Literature and English
Teaching Class Workshop
Gao Jian
College of English Language and Literature, SISU
Principles of the workshop
 Literature
orientated
 Relevance to the textbook
 The highlight of perspectives
 The share of your golden experience
Contents
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Section One:
the importance of quotations
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Section Two:
the openness of poetry
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Section Three:
the awareness of cultural comparison
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Section Four:
the essentials of classics
Section One:
 Why
the importance of quotations
are quotations important?
 How to choose quotations?
 How to make full use of the quotations?
Case Study: College life
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The things taught in schools and colleges are not an
education, but the means to an education. --------Emerson
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting
of a fire.--------Yeats
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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help
him find it within himself. --------Gallileo
Case Study: College life
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1）A university is what a college becomes when the
faculty loses interest in students. John Ciardi
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2）What we become depends on what we read after all of
the professors have finished with us. The greatest
university of all is a collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
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3）The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most
important things that any University can teach. Oscar
Wilde
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4）Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and
diamonds are dimmed. Robert Green Ingersoll
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5）A man who has never gone to school may steal from a
freight car; but if he has a university education, he may
steal the whole railroad. Theodore Roosevelt
Case Study: Parents and Children
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To understand your parents’ love you must raise children
yourself.-------Chinese Proverb
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As long as you have the blessing of your parents, it does
not matter even if you live in the mountains. ------Greek
Proverb
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think
she enjoyed it. -----Mark Twain
Case Study: Parents and Children
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they
grow older they judge them; sometimes they
forgive them. Oscar Wilde

Your children are not your children. They are the
sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you, and
though they are with you, yet they belong not to
you. Kahlil Gibran
Section Two:
 The
the openness of poetry
power of poetry
 The length of poetry
 The subject of poetry
Section Two: The Sick of Rose
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O
Rose, thou art sick!
Has found out thy bed
The invisible worm
Of crimson joy:
That flies in the night,
And his dark secret love
In the howling storm,
Does thy life destroy.
All Nature is But Art, unknown to thee
By Alexander Pope
 All
Nature is But Art, unknown to thee;
All chance, direction which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good;
And Spite of pride，in erring reason's spite,
One truth is clear: whatever is, is right.
Section Three: awareness of cultural diversity
One Word is Too Often Profaned by Percy Bysshe Shelley
•
One word is too often profaned
For me to profane it;
One feeling too falsely disdained
For thee to disdain it;
One hope is too like despair
For prudence to smother;
And pity from thee more dear
Than that from another.
•
I can give not what men call
love;
But wilt thou accept not
The worship the heart lifts
above
And the heavens reject not, The desire of the moth for the
star,
Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion to something afar
From the sphere of our sorrow?
Section Three: 中国人的爱情观
夜雨寄北
月夜
君问归期未有期，
今夜鄜州月，闺中只独看。
巴山夜雨涨秋池。
遥怜小儿女，未解忆长安。
何当共剪西窗烛，
香雾云鬟湿，清辉玉臂
却话巴山夜雨时。 寒。
何时倚虚幌，双照泪痕干。
A Widow Bird Sate Mourning For Her Love
Percy Bysshe Shelley
•
A widow bird sate mourning for her Love
Upon a wintry bough;
The frozen wind crept on above,
The freezing stream below.
There was no leaf upon the forest bare,
No flower upon the ground,
And little motion in the air
Except the mill-wheel's sound.
诗中有画，画中有诗
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Robert Frost
•
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
•
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
•
•
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Ode on Solitude
By Alexander Pope
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1 Happy the man, whose wish and care
2
A few paternal acres bound,
3 Content to breathe his native air,
4
In his own ground.
5 Whose herds with milk, whose fields with
bread,
6 Whose flocks supply him with attire,
7 Whose trees in summer yield him shade,
8
In winter fire.
•
9 Blest, who can unconcern'dly find,
10
Hours, days and years slide soft away,
11 In health of body, peace of mind,
12
Quiet by day,
13 Sound sleep by night; study and ease,
14
Together mixt; sweet recreation;
15 And innocence which most does please,
16
With meditation.
17 Thus let me live, unseen, unknown,
18
Thus unlamented let me die,
19 Steal from the world, and not a stone
20
Tell where I lie
归田园居 陶渊明
 少无适俗韵，性本爱丘山。误落尘网中，一去三十
年。羁鸟恋旧林，池鱼思故渊。开荒南野际，守拙
归园田。方宅十馀亩，草屋八九间。榆柳荫后檐，
桃李罗堂前。暧暧远人村，依依墟里烟。狗吠深巷
中，鸡鸣桑树巅。户庭无尘杂，虚室有馀闲。久在
樊笼里，复得返自然。
Section Four: why classics?
◎ 阅读活动的三个层次
 一般层次 → 认知性阅读：
What does it mean?
 较高层次 → 评判性阅读：
How does it mean (what it means)?
 更高层次 → 鉴赏性阅读：
How does the text acquire its meaning?
Why is it valued as it is?
鉴赏性阅读是评判性阅读的延伸与拓展
Section Four: Case Studies
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The Importance of One’s Own Language. John Locke
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The definition of A Gentleman John Henry Newman
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Companionship of Books Samuel Smiles
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Beauty
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Knowledge and Progress
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My Days
Henry David Thoreau
Thank

you
for your participation.