大学英语全新版第一册unit 1 教案.docVIP

授 课标 题 Unit Growing Up 授 课教 师 系别 班级 授 课时 间 教学目标 Teaching Objectives Students will be able to: Grasp the main idea and structure of the text. Appreciate the difference between comparison and contrast, as well as different ways to compare and contrast (point-by-point method or one-side-at-a-time method). Master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text. Conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities related to the theme of the unit. 文化背景 Cultural Notes 1. Michael Dorris 1945-1997 Michael Dorris was born on January 30, 1945. Dorris graduated from Georgetown University in 1967 with an English and Classics major. He then went to Yale University where he earned a graduate degree in Anthropology. Dorris ancestry, part American Indian, led him to ethnographic fieldwork in an Athapaskan village of Tyonek, Alaska. In 1970, he earned an M.Phil. degree from Yale and then taught at Franconia College for a year. Dorris final position was at Dartmouth College. He began teaching there in 1972. His major accomplishment at Dartmouth College was the founding of the Native American Studies Program. Dorris took his own life on April 11, 1997. Books written by Michael Dorris are: The Broken Cord: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Loss of the Future Native Americans Five Hundred Years After (with photographer Joseph Farber, 1975) A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1987) A Guide to Research on North American Indians (with Mary Byler and Arlene Hirschfelder, 1988) The Crown of Columbus (with Louise Erdrich, 1991) Working Men (1993) Rooms in the House of Stone (1993) Paper Trail (a collection of essays, 1994) Cloud Chamber (1997) 2. US grade school system: Grade schools in the US: “The third year in high school (para.1)”equals “the eleventh grade”. (para. 9). US students generally go through elementary schools ( kindergarten to 5th or 6th grade), middle schools( grades 6-8) or junior high schools ( grades 7-9), and high schools