新视野大学英语读写教程第三册Unit_3_Section教案

Unit 3 Section A Where Principles Come First
I. Background information
1. Brief introduction of Hyde:
The school opened in 1999 with 240 students in grades 7-9 and currently serves 698 students in grades K-4 and 6-12. It will eventually serve more than 1,000 students in grades K-12. The core philosophy of Hyde Leadership PCS is that each individual is gifted with unique potential that defines a destiny. The unique potential is developed through a character-based curriculum that stresses a student-parent-teacher partnership and creates a family-school bond.
2. Key Words about Hyde School:
Character-Based：One of Hyde’s basic purposes is to develop students' character. This focus on character unleashes the deepest motivation in students' self-discovery. The school helps students answer the following three questions: Who am I? Where am I going? What do I need to do to get there?
Five Words: Our Five Words are what we believe define character: Leadership - I am a leader through asking the best of myself and the best of others.
Integrity - I am gifted with a unique potential and conscience as my guide to discovering it.
Curiosity - I am responsible for my own learning.
Courage - I learn the most by facing challenges and taking risks.
Concern - I need a challenging and supportive community in which to develop my character.
Five Principles: Our Five Principles guide the conduct of all the school’s activity:
Destiny - Each of us is gifted with a unique potential that defines a destiny. Humility - We trust in a power and purpose beyond ourselves.
Conscience - We achieve our best through character and conscience.
Truth - Truth is our primary guide.
Brother's Keeper - We help others achieve their best.
3. Focus of Hyde: Attitude more than aptitude; Effort more than ability;
Character more than talent
II. Structure Analysis
1.What is the text mainly about?
The text is about the Hyde School’s successful search for a new approach in education, which is centered upon teaching students the merit of such values as truth, integrity, leadership, curiosity and concern.
2.How is the text organized?
The writer developed the topic by employing the reading technique of 'questions and answers'，with which the writer, on behalf of the reader, asks himself one question after another first, and then answers them one by one until his ideas are made clear to the reader. This is a very important technique of bringing out the relationship between the paragraphs, as shown below. Question 1: What are the principles?
Key words:merits of values, academic achievement, preparing sb. for a way of life
Question 2: What are people’s attitudes towards the principles?
Key words: willing, protesting, eyeing, fearing
Question 3: What are the detailed principles?
Key words: 1) potential based on character, conscience & hard work, success measured by growth, responsibility
2) providing preparation for college, taking performing arts and sports
3) requiring the parents’ commitment & participation
Question 4: What are the beneficial results?
Key words: role model for children, fruitful relationship, an example of a student, going to college
III. New words and expressions
1. to operate on the principle that…以…为原则（宗旨）运作
We employ people on the principle that the sky is so high that any bird can fly freely — there is scope for everyone to exercise his talents freely.
2. to naturally follow 自然会随之而来
Much better results will naturally follow as long as you never give up trying.
3. to receive considerable publicity for its work 因其工作备受关注More than 50 years after WWII, the chemical weapons Japan left behind in China receive considerable publicity for this incident.
4. to see ourselves as 把我们视为…
His frequent questions were seen as interrupting the class.
5. to cultivate a comprehensive set of principles 倡导一整套价值观念The writer has created a comprehensive set of vivid images in her novel.
6. to spread his idea to public schools 把他的理念向公立学校推广
If you allow your child to attend school he could spread the bad cold to the other children.
7. (sth.) to be suspended （某事）暂时搁置
The air service in some countries has been suspended because of the alarming spread of this disease.
8. to be associated with 与…相关
People often complain about the mental strain associated with modern life.
9. (sth.) to be scheduled to (某事)计划
This school’s new educational reform project is scheduled to be started up in three months.
10. to eye the program 关注这个教学计划
Many people are eyeing the progress of the new project.
11. to open a magnet program 启动一项引人注目的计划
The market-oriented economy has opened up the market to those with great competence and learning.
12. over parents' protests 不顾家长们的抗议
The nurse gave the boy an injection over his protest.
13. the quest for truth 对真理的追求
There will be no limit to our quest for a better life.
14. in an energetic exchange 采用激烈讨论的方式
They tend to reach an agreement in an energetic exchange.
15. to spend the last five minutes evaluating sth. 用最后五分钟评估某事
What worries parents most is that their children spend more and more time chatting online.
16. to put one’s best effort forth / to do one’s utmost 全力以赴
I will put my best effort forth if it is for the sake of my motherland.
17. (sth.) to be based on …, not …(某事的)基础是…而不是…One’s success is based largely on his internal factors, not external factors.
18. to be measured by …, not …由…来衡量，而不是由…来衡量The value of one’s life should be measured by how much good he does to society, not how long he lives in the world.
19. (sb.) to be required to do sth. (某人)必须做某事
With the situation being urgent, we are required to make an immediate decision.
20. to have nothing to do with 与…无关
Success in teaching has everything to do with a strong sense of responsibility.
21. complete with English 包括英语学习
There is a good hotel not far from the city, complete with a swimming pool and a garden leading to the beach.
22. to work out 制订; 解决; 算出; 锻炼
We will leave it to the committee to work out the details of the plan.
23. at the outset of sth. 在(某事的)一开始
The committee did not run into any difficulty from the outset of the investigation.
24. kind of 有几分；有点儿
I’m not sure why, but, I feel kind of sorry for him.
IV. Language Points
1. Hyde School founder Joseph Gauld claims success with the program at the $18,000-a-year high school in Bath, Maine, which has received considerable publicity for its work with troubled youngsters. (Para. 1)
Meaning: Joseph Gauld, the founder of the Hyde School, declares that the program at the high school in Bath, Maine is successful. The school, which charges a student $18,000 per year, has drawn considerable attention from the public and news media because of its successful work with troubled students.
2.We see ourselves as preparing kids for a way of life—by cultivating a comprehensive set of principles that can affect all kids. (Para. 2) Meaning: We think our duty is to prepare students for a way of life—by teaching them a complete set of principles that can influence all students.
Don’t confuse ‘comprehensive’ with ‘comprehensible’, which means ‘easy to understand’.
The book is written in clear, comprehensible language. 这本书语言清楚易懂。

3. Now, Joe Gauld is trying to spread his controversial Character First idea to public, inner-city schools willing to use the tax dollars spent on the traditional program for the new approach. (Para. 3)
Meaning: Now Joe Gauld is trying to spread his idea that character comes first—an idea that has caused much public discussion and disagreement—to inner-city public schools which used to spend the tax dollars on the traditional program but now are willing to spend the money on the new program.
No te that ‘Joe’ stands for ‘Joseph’. People often use an informal and usually shorter form of someone’s first name, especially in conversation. Many names have traditional short forms. For example, people may call a person ‘Jim’ for ‘Jimmy’, ‘Rich’ for ‘Richard’, ‘Tom’ for ‘Tomas’, ‘Will’ for ‘William’, etc.
4. Last fall, the Hyde Foundation opened a magnet program within a public high school in the suburbs of New Haven, Connecticut, over parents’ protests. (Para. 4)
Meaning: Last fall, in spite of protests from parents, the Hyde Foundation opened an attractive program within a public school in the suburbs of New Haven, Connecticut.
A magnet program is one that attracts students by offering unique opportunities for in-depth experiences and study in specific educational fields.
5.Explaining his approach to education, Joe Gauld says the conventional education system cannot be reformed. (Para. 12)
Meaning: When he explains his approach to education, Joe Gauld says there is no way to improve the traditional education system; it should be replaced or revolutionized.
6.He notes ‘no amount of change’ with the horse and carriage ‘will produce an automobile’. (Para. 12)
Meaning: He points out that no matter what changes you make to the horse
and carriage, no automobile will come out of it.
7. Students are required to take responsibility for each other. (Para. 12) Meaning: Students should be responsible for themselves and show concern for others.
8. To avoid the controversy of other character programs used in US schools, Gauld says the concept of doing your best has nothing to do with forcing the students to accept a particular set of morals or religious values. (Para. 12) Meaning: In order to prevent arguments that other character programs in US schools have aroused, Gauld says the idea of doing your best doesn't mean forcing the students to accept a certain set of moral or religious values.
9.The Hyde curriculum is similar to conventional schools that provide preparation for college, complete with English, history, math and science. (Para. 13)
Meaning: The subjects that the Hyde School offers are almost the same as those in conventional schools that get students academically ready for college, with all necessary subjects such as English, history, math and science.
mitment among parents is a key ingredient in the Hyde mixture. (Para. 14)
Meaning: Parents’ devotion is an important element in the Hyde program. Here ‘mixture’ refers to the Hyde program that involves not only students and teachers but also parents.
11. For the student to gain admission, parents also must agree to accept and demonstrate the school’s philosophies and outlook. (Para. 14)
Meaning：For the student to be admitted into the school, parents also must agree to accept the school's ideas and beliefs and put them into practice. Don’t confuse the word ‘admission’ with ‘admittance’, which means ‘permission to enter a building’. For exa mple: No admittance. 禁止入内。

12.The parents agree in writing to meet monthly in one of 20 regional groups... (Para. 14)
Meaning: The parents present their agreement in written form, promising that they will attend meetings every month in one of the 20 regional groups...
13. The process for public school parents is still being worked out, with a lot more difficulty because it is difficult to convince parents that it is worthwhile
for them to participate. (Para. 15)
Meaning: Public schools are trying to deve lop ways for students’ parents to participate in school activities, but find it much more difficult because it’s difficult to make the parents believe that their participation will be good for them and their children.
14. The low attendance is in spite of commitments they made at the outset of the program when Hyde officials interviewed 300 families. (Para. 15) Meaning: The attendance of parents is low in spite of the promises they made at the beginning of the program when Hyde School officials interviewed 300 families.
15.Our focus is really about teacher to student and then we together deal with the... academics. (Para. 17)
Meaning: We really pay close attention to the relationship between teachers and students, and then we work together for the academic achievements. 16.In the traditional high school setting, it’s teacher to the material and then to the student. (Para. 17)
Meaning: In traditional high schools, the teacher’s attention is first paid to the teaching material, and then to the students.
17. The teacher-student relationship is taken even further at Hyde. (Para. 17) Meaning: The teacher-student relationship is developed to a more extensive degree at the Hyde School.
18.I came here and they said, ‘We kind of like that spirit. We don’t like it with the negative attitudes. We want to turn that spirit positive.’ (Para. 19) Meaning: I came to this school and they said, ‘We like that spirit a little bit. But we don’t like th e negative part of it. We want to make that spirit positive.’。