Unit one- Thinking as a Hobby (Part A)
Part One: Warm-up
Part Two: Background Information
Part Three: Text Appreciation
Part Four: Language Study
Part Five: Extension
Part One Warm-up
I. Picture Description
Plea describe the following pictures in detail and depict their symbolic meaning in your own words.
Compare your answer with that of the author, and try to find their symbolic meaning in the boy’s (the author) eyes.
II. Quotations on Thinking
“Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.”
—Edward de Bono（英）爱德华.德.博诺
“Most people can’t think, most of the remainder won’t think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can’t do it very well.”
—Robert Heinlein美国现代科幻小说之父的罗伯特·海因莱因
“I think, therefore I am.” —René DéscarteRene Descartes（笛卡尔）是法国历史上最大的哲学家
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“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”
—Socrates苏格拉底(469-399BC,reaching古希腊哲学家)
“We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.”
—Mao Zedong
“Thinking is what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
—William James美国心理学家、哲学家詹姆士（William James, 1842-1910）
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (英国政治家、作家狄斯雷利)
“What is the hardest task in the world? To think.”
几米漫画—Ralph Waldo Emerson拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生是19世纪美国文学的思想领袖、著名作家和超验主义哲学家
III. What Is Your Story?
Have you got an anecdote or true story about your school life?
Would you like to tell it to your partner?
Part Two: Background Information
I. Author
东瓜汤Author William Golding威廉·戈尔丁（ William Golding， 1911～ 1993）英国小说家。生于英格兰康沃尔郡一个知识分子家庭，自小爱好文学。 1930年遵父命入牛津大学学习自然科学，两年后转攻文学。1934年发表了处女作——一本包括心理罪陈希 29首小诗的诗集（麦克米伦当代诗丛之一）。1935年毕业于牛津大学，获文学士学位，此后在一家小剧团里当过编导和演员。 194o年参加皇家海军，亲身投入了当时的战争。 1945年退役，到学校教授英国文学，并坚持业余写作。1954年发表了长篇小说《蝇王》，获得巨大的声誉。1955年成为皇家文学会成员。1961年获牛津大学文学硕士学位，同年辞去教职，专门从事写作.戈尔丁是个多产作家. 戈尔丁在西方被称为“寓言编撰家”，他运用现实主义的叙述方法编写寓言神话，承袭西方伦理学的传统，着力表现“人心的黑暗”这一主题，表现出作家对人类未来的关切。由于他的小说“具有清晰的现实主义叙述技巧以及虚构故事的多样性与普遍性，阐述了今日世界人类的状况”，1983年获诺贝尔文学奖。
Sir William Gerald Golding (September 19, 1911—June 19, 1993) was an English novelist, poet and winner of 1983 Nobel Laureate in Literature:
“for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today.”
The author’s background:
Born on September 19, 1911 at St. Columb Minor, a village near Newquay, Cornwall, he started writing at the age of ven.
He went to Oxford University (Brano College) in 1930, where he studied natural sciences and English language. His first book, a collection of poems, appeared a year before Golding received his BA.
He married Ann Brookfield, an analytical chemist, in 1939. He became a teacher of English and philosophy at Bishop Wordsworth’s School in Salisbury.
During World War II he rved in the Royal Navy and was involved in the sinking of Germany’s mightiest battleship, the Bismarck. He participated in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day and at war’s end went back to teaching and writing.
In 1961 his successful books allowed Golding to leave his teaching post and he spent a
year as writer-in-residence at Hollins College in Virginia. He then became a full-time writer.
He received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II in 1988.
William Golding died in his home at Perranarworthal, near Truro, Cornwall on
June 19, 1993.
William Golding’s main works
Poems (1934)
Lord of the Flies (1954) Lord of the Flies is a thought-provoking novel authored by William Golding in 1954. The book describes in detail the horrific exploits of a band of young children who make a striking transition from civilized to barbaric. Lord of the Flies commands a pessimistic outlook that ems to show that man is inherently tied to society, and without it, we would likely return to savagery.
The Inheritors 《继承者》(1955)夏日荷花的诗句
Pincher Martin 《品契·马丁）（1956）
难忘的除夕
The Spire (1964) 《塔尖》（1964）
Darkness Visible (1979) 《看得见的黑暗》（1979）
The Trilogy Rites of Passage (1980, Booker Prize) 《航程祭典》（1980）
Clo Quarters平静的意思 (1987) 《近方位）（1987）
Fire Down Below (1989), republished under the general title To The Ends of the Earth
Quotations of the author
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
II. Rodin’s Thinker
奥古斯特·罗丹（Auguste Rodin, 1840－1917）法国雕塑艺术家，他在很大程度上以纹理和造型表现他的作品，倾注以巨大的心理影响力，被认为是19世纪和20世纪初最伟大的现实主义雕塑艺术家。他所塑造的人物都是忍辱负重、现实生活的内涵写照，他的艺术力量不是外在的呼喊，而是理性意义的表露，是内心情感与思想的自然爆发。他的取材但丁“神曲”的“地狱之门”这一与建筑紧密相连的巨大艺术工程，耗去了他后半生的整整37年，至逝世也未完成。 著作有《罗丹艺术论》。 Resting on the horizontal panel above the doors,
The Thinker became the focal point of The Gates of Hell and subquently perhaps the most well-known sculpture of all time. The athletic-looking figure, inspired by the sculpture of Michelangelo, depicts a man in sober meditation, yet who muscles strain with effort—possibly to evoke a powerful internal struggle. Rodin initially referred to the figure as Dante but eventually what we know as The Thinker evolved into a more symbolic reprentation of creativity, intellect, and above all—thought.
