Unit 4
Dance with love
UNDERSTANDING AND LEARNING易经卜卦
Overview:
Unit 4 is designed to let students navigate their college romance. Text A tells a love story about two college sweethearts, while Text B prents an image of a college girl who is in love and wants to initiate the first step to date a boy. The two texts have the same theme, but the dating practices are somewhat different: One is more traditional and the other more modern. Though the rhetoric modes ud in both texts are narrative, Text B, however, is also more like an exposition, with the girl’s opinion about dating being clearly stated: what kind of date is most beneficial, who should initiate , and who should pay. The teacher may want to expo students to the elaborated description of the girl’s inner struggle. To let students find out what kind of date they really want and how they can deal with it properly, t
he teacher may start with a class discussion, bad on the pre-reading activities, and then proceed to a story-telling activity on the topic of “love just happens when you least expect it”. The activity contains two layers: from oral to writing.
Section A
College sweethearts
浪漫旅途
Background information
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Campus romance in the 1960s in the United States
The 1960s in the United States are often perceived today as a period of profound societal change. Attitudes to a variety of issues changed, sometimes radically, throughout the decade. The urge to “find onelf”, the activism of the 1960s, and the quest for autonomy were characterized by changes toward xual attitudes and practices, particularly among the young. The changes to xual attitudes and behavior during the period are often referred to as the “xual revolution”. The xual revolution was often en to have been
centered on the university campus, among students. While the term “revolution” implies radical and widespread change, this was not necessarily in the ca. Even in the “liberal” 1960s, conrvative and traditional views were widely held. The love story in Text A coincides with what happened in that particular historical period of time in the United States. From the story students can e the main characters, college sweethearts back then, were actually following a more traditional pattern of dating, romantic but conrvative, a clear stream on campus in the 1960s.
Detailed study of the text
1. I smile at my two lovely daughters and they em so much more mature than we, their parents, when we were college sweethearts. (Para. 1)
Meaning beyond words: Married to her college sweethearts, the author now is happy with her family and two grown daughters.
2. Linda, who’s 21, had a boyfriend in her freshman year she thought she would marry, but they are not together anymore. Melissa, who提纲’s 19, hasn’t had a steady boyfriend yet. My daughters wonder when they meet “The One”, their great love. (Para. 1)
2. Meaning beyond words: Her two daughters are at the age of just dating, but they em to be very mature wondering when they will meet their true love.
3. They think their father and I had a classic fairy-tale romance heading for marriage from the outt. (Para. 1)
Meaning beyond words: Her daughters consider their parents’ marriage a typical conventional romance becau they think it aimed at marriage from the very beginning.
★ classic: 作文风景a.(usu. before noun) admired by many people, and having a value that has continued for a long time 经典的
The Coca-Cola bottle is one of the classic designs of the last century. 可口可乐瓶子上是
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上个世纪的经典设计之一。
Usage NOTE
Classic, classical
1. Classic 用作形容词表示“经典的；精彩的；一流的”。
例如：Death on the Nile is one of the classic Agatha Christie. 《尼罗河上的惨案》是阿加莎·克里斯蒂的经典作品之一。
口语中也会用到classic这个词。 当你看到一场精彩的演出时， 就可以说 “That’s classic!” 来表达赞美。Classic用作形容词也表示“典型的；标准的”。例如：London is the classic example of the scattered city.伦敦是标准分散型城市。
Classic也可用作名词，表示“文学名著；经典作品；杰作”。例如：We have all the standard classics of Hayao Miyazaki at home. 隐私文件我们家有宫崎骏的所有经典作品。
2. Classical不能用作名词，只能用作形容词，表示“古典的，经典的”。例如：Classical music is music written by compors such as Mozart and Beethoven. 像莫扎特和贝多芬所创作的音乐称为古典音乐。
莫扎特和贝多芬所创作的音乐属于古典音乐 (classical music), 但这些古典音乐经久不衰，
有永久的意义和价值，所以这些音乐也可称为经典的音乐 (classic music) 。反之，在前面有一例中说可口可乐瓶子的设计是精彩的，一流的，所以是经典 (classic) 之作，但很明显可口可乐瓶子的设计不是古典的 (classical) 设计。所以，经典的 (classic) 作品不一定就是古典的 (classical) 作品。
★ romance: n.
1) [C] a story about the love between two people爱情故事
You中国医科大学录取分数线’ll be in the joy of creation when writing a children’s story, a novel, or a romance. 当你写一部儿童故事，一部小说，或一部爱情故事时，你就会感受到创作的喜悦。
2) [U] love or a feeling of being in love爱情；恋爱
Many people believe that marriage is not an ever-lasting romance but like a business. 很多人认为，婚姻不是一个浪漫的结合，而是一种商业的行为。
★ head for: go or travel toward a particular place, esp. in a deliberate way (朝…) 前进；（向…）去
The ship was heading for Cuba, an island country in the Caribbean. 船只正航向古巴，它是一个位于加勒比海的岛国。
4. Perhaps, they’re right but it didn’t em so at the time. (Para. 1)
Meaning: My daughters’ perception may be right, yet our romance back then was actually not like what they have assumed.
