Unit 7 I’d Rather Be Black than Female.doc

Unit 7 I’d Rather Be Black than Female
Learning Objectives 2
Section One Pre-reading Activities 2
I. Picture Activation 2
II. Pre- reading Questions 2
Section Two Global Reading 3
I. Text Introduction 3
II. Culture Notes 3
III. Author 5
IV. Structural Analysis 5
Section Three Detailed Reading 5
I. Analysis 7
II. Questions for Paragraphs 9
III. Language Work of Paragraphs 10
IV. Chinese Translation of Paragraphs 16
Section Four Consolidation Activities 17
I. prehension 17
II. Writing Strategies 18
III. Language Work 18
IV. Translation 22
V. Oral Activities 24
VI. Research Paper Writing 25
Section Five Further Enchantment 28
I. Lead-in Questions 28
II. Text II 29
III. Text II: Comprehension 32
IV. Notes of Text II 33
V. Fun Time & Memorable Quotes 34
Learning Objectives
Rhetorical skill: comparison, rhetorical questions and parallelism
Key language & grammar points
Writing strategies: author’s experiences
Theme: sexism and racism
Section One Pre-reading Activities
I. Picture Activation
Can you define racial discrimination and sexual discrimination in your own words?
Sexism is discrimination based on the gender of a person — looking down on people because they are male or female.
Racism is the belief that a particular race is better or worse than another, and that a person is born with their social and moral traits, which are related to their race.
II. Pre- reading Questions
1. “Sitting in the same classroom, reading the same textbook, listening to the same teacher, boys and girls receive very different educations.”(Sadker, D., Sadker, M. 1994. Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls. Toronto: Simon & Schuster Inc.) Boys are encouraged to be active and bold, while girls are praised for being quiet and attentive. Did your teachers in your primary school or high school treat and educate students differently based on sex? Do you think there exists gender bias in our classrooms?
Open for discussion.
2. Throughout history,