Unity all parts or elements of the writing

教学重点：强调第一阶段的写作目标： Unity, all parts or elements of the writing constituting an organic and harmonious whole; Coherence, all parts or elements well connected to show clear logical―causal, contrastive, hierarchical, parallel, etc. ―relations; Emphasis, special and significant stress given to important ideas by means of position, repetition, or other indication; Development, adequate elaboration and sufficient expansion; Clarity, precise, concise, and lucid in style.

（二）第一单元第 1部分2学时 主要内容：Letter of Thanks 教学要求：提前阅读《英语专业写 作》第一册，Section One, Unit 1 Notes/Letters of Thanks；阅读 Comprehensive English Movie Scripts, Forrest Gump；阅读Animal Farm, chapter 1.

教学重点：Grant the students a peek at Forrest Gump’s life journey where he learns to deal with not only the prejudice, hate, hope, fears and dreams of human nature but also life and death. Forrest is the embodiment of an era, an innocent at large in a world that is losing its innocence. His kind and loving heart knows what his limited IQ cannot. Armed with only his nature versus the world’s cruelty, he never allows his moral compass to waver. Forrest Gump has a story to tell and a letter of thanks to write to his beloved mother.

（二）第一单元第 1部分2学时 主要内容：Letter of Thanks 教学内容： 1、You are Forrest Gump. Write a letter of thanks to your mother. (150— 250 words)

（三）第一单元第 2部分2学时 主要内容：提交并陈述 1、 Letter of Thanks ; 2、A criticism about Animal Farm, chapter 1.

Vocabulary 1: (1) solitude (2) transport (3) remain (4) survive (5) concern (6) substantial (7) remind (8) earnest (9) worship (10) deserve (11) victim (12) despise (13) respectable (14) extreme (15) constancy (16) equal (17) fickle (18) principle (19) guarantee (20) staggering (21) alike (22) reign (23) antique (24) sham (25) style

下 次 提 交 1、 Passage Writing 1 （200 words or so）; 2、 A criticism about Animal Farm, chapter 2.

（四）第一单元第 3部分2学时 提交并陈述： 1、Passage Writing 1; 2、A criticism about Animal Farm, chapter 2.

（五）第二单元第 1部分2学时 主要内容： Letter of Invitation and Reply

教学要求 1、提前阅读《英语专业写作 》第一册，Section One, Unit 2 Notes/Letters of Invitation and Reply；

2、阅读Comprehensive English Movie Scripts, Roman Holiday； 3、阅读Animal Farm, chapter 3.

下下周提交 1、You are Princess Anne/Joe. Write a letter of Invitation or Reply to Joe/ Anne； 2、A criticism about Animal Farm, chapter 3.

教学重点：Joe Bradley, an American journalist, one night meets a beautiful girl in the street of Rome. The girl is Princess Anne, a descendent of Europe’s oldest ruling family paying a visit to Rome. He accompanies Princess Anne around Rome, getting not only many a valuable photo of her but also a subtle reading of her character. The happy experience of Rome set in an ordinary environment lasts for the whole day, and Anne’s heart is also deeply touched by Joe. Romance and reality always speaks different languages. In the press conference held for Princess Anne, the princess has to pretend not knowing Joe. Anne/Joe has a story to tell and a letter of invitation to write to the other.

（六）第二单元第 2部分2学时 提交并陈述： 1、You are Princess Anne/Joe. Write a letter of Invitation or Reply to Joe/ Anne； 2、A criticism about Animal Farm, chapter 3.

Vocabulary 2: (1) abstinence (2) thrift (3) consumption (4) enterprise (5) profit (6) sensitive (7) robust (8) outrage (9) refrain (10) retort (11) venal (12) disdain (13) compatible (14) countenance (15) prestige (16) blunt (17) adversary (18) distinguished (19) convince (20) queer (21) relish (22) turbulent (23) materialist (24) predominant (25) enchant

下 次 提 交 1、 Passage Writing 2 （200 words or so）; 2、 A criticism about Animal Farm, chapter 4.

（八）第三单元第 1部分2学时 主要内容： Letter of Inquiry and Request

教学要求： 1、提前阅读《英语专业写作》第一 册，Section One, Unit 3 Notes/Letters of Inquiry and Request； 2、阅读Comprehensive English Movie Scripts, Ghost； 3、阅读Animal Farm, chapter 5.

教学重点：Sam Wheat and Molly Jepson seem to have everything that all happy couples have. But it comes as a shock that Sam is killed. Life and death thereupon separate the lovers and Molly is entrapped into loneliness, remembrance, and grief. Sam’s ghost, who can see without being seen, hear without being heard, finds out the truth about his death. In order to comfort Molly and smash the murderer. Sam has a story to tell and a letter of inquiry and request to write to Molly.

（九）第三单元第 2部分2学时 主要内容： Letter of Inquiry and Request

提交并陈述： 1、You are Sam/Molly. Write a letter of inquiry and request to Molly/Sam； 2、A criticism about Animal Farm, chapter 5.

Vocabulary 3: (1) involve (2) compel (3) simultaneous (4) evoke (5) fastidious (6) sentimental (7) trace (8) unification (9) odour (10) modify (11) frequent (12) twinge (13) universe (14) crimson (15) supernatural (16) vitality (17) contrast (18) bosom (19) conflict (20) advantage (21) bias (22) liquidation (23) bitter (24) alien (25) tolerate

下 次 提 交 1、Passage Writing 3; 2、A criticism about Animal Farm, chapter 6.

（十）第三单元第 3部分2学时 提交并陈述： 1、Passage Writing 3; 2、A criticism about Animal Farm, chapter 6.

（十一）第四单元第 1部分2学时 主要内容： Letter of Apology and Explanation

教学要求 1、提前阅读《英语专业写作》第一册， Section One, Unit 5 Notes/Letters of Apology and Explanation； 2、阅读Comprehensive English Movie Scripts, Kramer VS. Kramer； 3、阅读Animal Farm, chapter 7.

教学重点：After a lifetime of being “somebody’s daughter or somebody’s wife”, Joanna is going off to find herself. Ted, while trying to hold down his job, gets to really know his son as few fathers do. For the first time in his life he feel like a fulfilled parent. But then Joanna returns and wants her son back. Ted has a story to tell and a letter of apology and explanation to write to Joanna.

（十二）第四单元第 1部分2学时 主要内容： Letter of Apology and Explanation

提交并陈述： 1、You are Ted/ Joanna. Write a letter of apology and explanation to Joanna / Ted； 2、A criticism about Animal Farm, chapter 7.

Vocabulary 4: (1) occupy (2) unworthy (3) major (4) surpass (5) heritage (6) astonishing (7) extant (8) collapse (9) penetration (10) cultivated (11) flimsy (12) cynical (13) idle (14) lifelong (15) transform (16) edifice (17) suspicion (18) awry (19) paradox (20) catastrophic (21) absolute (22) chaos (23) affectation (24) hypocrisy (25) criterion

下 次 提 交 1、Passage Writing 4; 2、A criticism about Animal Farm, chapter 8.

（十三）第四单元第 3部分2学时 提交并陈述： 1、Passage Writing 4; 2、A criticism about Animal Farm, chapter 8.

（十四）第五单元第 1部分2学时 1、提前阅读《英语专业写作》第一册， Section Two, Unit 2 Describing a Place； 2、阅读Comprehensive English Movie Scripts, Sleepless in Seattle； 3、阅读Animal Farm, chapter 9.

教学重点：After his wife dies, Sam, an architect in Chicago, and his son Jonah move to Seattle to avoid the sad memories. On Christmas Eve, Jonah calls to a radio program to say that he hopes his father could find a new wife. At the MC’s request, Sam tells his love for his wife. Annie, a journalist in Baltimore, happens to listen to the program and is deeply moved by Sam’s sensitivity. She can’t help trying every opportunity to approach him.

下下周提交 1、Describe the Empire State building on Valentine’s Day according to the movie Sleepless in Seattle； 2、A criticism about Animal Farm, chapter 9.

（十五）第五单元第 2部分2学时 提交并陈述： 1、 Describe the Empire State building on Valentine’s Day according to the movie Sleepless in Seattle； 2、A criticism about Animal Farm, chapter 9.

Vocabulary 5: (1) entertaining (2) identity (3) flourish (4) accuse (5) privilege (6) subvert (7) condense (8) exhausted (9) embody (10) exile (11) thrall (12) absurd (13) onslaught (14) bewilder (15) diminish (16) escape (17) remnant (18) devious (19) impeccable (20) vigilant (21) saturate (22) approach (23) agony (24) disturb (25) imply

（十六）第五单元第 3部分2学时 提交并陈述： 1、Passage Writing 5; 2、A criticism about Animal Farm, chapter 10.

（十七）第六单元第 1部分2学时 主要内容：Narrating an Event 教学要求：提前阅读《英语专业写作 》第一册，Section Two, Unit 1 Narrating an Event or a Routine；阅 读Comprehensive English Movie Scripts, Scent of a Woman；阅读 English Short Story Writing, Unit 1 Fiction: the Short Story.

教学重点：Lt. Colonel Frank Slade is one of life’s true originals, now blind, irascrible yet with a touch of the poet. Charlie is an earnest young prep student facing a difficult crossroad in his life. Their raucous, revealing and at times hysterical adventure in New York will leave them both changed forever.

（十八）第六单元第 2部分2学时 主要内容：Narrating an Event 教学要求：提交并陈述： 1、 Narrate an event which you experienced in the past vacation； 2、A criticism about The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin.

教学重点：熟悉并掌握Vocabulary 6: (1) colossal (2) restore (3) enchantment (4) startling (5) authentic (6) carnival (7) immaculate (8) wreck (9) reluctant (10) infamous (11) consternation (12) weary (13) evasive (14) obstacle (15) downfall (16) stir (17) hideous (18) prolong (19) deface (20) manifold (21) distress (22) proof (23) desolation (24) mourning (25) emblem (26) eloquence (27) repose (28) thwart (29) assimilation (30) encroachment

教学重点：To understand the functions of the different types of narrative point of view in short fiction; To see whether or not firstperson narration might be able to enhance an illusion of reality and a sense of immediacy; To examine what would be gained or lost by changing the narration in a given story from first to third person or vice versa; To acquie the ability to choose the best kind of narrator who can best fulfill your purposes as the author of a short story.

（二十）第七单元第 1部分2学时 主要内容：Describing a Person 教学要求：提前阅读《英语专业写作》 第一册，Section Two, Unit 2 Describing a Person；阅读Comprehensive English Movie Scripts, Rebecca；阅读English Short Story Writing, Unit 3 Plot.

教学重点：“I”happened to meet Mr. de Winter, the wealthy master of Manderley, and they fell in love with each other. “I”returned to Manderley with Maxim after their marriage. As “I”always suspect that Maxim still loved his beautiful dead wife Rebecca, and Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper of Manderley and Rebecca’s personal maid always created difficulties for me, “I”was very sad and downhearted.

（二十一）第七单元第 2部分2学时 主要内容：Describing a Person 教学要求：提交并陈述： 1、Describe and rewrite the character Rebecca from your point of view or from the point of view of one character in the movie； 2、A criticism about On the Road by Langston Hughes.

教学重点：熟悉并掌握Vocabulary 7: (1) extinction (2) infer (3) decry (4) denounce (5) veritable (6) tangle (7) torture (8) superstition (9) indelible (10) listless (11) ineffable (12) benign (13) sedate (14) apt (15) simper (16) soothe (17) animate (18) contemplate (19) shrink (20) iniquity (21) notorious (22) induce (23) reimburse (24) profligate (25) antagonist (26) dexterity (27) mishap (28) agility (29) treachery (30) rational

教学重点：To understand that plot is actually a kind of skeleton that a short story writer fills out by using the meat conflict; To develop an awareness of the fact that the conflict of a story is driven by its characters; To gain perspective on different types of internal and external conflict; To keep in mind one of the most important rules of fiction “No conflict, no story” when reading or writing a short story.

（二十三）第八单元第 1部分2学时 主要内容：Write an outline of short story 教学要求：Make up a short story of adventure/fantasy/family/romance/cri me/ terror. 教学重点：To understand that plot means the sequence of events in a story typically containing a launching action, some rising actions, a climax, and a resolution in a linear pattern.

（二十四）第八单元第 2部分2学时 主要内容： 1、Report the short story； 2、A criticism about The New Dress by Virginia Woolf 教学要求：提前阅读English Short Story Writing, Unit 5 Characterization I.

教学重点：To understand that a short story writer develops a character in one or more of the following ways: through his actions, thoughts and speeches, through a physical description of him or a direct statement about him, through the opinions of other characters; To identify the protagonist of a short story as a threedimensional character, and examine his physical attributes, background, and psychology that characterize him as an individual.

（二十五）第八单元第 3部分2学时 主要内容： 1、Report the short story； 2、A criticism about A Clean, Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway 教学要求：提前阅读English Short Story Writing, Unit 6 Characterization II.

教学重点：To see how a round character is portrayed as being threedimensional, complex, and full of possibilities for conflicts in short fiction; To see how a flat character functions to highlight what a round character experiences in short fiction; To learn to identify antiheroes, foils, stock characters, static characters, and dynamic characters in short fiction, and try to make sense of their different roles.

（二十六）第八单元第 4部分2学时 主要内容： 1、Report the short story； 2、A criticism about The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield 教学要求：提前阅读English Short Story Writing, Unit 7 Setting.

教学重点：To know that setting plays a much larger role than mere physical description in a short story, and it forms a framework in which the story unfolds; To see how the setting of a short story contributes to its tone, conflict, characterization, emotional and thematic signification; To know that the characters of a short story are usually shaped by the setting, as all human beings are, in a sense, products of their environment.

（二十七）第九单元第 1部分2学时 主要内容：Causes/Effects of an Event 教学要求：提前阅读《英语专业写作》 第一册，Section Two, Unit 4 Demonstrating the Causes/Effects of an Event；阅读Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift，1－20章; 阅读English Short Story Writing, Unit 8 Atmosphere.

教学重点：To understand that the atmosphere of a short story refers to its prevailing emotional mood, or the feeling that the author wishes the reader to achieve; To examine how the atmosphere of a short story, as an intangible psychological environment, works to appeal to the reader’s sensory and extra-sensory perceptions; To be aware that one of the basic necessities of a good short story is the consistency of its atmosphere.

（二十八）第九单元第 2部分2学时 主要内容：Causes/Effects of an Event 教学要求：提交并陈述： 1、A. Write an essay on the causes and effects of the wars in Lilliput; B. Write an essay on the causes and effects of the politics in Brobdingnag； 2、A criticism about The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe.

教学重点：熟悉并掌握Vocabulary 8: (1) deposit (2) corporeal (3) bigot (4) invective (5) inaugurate (6) startle (7) remorse (8) summit (9) sullen (10) default (11) forsake (12) haggard (13) vagrant (14) blush (15) triteness (16) mock (17) farfetched (18) chivalry (19) plunder (20) disposed (21) satiate (22) instantaneous (23) bawdy (24) formidable (25) brandish (26) interpose (27) prostrate (28) menacing (29) plague (30) indignation

教学重点：To understand that the tone of a story refers to the attitude that the author takes toward his subject and characters, and toward the reader; To understand that the tone of a story permeates the entire story, and helps to interpret the symbolic actions as distinguished from the mere surface of the plot; To see how the tone of a story can convey more than one attitude, and how the author can amuse, anger, or shock the reader through his tone.

（三十）第十单元第 1部分2学时 主要内容：Comparing and Contrasting 教学要求：提前阅读《英语专业写作》 第一册，Section Two, Unit 3 Comparing and Contrasting Two Things； 阅读Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift， 21－39章; 阅读English Short Story Writing, Unit 10 Theme。

教学重点：To examine how theme of a short story, the controlling idea behind it, selects and arranges every material which goes into the story; To examine how the characters, actions, conflicts, and setting of a short story work together to dramatize its theme, and offer a thoughtful interpretation of an aspect of humanity, which emerges from the author’s world outlook, or his philosophy of life; To understand that theme of a short story might be expressed directly or indirectly, and that a short story might have more than one theme.

（三十一）第十单元第 2部分2学时 主要内容：Comparing and Contrasting 教学要求：提交并陈述： 1、Contrast the Yahoos and the Houyhnhnms and compare one of them with the human race； 2、A criticism about Theft by Katherine Anne Porter.

教学重点：熟悉并掌握Vocabulary 9: (1) spectacle (2) insipid (3) confound (4) depute (5) elegy (6) requisite (7) snare (8) prattle (9) sally (10) notwithstanding (11) abhorrence (12) adhere (13) oath (14) digression (15) wholesome (16) plump (17) reckon (18) visionary (19) scruple (20) tribute (21) devoid (22) covetous (23) temperate (24) serene (25) sober (26) dissemble (27) precarious (28) omnipotence (30) ransack

教材：《英语专业写作》第一册，王星主 编，上海外语教育出版社，2005年 《英国散文的流变》，王佐良著， 商务印书馆，1998年 其他学习材料：Comprehensive English Movie Scripts, Animal Farm, English Short Story Writing, Gulliver’s Travels 网络资源：http: //www. magice. org/reading/links. htm http: //www. hubce. edu. cn/Adv. E/

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