Fresh Start
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❖ Nutshell magazine ❖ It's a monthly, web-based magazine with an email
newsletter component which contains short, interesting stories .
II Text Analysis
❖ 1.How did I feel the first day on campus after my parents had left?
❖ Lost, scared, self-conscious, ❖ 2.Please identify words or phrases that can reflect
❖ Activity 1: A Freshman’s Alphabet---description-and-guess game Direction: Some students will be given slips of paper, on which the word starting with a specific letter like a, b, c or anyone from the alphabet is printed. The students are required describe the word in sentences. The content must be related to college life and the exact word mustn't be mentioned. The other students are required to guess out the exact word with the hint of the first letter and what’s more to express their attitude towards the life aspect related to the word. Example: assignment.
Chronological order (time sequence)
Organization
POV
First person narrative (“I”)
Details
Sitting in the wrong class; Falling down in the café; Witnessing the upper class footballer having the same
Yet too many assignments are a real burden. The teacher has better leave us some space and time to arrange our study.
Preparation
❖ Recommended films related to American University life: Van Wilder (留级之王), “Dead Poets Society”(死 亡诗社)
ห้องสมุดไป่ตู้
Excerpt from “Dead Poets Society”
I went to the woods, because I wanted to live deliberately;
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life！ To put to rout all that was not life.
brother.
❖ 新鲜空气/新鲜蔬菜 ❖ 新做的面包 ❖ 新到的货 ❖ 淡水 ❖ 干净衣服 ❖ 一张干净纸 ❖ 容光焕发的肤色
❖ a second try ❖ 附加证据 ❖ 清晰的记忆 ❖ 新兵 ❖ 强劲的风 ❖ 她对办公室工作缺乏经验。 ❖ 她想对我弟弟无礼。
Part One Preparation
II Text
About the text
➢ In this autobiographical essay, the writer recounts her embarrassing moments during her first days of college.
❖ The text, written by Evelyn Herald (contemporary), appeared in Nutshell magazine in 1989.
first days of college– narration of the events
Part three: Para 10-14 Concluding part-- reflections
Structure of the text (2)
➢ Unlike an expository /argumentative writing, which usually expresses the main idea in a thesis statement, in a narrative writing, the point is shown through events:
It can be described as: this word starts with the letter “A”. it’s the job left by the teacher to us. We have to hand in on time.
The answer is assignment. T he attitude may be as following: it’s useful for us to review and to prepare.
experience
Part Division
1. Para. 1: Background or setting 2. Para. 3-5: Sitting in the wrong class 3. Para. 6-7: Falling down in the cafeteria 4. Para. 8-9: Witnessing the upper class
Unit One Fresh Start
Evelyn Herald
❖ military training
dormitory
classroom & library
❖ canteen
Star player
Basketball match
I Pre-reading Questions
❖ Do you remember your first days at college? Did anything special happen then?
❖ Did you have a plan when you first entered college? Has it changed now?
What meanings can you think of about “fresh”?
❖ fresh air/vegetables ❖ fresh bread ❖ fresh goods ❖ fresh water ❖ fresh clothes ❖ a fresh sheet of paper ❖ a fresh complexion ❖ a fresh attempt ❖ fresh evidence ❖ a fresh memory ❖ fresh recruits ❖ a fresh wind ❖ She's quite fresh to office work. ❖ She's trying to get fresh with my
❖ sitting in the wrong class, ❖ falling down in the cafeteria ❖ witnessing the upper-class football player having
the same experience.
Comprehension of the text Part 1( Para.1)
4. Why did the author have the impression that “ everyone on campus was watching me”?
❖ Q2:The author, being over-sensitive, was uneasy with her identity as a freshman. She thought a new student would attract others’ attention, as what she did or said was liable to be too naïve to be right.
his feeling. ❖ Pitifully, want nothing more than to find my way
safely to dorm room, watching me, keep my ears open and my mouth shut, no one notice
Comprehension of the text Part 1( Para.1)
footballer having the same experience
5. Para. 10-14: the insight into myself
Structure of the text (1)
Part one: Para 1 Introductory part– setting
Part two: Para 2-9 The author recalls a few incidents during her
And not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ❖ What’s the message the poem is delivering? Does it help you to realize how to live through your college life?
Stage 3 Personal reflections ❖ showing the meaning of the events
Reading Narrative
❖ What are the essential elements of a narrative?
a clear context
well-chosen details
5. What was her plan?
❖ She planned to act her way through college and hoped not to make mistakes.
Text type: Recount The basic structure of a recount:
Stage 1 Setting ❖ providing background information (e.g. who, when and
where)
Stage 2 Narration of the events
a logical, often chronological organization
an appropriate and consistent point of view
Discourse Analysis
Time; Location; Characters (major & minor)
Context
3. What does “first-gradish” mean? ❖ Q1: -ish– Foolish, childish ❖ First-gradish: having the qualities and
characteristics of a first-grade student. The first-gradish feeling is ❖ a mixture of helpless, disorientation, selfconsciousness, and a lack of confidence.
newsletter component which contains short, interesting stories .
II Text Analysis
❖ 1.How did I feel the first day on campus after my parents had left?
❖ Lost, scared, self-conscious, ❖ 2.Please identify words or phrases that can reflect
❖ Activity 1: A Freshman’s Alphabet---description-and-guess game Direction: Some students will be given slips of paper, on which the word starting with a specific letter like a, b, c or anyone from the alphabet is printed. The students are required describe the word in sentences. The content must be related to college life and the exact word mustn't be mentioned. The other students are required to guess out the exact word with the hint of the first letter and what’s more to express their attitude towards the life aspect related to the word. Example: assignment.
Chronological order (time sequence)
Organization
POV
First person narrative (“I”)
Details
Sitting in the wrong class; Falling down in the café; Witnessing the upper class footballer having the same
Yet too many assignments are a real burden. The teacher has better leave us some space and time to arrange our study.
Preparation
❖ Recommended films related to American University life: Van Wilder (留级之王), “Dead Poets Society”(死 亡诗社)
ห้องสมุดไป่ตู้
Excerpt from “Dead Poets Society”
I went to the woods, because I wanted to live deliberately;
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life！ To put to rout all that was not life.
brother.
❖ 新鲜空气/新鲜蔬菜 ❖ 新做的面包 ❖ 新到的货 ❖ 淡水 ❖ 干净衣服 ❖ 一张干净纸 ❖ 容光焕发的肤色
❖ a second try ❖ 附加证据 ❖ 清晰的记忆 ❖ 新兵 ❖ 强劲的风 ❖ 她对办公室工作缺乏经验。 ❖ 她想对我弟弟无礼。
Part One Preparation
II Text
About the text
➢ In this autobiographical essay, the writer recounts her embarrassing moments during her first days of college.
❖ The text, written by Evelyn Herald (contemporary), appeared in Nutshell magazine in 1989.
first days of college– narration of the events
Part three: Para 10-14 Concluding part-- reflections
Structure of the text (2)
➢ Unlike an expository /argumentative writing, which usually expresses the main idea in a thesis statement, in a narrative writing, the point is shown through events:
It can be described as: this word starts with the letter “A”. it’s the job left by the teacher to us. We have to hand in on time.
The answer is assignment. T he attitude may be as following: it’s useful for us to review and to prepare.
experience
Part Division
1. Para. 1: Background or setting 2. Para. 3-5: Sitting in the wrong class 3. Para. 6-7: Falling down in the cafeteria 4. Para. 8-9: Witnessing the upper class
Unit One Fresh Start
Evelyn Herald
❖ military training
dormitory
classroom & library
❖ canteen
Star player
Basketball match
I Pre-reading Questions
❖ Do you remember your first days at college? Did anything special happen then?
❖ Did you have a plan when you first entered college? Has it changed now?
What meanings can you think of about “fresh”?
❖ fresh air/vegetables ❖ fresh bread ❖ fresh goods ❖ fresh water ❖ fresh clothes ❖ a fresh sheet of paper ❖ a fresh complexion ❖ a fresh attempt ❖ fresh evidence ❖ a fresh memory ❖ fresh recruits ❖ a fresh wind ❖ She's quite fresh to office work. ❖ She's trying to get fresh with my
❖ sitting in the wrong class, ❖ falling down in the cafeteria ❖ witnessing the upper-class football player having
the same experience.
Comprehension of the text Part 1( Para.1)
4. Why did the author have the impression that “ everyone on campus was watching me”?
❖ Q2:The author, being over-sensitive, was uneasy with her identity as a freshman. She thought a new student would attract others’ attention, as what she did or said was liable to be too naïve to be right.
his feeling. ❖ Pitifully, want nothing more than to find my way
safely to dorm room, watching me, keep my ears open and my mouth shut, no one notice
Comprehension of the text Part 1( Para.1)
footballer having the same experience
5. Para. 10-14: the insight into myself
Structure of the text (1)
Part one: Para 1 Introductory part– setting
Part two: Para 2-9 The author recalls a few incidents during her
And not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ❖ What’s the message the poem is delivering? Does it help you to realize how to live through your college life?
Stage 3 Personal reflections ❖ showing the meaning of the events
Reading Narrative
❖ What are the essential elements of a narrative?
a clear context
well-chosen details
5. What was her plan?
❖ She planned to act her way through college and hoped not to make mistakes.
Text type: Recount The basic structure of a recount:
Stage 1 Setting ❖ providing background information (e.g. who, when and
where)
Stage 2 Narration of the events
a logical, often chronological organization
an appropriate and consistent point of view
Discourse Analysis
Time; Location; Characters (major & minor)
Context
3. What does “first-gradish” mean? ❖ Q1: -ish– Foolish, childish ❖ First-gradish: having the qualities and
characteristics of a first-grade student. The first-gradish feeling is ❖ a mixture of helpless, disorientation, selfconsciousness, and a lack of confidence.