高级英语课件The One who Walks Away fromOmelas.ppt

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Ursula Le Guin Teaching Plan Teaching Objectives To enable the students to learn about an allegorical story To familiarize students with science fiction To discuss the topic “what is happiness and on what real happiness depends” Teaching Focus Utopia, an ideal society for human beings, is a long-pursued dream and we have had various types of it from Plato to Thomas Moore and others. Is it true? Can it become true? It is a science fiction, an allegory, a Utopia or a mixture. Anyhow the focus is the story itself: what can we get from it? All figures of speech applied. A cast of characters. The description of the child. How does the author convey his ideal of her ideal society? Teaching Methods Teacher-oriented teaching method Student-oriented teaching method The elicited method Teaching Procedure Ⅰ. Introductory Remarks Ⅱ. Background Information Ⅲ. Learning Focus Ⅳ. Key words and Expressions Ⅴ. Explanation of the Text Ⅵ. Division of the Text Ⅶ. The Writing Style Ⅷ. Rhetorical Devices Ⅸ. Exercises Introductory Remarks Ⅰ. Introductory Remarks a piece of allegorical writing provocative theme the nature of happiness and on what it depends describing the events a. the Festival of Summer b. march in procession c. a horse race people of Omelas not simple but happy the basis of their happiness a just discrimination of what is necessary What is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. no monarchy, slavery, or any commercial, political or military institution, and no guilt a child locked in a tiny room and mistreated a terrible justice of reality All the happiness of Omelas is based on its suffering. the nature and basis of happiness Should happiness of the many be based upon the suffering of the few? an open, thought-provoking ending Some people leave Omelas after seeing the child. Detailed Study of the Text Ⅱ. Background Information Ursula Le Guin American Science fiction writer born in Berkeley, California