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Project
Making a poster about a writer
Unit 4 Exploring literature
Do you know any ancient or modern Chinese writers
Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period
Learning without thinking leads to confusion; thinking without learning ends in danger.
Confucius
The road ahead is long and has no ending; yet high and low I will search with my will unbending.
Qu Yuan
Neither riches nor honors can corrupt him; neither poverty nor humbleness can make him swerve from principle; and neither threats nor forces can subdue him.
Mencius
Han Dynasty
Jia Yi
Si Maqian
Jin Dynasty
Tao Yuanming
王勃、刘禹锡、柳宗元、王维、白居易、韩愈、李商隐
Li Bai
Du Fu
Tang Dynasty
Can you list any other famous poets of this period
Be the first to show concern and the last to enjoy oneself.
Fan Zhongyan
Song Dynasty
Ouyang Xiu
Su Shi
Wang Shifu
Ma Zhiyuan
Yuan Dynasty
Cao Xueqing
Tang Xianzu
Ming and Qing Dynasties
老舍、冰心、朱自清、张爱玲、沈从文、林语堂、蒋方舟
不在沉默中爆发,就在沉默中灭亡。
撑着油纸伞,独自
彷徨在悠长、悠长
又寂寥的雨巷
轻轻的我走了,
正如我轻轻的来;
我们听过无数的道理,却仍然过不好这一生。
The modern and contemporary writers
Lu Xun
Dai Wangshu
Xu Zhimo
Han Han
Do you know any other writers of this time
Do you know any ancient or modern English writers
Geoffrey Chaucer
The father of English poetry
Old English Period
The Renaissance Period: a period of drama and poetry
the poets’ poet
Edmund Spenser
Essays ( of Friendship)
France Bacon
Hamlet
Willian Shakespeare
Do you know Shakespeare’s other plays
Hamlet
Othello
King Lear
Macbeth
As You Like It
Twelfth Night
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Merchant of Venice
Neoclassical period(17th ):
Daniel Defoe
Robert Burns
Jonathan Swift
Father of English novel
Henry Fielding
The Lake Poets:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Robert Southey
The Active Poets:
George Gordon Byron: Byronic Hero
Percy Bysshe Shelly: Ode to Westwind
John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale
The Romantic Period:
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth
The Victorian Period:
Charlotte Bronte
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
Modernism:
George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion(窈窕淑女)
William Butler Yeats
David Herbert Laurance
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf
The Modernism Period:
George Bernard Shaw
Do you know any ancient or modern American writers
Colonial Period:
Benjamin Franklin
American printer and publisher, author, inventor and scientist, and diplomat.
Henry David Thoreau: Walden
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
The Scarlett Letter
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickenson
Romantic Period:
Henry David Thoreau
Henry James: Daisy Miller
Mark Twain:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry
Realism Period:
Mark Twain
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
The Great Gatsby
Ezra Pound
Thomas Sterns Eliot
Ernest Hemingway:
The Old Man and The Sea
William Faulkner
John Steinbeck:
The Grapes of Wrath
Modernism Period:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jerome David Salinger:
Catcher in the Rye
Tennessee Williams:
The Glass Menagerie
Arthur Miller:
Death of a Salesman
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck: The Good Earth
Post-war Period:
Jerome David Salinger
If you are going to introduce your favorite writer, either Chinese or other countries’, who will you choose Why
I will choose Pearl Sydenstricker Buck because she was an award-winning American writer, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her Biographical masterpieces.
How to introduce the writer comprehensibly
Make a booklet
Make a scrapbook
Make a PPT
Make a poster
…
Let’s make a poster about a writer.
Take Pearl Sydenstricker Buck as an example.
Topics to include in your poster
Life story
…
Achievements
Sayings
Works
Conduct further research about these topics in groups.
A Writer
Achievements:
Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932
Won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 (the first American woman to win the prize)
Most popular works:
The Good Earth(1931)
Sons(1932)
A House Divided(1935)
All Men Are Brothers(a translation of the Chinese classic novel Shuihuzhuan)
Put together your information to make your poster.
Life story
Lived in Zhenjiang during her early life;
Started writing in 1922
Taught English literature in Nanjing
Returned to the USA in 1935
Famous sayings:
“All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.”
“many people lose the small joys in the hope for their big happiness.”
What occasions do people usually use posters for
events
movies
Commercial advertisements
Public service advertisements
Theme-focused, accurate, simple, organized, eye-catching, neat, colorful, etc.
What adjectives would you use to describe a poster that attracts your attention most
“All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.”
“many people lose the small joys in the hope for their big happiness.”
Life story
Lived in Zhenjiang during her early life;
Started writing in 1922
Taught English Literature in Nanjing
Returned to the USA in 1935
Achievements:
Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932
Won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938( the first American Woman to win the prize)
Most popular works:
The Good Earth(1931)
Sons(1932)
A House Divided(1935)
All Men Are Brothers( a translation of the Chinese classic novel Shuihuzhuan)
Pearl S. Buck
(1892-1973)
Tips on giving a presentation:
When giving a presentation, you need to:
speak clearly and confidently;
make eye contact with your audience;
talk at a proper speed and pause when it is necessary to give your audience time to think about what you have said;
keep your facial expressions relaxed and friendly.