目录

  • 1 Unit 1. American Farm Life
    • 1.1 Lead-in. Farm life in the United States and Britain.
    • 1.2 General Reading. Mr. Doherty Builds His Dream Llife
    • 1.3 Text Explanations and Supplementary Readings
    • 1.4 Reading for Writing. Structure of a Paragraph
    • 1.5 Text Analysis. Cultural Terms and Topic Sentence
    • 1.6 Exercises
  • 2 Unit 2. Civil-Rights Heroes
    • 2.1 Lead-in. Black Slaves in America
    • 2.2 General reading.The Freedom Givers
    • 2.3 Text Explanations and Supplementary Readings
    • 2.4 Reading for Writing. A Biographical Story
    • 2.5 Text analysis. Cutural terms, Text Organization and Direct Speech
    • 2.6 Exercises
  • 3 Unit 3. Security
    • 3.1 Lead-in. Security in the United States
    • 3.2 General Reading.The Land of the Lock
    • 3.3 Text Explanations and Supplementary Readings
    • 3.4 Reading for Writing. A Contrast Between the Past and the Present
    • 3.5 Text Analysis. Keywords, Contrast and Irony
    • 3.6 Exercises
  • 4 Unit 4.The Human Touch
    • 4.1 Lead-in: O. Henry and His Short Stories
    • 4.2 General reading. The Last Leaf
    • 4.3 Text Explanations and Supplementary Readings
    • 4.4 Reading for Writing.The Beginning of a story.
    • 4.5 Text Analysis: Structure of Short Story
    • 4.6 Exercises
  • 5 Unit 5. Making a Living
    • 5.1 Lead-in: Bill Porter as a Salesman
    • 5.2 General Reading. Life of a Salesman
    • 5.3 Text Explanations and Supplementary Readings
    • 5.4 Reading for Writing: Writing about the Life of a Person
    • 5.5 Text Analysis: Feature Story
    • 5.6 Exercises
  • 6 Unit 6.
    • 6.1 Lead-in
    • 6.2 General Reading. Electronic Waste
    • 6.3 Text Explanations and Supplementary Readings
    • 6.4 Reading for Writing
    • 6.5 Text Analysis
    • 6.6 Exercises
    • 6.7 Appendix-1
      • 6.7.1 country life
      • 6.7.2 living in C&C
      • 6.7.3 preserves
      • 6.7.4 Ivy league
      • 6.7.5 dogsled
      • 6.7.6 Insurance
      • 6.7.7 trade of slavers
      • 6.7.8 quaker
      • 6.7.9 religion
      • 6.7.10 modern day slavery
    • 6.8 Appendix-2
      • 6.8.1 crime and security
      • 6.8.2 land of the lock
      • 6.8.3 airport security
      • 6.8.4 rape whistles
      • 6.8.5 count the carriages in her funeral
      • 6.8.6 port wine
      • 6.8.7 wicked I was
    • 6.9 Appendix-3
      • 6.9.1 door-to-door salesman
      • 6.9.2 handicap
      • 6.9.3 ads
      • 6.9.4 rights
Reading for Writing.The Beginning of a story.

Reading for Writing

After having studied the first part of The Last Leaf, you can try to write the beginning of a story you want to tell. This story can be real or imaginative. You should include such elements as setting, main character(s) and complications. Your writing should be within the limits of 120-150 words.





The rubric (评分标准)includes the following four aspects:

1. Content: 内容

2. Organization: 结构

3. Vocabulary: 词汇

4. Language use: 语言使用


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