An overview of a class（SAT-Essay）

·班级Class

Class 19 & 20, Senior 2

·题目 Topic

The method 1 of SAT-Essay introduction: Reasoning

·教学目标和要求 Teaching objectives

1. get familiar with the skill of providing background information in the introduction

2. get familiar with the skill of introducing a quotation about the topic in the introduction

3. get familiar with the skill of raising a question about the THS in the introduction

·重点难点 Difficulty and key points

1. the common quotation that students should collect

2. the extension of the background information

·上课内容 Course content

1. The exercise of the skill--providing background information:

Is conscience a more powerful motivator than money, fame, or power?

With the quickening and fierce pace of modern life, each person has a great desire of rising to the position of winners with expected fame, money, power, and other realistic interests rather than spiritual needs. Thereby, it has been increasingly difficult to ignore the issue on the dispute between conscience and money, fame, power. In my point of view, conscience is a more compelling force.

2. The exercise of the skill--introducing a quotation about the topic:

Is it better to change one’s attitude than to change one’s circumstances?

“I cannot change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” The wind is the unchangeable circumstance, and the sail symbolized our attitude towards the world. The environment will be stable, but we can change our attitude to adapt it and manipulate it to serve us.

3. The exercise of the skill-- raising a question about the THS in the introduction:

Are people best defined by what they do?

People tirelessly go about spending their date worrying about putting on makeup, dealing with teacher, and impressing employers. To what purpose do we invest such a monumental amount of time and effort on these aspects of life? We decide to do so because it is an innate trait to mind what others think of us, with the fact that we are always defined by our behavior or first response to an event.

·作业任务 Assignments

1. writing exercise: Do people need to compare themselves with others in order to appreciate

what they have? (use 3 skills of reasoning to write the introduction)