text7-SSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four:Consolida

44、tion Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementPerspective.It is important to recognize that human beings,despite differences in class and educational labeling,are fundamentally hewn from the same material and knit together by common bonds of fear and joy,suffering and achievement.Warfare,sickness,

45、disasters,public and private these are the larger coordinates of life.To recognize them is to recognize that social labels are basically irrelevant and misleading.It is true that these labels are necessary in the functioning of a complex society as a way of letting us know who should be trusted to d

46、o what,with the result that we need to make distinctions on the basis of grades,degrees,rank,and responsibility.But these distinctions should never be taken seriously in human terms,either in the way we look at others or in the way we look at ourselves.Letter to a B StudentSection Two:Global Reading

47、Section Three:Detailed Reading3.text8-SSection One:Pre-reading ActivitiesSection Four:Consolidation Activities Section Five:Further EnhancementEven in achievement terms,your B label does not mean that you are permanently defined as a B achievement person.Im well aware that B students tend to get Bs

48、in the courses they take later on,just as A students tend to get As.But academic work is a narrow,neatly defined highway compared to the unmapped rolling country you will encounter after you leave school.What you have learned may help you find your way about at first;later on you will have to shift

49、to yourself,locating goals and opportunities in the same fog that hampers us all as we move toward the future.1,052 wordsYour final grade for the course is B.A respectable grade.Far superior to the“Gentlemans C”that served as the norm a couple of generations ago.But in those days As were rare:only t

50、wo out of twenty-five,as I recall.Whatever our norm is,it has shifted upward,with the result that you are probably disappointed at not doing better.Im certain that nothing I can say will remove that feeling of disappointment,particularly in a climate where grades determine eligibility for graduate s