本单元具体教学内容、教学基本要求、单元重点与难点

1. 教学内容

1）Romanticism

2）Sentimentalism

3）Poetry of The Graveyard School

4）The Lakeland poets

5）Thomas Gray

6）Exercises for critical thinking

2. 教学基本要求

1) Make students know the background of Romanticism.

2) Make clear about Romanticism, sentimentalism, Lakeland poets.

3) Make Ss master Thomas Gray's writing characteristics and his masterpieces.

4) Make Ss  know the sentimental feelings  by analyzing one of Gray's masterpieces.

3. 单元重点、难点 

重点：

1) The context of Romanticism;

2) Main ideas of Romanticism;

3) Know what sentimentalism is;

4) Thomas Gray's poetic style;

5) Lakeland poets and their masterpieces.

 

难点：

1) Why is Sentimentalism called Pre-romanticism?

2)  Main ideas of Romanticm;

3)  Know the relationship between Romanticism and Sentimentalism

4) A clearer understanding of  sentimentalism by analyzing concrete poems, for instance, Thomas Gray's masterpieces.