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Frank threw himself into his seat in the back of the Milwaukee city bus along with several other high school boys. It was another cold, gray day.
He still remembered his stomach chilling into a frozen knot as he approached the locker room last month. He had read the team list posted on the locker room door, hoping, searching anxiously for his name. It hadn't been there.
It was missing. He had felt suddenly as if he had ceased to exist. Become invisible.It wasn't easy starting a new school, especially for Frank because he had been a star athlete in all sports at elementary school. Now, it seemed, he was nothing.
The bus came to a stop at the County Institutions grounds. A very pregnant woman hung onto the silver handrail and slowly pulled herself onto the bus. As she fell backward into the seat behind the bus driver, her feet kicked up, and Frank saw that she wasn't wearing any shoes.
The bus driver yelled over his shoulder, "Where are your shoes, lady It is freezing out there."
"I can't afford shoes," the woman answered.
"I got on the bus just to get my feet warm," the woman continued. "If you don't mind, I'll just ride around with you for a bit." Some of the boys at the back exchanged glances and rolled their eves.
The driver scratched his head and shouted, "Now just tell me how come you can't afford shoes "
"I got eight kids. They all got shoes. There's not enough left for me.
"Frank looked down at his new Nike basketball shoes. His feet were warm and cozy. And then he looked back at the woman. Her socks were torn.
Her coat, missing buttons, hung open around her stomach, as swollen as a basketball.
Frank didn't hear anything around him after that. The word "invisible" popped into his mind again. An invisible person forgotten by society, but for a different reason, he thought.
续写部分
Paragraph 1He would probably always be able to afford shoes, bue she probably never would._______________________________________
Paragraph 2He then hurried to the door when he heard the woman exclain, "Thank you, young man."______________________________
深入分析文本:
文章的主要内容:
主人公Frank自认为打篮球技艺精湛、但在新学校的篮球队被无视了,心情郁闷。在公交车上遇到一个没钱没鞋穿的光脚孕妇,通过公交司机与孕妇的对话、Frank得知这个孕妇因为贫穷,没钱买鞋、只能上公交车让脚暖和些。通过公交车司机和孕妇的对话,Frank知道了孕妇的情况、看向了自己穿的新鞋,他找到了他与这名孕妇的共同点:invisible,只是原因不同,并因此而对孕妇产生了同情心。
续写情节发展:
Frank把自己的鞋子让给了孕妇,这名孕妇本以为自己因为贫穷被无视和遗忘、却没想到得到了Frank的帮助,这让她得到了Frank的帮助、非常感激Frank,而Frank也通过这一善举治愈了自己受伤的心情。
为达到续写内容的要求,需要学生回答几个问题,引导学生了解文章的主要内容:
Who are the main characters
本文的主要人物是Frank和没鞋穿的孕妇
What is the story about
Why did Frank feel "invisible"
What did Frank think made the woman "invisible"
She can't afford shoes for her poverty
She's forgotten by the society.
文章中的三个矛盾:
① Frank尽管篮球技艺精湛、却在学校篮球队遭到无视,但公交车上的孕妇被社会遗忘和无视;
② Frank穿着暖和舒适的鞋,但孕妇竟然光着脚;
③公交车上其他男生对孕妇嘲笑嫌弃,而Frank却为她感到难过。
文章的主题:invisile。invisible这个单词反复出了两次,Frank认为他与这个孕妇的共同之处都是invisible、这也是他对孕妇产生同情心的缘由。
文中的鞋子象征着Frank对篮球的热爱和他优渥的生活。
续写主要方向:
接下来续写部分要写Frank如何帮助孕妇,笔者再引导学生们想到帮助他人是快乐的,是可以治愈自己的,让学生们再讲Frank帮助孕妇这件事升华到帮助他人治愈自己。
主旨升华:Two "invisible" people help heal each other. 笔者又进一步引导学生升华内容:Sympathy and kindness lead to healing.
续写部分的信息和机构进行了梳理:
续写内容要突出的矛盾:①Frank捐了鞋、但要光脚走在雪地里或暂时不能打篮球;②文章一开始说Frank认为这又是寒冷灰蒙蒙的一天、但是帮助了孕妇之后却没有这种感觉了;
续写部分的主题:仍然是invisible,但侧重的是Frank的善举治愈了invisible给两位主人公带来的痛苦。
在续写部分,鞋象征了Frank的善良。而文中一开始出现的the cold象征Frank的遭遇,最终被Frank自己的善良治愈了,这也是续写内容的升华与精华。另外,续写部分还要注意处理好被Frank帮助的孕妇的感受,她非常感谢Frank的善举,本以为自己是被无视、遗忘的人,却能被陌生人关注、并得到帮助和温暖,这部分可以再次利用invisible来呼应主题。
参考答案:
He would probably always be able to afford shoes, but she probably never would. Under his seat, he pried the toe of one shoe into the heel of the other and slipped it off, Then the other shoe. Yes, he would be walking in the snow with bare feet! When the bus stopped at the end of the line, Frank waited until everyone else had emptied off. Then he reached under his seat and picked up his basketball shoes.He walked quickly up to the woman and handed them to her, looking down and saying, “Here, lady.you need these more than I do.”
He then hurried to the door when he heard the woman exclaim, “Thank you, young man: The driver was calling, “Hey, come back here, kid! What's your name ” Frank turned around to face him, his cheeks burning. “Frank Daily," he answered quietly. “Well, Frank, " said the driver, “I've never seen anything like this in the 20 years I've been driving this bus." The woman was crying. "Thank you. I felt people like me were “invisible’," she said. Frank smiled at the woman, mumbling, “it's no big deal.He hurried off. On his way home, he hardly felt the cold beneath his feet at all.