Unit 6 The Admirable Reading Club 教学设计 Education-2024-2025学年北师大版高中英语必修第二册

Unit 6 The Admirable
Reading Club Anne Frank and Her Diary
1. Analysis of teaching material
My lesson is Unit 6 The Admirable Reading Club 2 Anne Frank and Her Diary from Senior High English textbook 3 by Beijing Normal University Press published in 2019. The unit topic is about the admirable people and admirable qualities. The theme is human and society. It is aimed to help students get to know some admirable people, learn to analyze their qualities according to their life experiences, make their own judgment about what is valuable in life, what kind of attitude we should hold when facing some specific situation in lives, arouse their sense of admiration for the admirable people and follow their example in students' real lives.
The lesson will be analyzed from three perspectives: what, why and how.
What
This lesson focuses on reading, presenting Anne Frank's life experiences during World War II.
Why
It is aimed to arouse students Acknowledgement of optimism by presenting a story in which a little girl called Anne showed a positive and optimistic spirit in times of extreme hardship during the Nazi Holocaust.
How
The text is an expository article which includes a brief story of Anne, a brief description of her hiding life, the background of her diary and the spirit Anne showed in face of trouble. Students can achieve the learning objectives by finishing a series of reading tasks based on the text.
2. Analysis of target students
The students are in senior one. They have the basic ability to understand a story，but their ability to analyze a person's character with evidence from texts and express themselves in English is a little weak.
3. Teaching Objectives
By the end of the lesson, the students should be able to
1) acquire factual information about Anne and Anne's diary.
2) analyze Anne's qualities according to her life experiences and the quotations from her diary
3) summarize and introduce Anne’s life based on what they have learnt
4. Teaching focuses and difficulties
Teaching focus
Students gain the general ideas and specific information of Anne's story and her diary.
Teaching difficulty
Students analyze Anne's qualities and introduce her life.
5. Teaching approach
Activity-based approach
6. Teaching aids
PowerPoint slides
Steps (interactive mode, time) Activities Purposes
Pre-reading IW, GW 5’ Activity 1 Lead-in Ask students the question: Have you ever written diaries What's your purpose of writing diaries How often do you write a diary Give the following phrases for help. to express one's feelings to think better to help one to reflect to record something special/ exciting... ... Show students a short extract from the movie Anne’s Diary. Lead in the topic that there is a little girl in history whose diary has been published and became a famous book. And today we are going to gain more information about this girl and her diary. The purpose of the teaching design is to arouse students' interest and guide students to relate what they are going to learn with their own experiences.
While-reading IW GW CW 25’ Activity 2 Fast reading Students skim the article quickly to answer the question. ●What topics are talked about Students match the three topics with the paragraphs. The purpose of the teaching design is to help students get the main idea of the text and develop their reading strategy of skimming.
Activity 3 Careful reading Read for specific information. Read Part I (para.1) and answer the following questions. ●What does “them” in the second sentence “Anne Frank is one of them.” refer to Read Part II (para.2-5) and answer the following questions. ●Why did her family have to live in a secret hiding place ●Where was their secret hiding place ●How was their life in the secret hiding place ●Why did Anne start to write her diary in the secret hiding place ●What did she write in her diary ●What happened to the secret hiding place on and after 4 August, 1944 Complete the timeline Read Part III (para.6-8) and answer the following questions. ●How popular is Anne’s diary ●What can we know about Anne from her diary The purpose of the teaching design is to help students to grasp key points of the text. At the same time, it is aimed to develop students’ ability to read for specific information. The purpose of the teaching design is to firstly make the best use of the advantages of a diagram and secondly to enable students to understand Anne’s story as a whole chronologically. The purpose of the questions is to guide students to explore and analyze Anne's qualities and learn from her.
Post-reading IW GW CW 13’ Step 3 Post-reading Activity 6 Critical thinking Students read and analyze: find the quotations from Anne's diary, read it aloud and what kind of person was Anne according to these quotations Ask students to think and answer: Think and share: Why Anne's diary is one of the most important diaries ever written The purpose of the questions is to lead students to relate the historic background of Anne to the popularity of her diary and guide students to explore and analyze Anne's qualities and learn from her
Activity 7 Oral Summary Students summarize the whole text in orally in which students should include the following parts: A brief summary of and life experience during World War II, why she kept a diary why her diary was so popular The purpose of the teaching design is to develop students' ability to summarize, develop their oral expression ability and at the same time increase their output.
2’ Activity 9 Homework Option 1 Search online about the whole speech from US President Ronald Reagan after the 1986 Challenger disaster. Choose three paragraphs and read after them. Imitate his pronunciation, intonation and emotion. Option 2 Read The Diary of Anne Frank either from a printed book or online. Write three quotes from the diary that impress you most and explain the reasons. The Purpose of my design: the homework is designed according to different levels of students, which is aimed to help students consolidate what they’ve learned, and transfer the language input into output to improve their language competence.