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Book 11 Module 3 Ernest Hemingway Learners Sheet for Reading and Writing Learning Objectives: After learning the lesson, the students will be able to:1. Understand the novel “The Old Man and the Sea” better.2. Read an extract (节选) from the novel fluently and emotionally. 3. Analyze (分析) and say Hemingways writing style.4. Reflect and write a sentence to illustrate (说明) a lesson learnt from the novel.5. Evaluate and say what makes a great novel.6. Develop the courage to overcome any difficulty.Part 1: Pre-Class Learners” SheetActivity 1: Individual Reading Your taskFinish reading “The Old Man and the Sea” English version during the coming Dragon Boat Festival holiday.Read the following tips to know how to read original English books. Assistances:Tip 1: Build the confidence.The novel appears in high school Chinese Text Book 3. The main characters and plots have been known by us. Besides, the language in Hemingways works is simple and common. Tip 2: Prepare “tools”(1) the English novel, a Kindle electronic reader, a computer or a smart phone.(2) a useful website for online reading: (3) a dictionary (4) a notebookTip 3: Make a reading planThe total words of the novel are almost 27,000. The general reading speed is 300 words per minute. Under ideal condition, the reading can be done in 90 minutes. Dont forget the time spent in looking up new words. Make your own 3-day reading plan.Tip 4: Look up new wordsDont refer to the dictionary every time you meet a new word. Neglect in t and go on reading. If the word appears again and again, look it up and write down the Chinese meaning and pronunciation.Tip 5: Write down sparkling lines.When finding a sentence or a small paragraph to your taste, write it down in your note book.Tip 6: Read for funThe best teacher is our interest in something. Do remember in our whole life, reading is for fun and growth, not just for examination. Action:Lets go immediately! Action is the most powerful language.Activity 2: Group Reading Your task 1. Finish the job in your group 2. Give a performance by reading an extract from “The Old Man and the Sea” emotionally. Requirements 1. Limit the reading performance to 1 minute. 2. The words of the extract are within 200. 3. Music and PPT courseware are welcome. Labor Division To finish the task, it is suggested that team members should cooperate and clarify ones own tasks . Team memberRolesTasks1an organizer2a word editor3a picture editor4a musician5a PPT maker6a reading performer AssistanceThe following resources are provided to help your group work.1. A video of CCTV 10 “The Reader” : a Chinese version “The Old Man and the Sea”2. Two example extracts from the novel simplified by the teacher: Example 1: The clouds over the land now rose like mountains and the coast was only a long green line with the gray blue hills behind it. The water was a dark blue now, so dark that it was almost purple The old man shivered in the cold that came after sunset. When something took one of his remaining baits, he cut the line with his sheath knife.Example 2:The fish never changed his course nor his direction all that night as far as the man could tell from watching the stars. The old man thought only of his steering and his great tiredness.But, then, nothing is easy. It is silly not to hope, he thought. Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.Part 2: While-Class Learners SheetI Expanded readingExtract 1:But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert. Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.They were strange shoulders, still powerful although very old, and the neck was still strong too and the creases did not show so much when the old man was asleep and his head fallen forward.His shirt had been patched so many times that it was like the sail and the patches were faded to many different shades by the sun. Extract 2:The boy loved the old fisherman and pitied him. If he had no money of his own, the boy begged or stole to make sure that Santiago had enough to eat and fresh baits for his lines. The old man accepted his kindness with humility that was like a quiet kind of pride. Extract 3: “Christ, I did not know he was so big.” he said, “ I will kill him though, in all his greatness and glory. “ Although it is unjust, but I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures.The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength, and more strength he had just gathered, into the fishs side just behind the great chest fin that rose high in the air to the altitude of the mans chest. Extract 4: An hour later he sighted the first shark. It was a fierce Mako, and it came in fast to slash with raking teeth at the dead marlin. With failing(不断衰弱的) strength the old man struck the shark with his harpoon. The Mako rolled and sank, carrying the harpoon with it and leaving the marlin mutilated and bloody. When the third appeared, he thrust at it with the knife, only to feel the blade snap as the fish rolled. He had gone out too far and the sharks had beaten him. He knew they would leave him nothing but the stripped skeleton of his great catch. “But a man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” II Creative Writing1. Write a quote(引语) from the novel. 2. Write one sentence to illustrate (说明) your gains. 3. Use “Hemingways writing style.” 4. Follow the following examples.Example:1. “It is silly not to hope.” I will never g