内容正文:
《高中英语(上外版)》选择性必修第二册 Unit 1 Scientists
课时:第 5课时 教学内容:Reading B: Rosalind Franklin
课型: 阅读课
一、教学设计与说明
1. 教学目标
本课为本单元的第五课时,学生通过该课时的学习,能通过与人物专栏文章进行比较,
掌握人物传记的语篇特征和主要内容;能通过分析作者对词汇、句子结构和修辞方法的选
择,辨认作者的情感;能通过分析富兰克林应对困难时展现出的精神品质和诠释成为科学
家对她的意义,解读她对科学的热爱。
2. 设计思路
本课为本单元的第五四课时,旨在引导学生通过比较人物专栏文章,理解人物传记的
文体特征;通过分析作者的遣词造句,判断作者的情感;通过理解科学家面对的困难,分
析科学家应对困难的态度,概括科学家的精神品质。首先,请学生思考人物传记应包含的
内容,接着通过与人物专栏文章的比较,概括人物传记的文体特征,包括标题的拟定、图
片的选择和主要内容。其次,教师引导学生梳理富兰克林作为一位女性科学家遇到的困难,
分析她应对困难的态度,理解她的主要成就,从而概括她的精神品质,进一步理解她对科
学毕生的热爱。最后,学生基于对文章的理解和补充的富兰克林的引言,分小组谈谈自己
对成为一名科学家对于富兰克林的意义的理解,并在全班分享小组的理解。作业要求:以
富兰克林的口吻给女科学家们写 80个词左右的信,谈谈她对于自己的成就终于获得认可
的感受以及她给女科学家们的建议。
3. 重点难点
分析作者的遣词造句,判断作者的情感;概括科学家的精神品质并理解成为一名科学
家对富兰克林的意义。
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Lesson Plan
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this period, students will be able to:
1. grasp the main content and the textual features of Rosalind Franklin’s biography by
comparing it with a feature article and arranging her life events in time order;
2. identify the author's feelings by analyzing the author’s choice of words, sentence structure
and figures of speech;
3. explain Rosalind Franklin’s undying passion for science by analyzing the various qualities
she displayed in her approaches to difficulties and by interpreting what it means to her to be a
scientist.
Learning Procedures:
Before-reading
I. Interactive activity 1: The layout of a biography of a scientist
*T:Ask Ss to compare the layout of a feature article with that of a biography and encourage
them to think about what text type this passage is and what they’d like to include in a
biography
*Ss: Compare the layout of a feature article with that of a biography and think about the type of
writing and brainstorm different parts of a biography
Purpose: to prepare for to the biography of Rosalind Franklin and to help Ss have a basic
understanding of the layout of a biography
Guided question:
What would you like to include in a scientist's biography?
II. Interactive activity 2: The Dark Lady of DNA (1)
*T: Ask Ss students to thi