,Thinking for Yourself,Watch the video clip and answer the following questions. What do you think of the teachers in the movie, especially Mr. Keating, the one who teaches poetry? Do you like him ? Why or why not?,Warming Up,Group discussion 1. What is your understanding of “Thinking for yourself”? 2. Is it important to think for yourself？Why or why not? 3. How do you learn to think for yourself？ 4. Is it possible to teach someone to think for themselves?,Read the following statement quoted from The Analects of Confucius. If one learns from others but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be imperilled. 学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆。,Warming Up,Read another statement quoted from Bertrand Russell, a British philosopher. Passive acceptance of the teachers wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life.,Warming Up,Education is not the filling of a vessel, but the kindling of a flame. - Socrates,Warming Up,Memory game,Are you smart at memory?,Look at the following words for 30 seconds and see how many words you can remember. Writing is not allowed.,More,Memory game,Group work: Discuss the methods you have used to remember these words.,Alphabet,Recombination,Imagery,Translation,Grouping,Alphabet,A,B,C,F,M,O,R,Algebra, Astronomy,Bombard,chilly,Frustration,Manacle,Overwhelm,Recall, Refreshing,Alphabet,Back,Grouping,Contrast: frustration/refreshing,Grouping,Attributes,Meaning,Subject: algebra/astronomy,n.: algebra, astronomy, frustration, manacle v.: bombard, overwhelm, recall adj.: chilly, refreshing,Parts of speech,Back,Recombination,Recombination,Construct a sentence by combining “chilly, manacle, frustration”.,Kings speech I Have A Dream reminds me of the frustration of those American slaves, crippled by the manacles of discrimination in the chilly winter.,More,Imagery,1. Visual images,2. Body language/personal acts,Imagery,bombard,astronomy,overgrown,manacle,chilly,More,Imagery,3. Mental picture of the situation in which the word might be used,Imagery,Back,Family broken,Fail again,No job, no money,Frustration,Text Comprehension, Browse the passage within 8 minutes to get a rough idea about it. Choose the best answer to the questions on page 32.,Argumentation,Regarded with suspicion,Evaluation,Step 1: Every step of real progress in our society has come from it.P.2,It should be popular.,Step 2: But In most circles thinking for yourself is regarded with suspicion. P.2,Unpopular,Step 3: Anecdote(轶事)P.3,Step 4: Rhetorical questions P. 4,Sad fact,Sighing for the dearth,Step 5: Hardly anyone has been encourage, much less trained.P. 5,The dearth should not surprise us.,Back,Narration,Occasionally encouraged,Evaluation,Step 1: Anecdote-A mentor wants to develop our own thinking P.6-19,A radical story,Step 2: Conclusion P.20,She at least introduced the concept into my academic life.,Starting point: Hardly anyone has been encouraged, much less trained. P.6,Occasionally,Back,Text organization,Thinking for yourself is still a radical act.,Occasionally encouraged,Regarded with suspicion,click,click,Evaluation,Thesis statement,Evaluation,(Para 1-5)Argumentation,Narration(Para 6-20),Reading beyond words(exercise 8 Page 33),1. Thinking for yourself is not a popular activity, though it should be. (Para. 2) 2. I was reminded of this sad fact at a party when a fellow guest asked my the subject of a book I was planning to write.(Para. 3) 3. For that matter, when was the last time somebody asked you, “what do you really think, really?” and then waited for you to answer at length?(Para. 4) 4. We may have learned to revere thinkers like Socrates, but we also learned that the state poisoned him for thinking for himself: not unmitigated encouragement.(Para. 5) 5. I remembered my hand gathering sweat around the pencil.(Para. 8),Identifying hidden meaning,Identifying hidden meaning,click,1. Thinking for yourself is not a popular activity, though it should be.(Para. 2),Read the following sentences and identify the hidden meaning.,Whose opinion does “though it should be” refer to?,It refers to the authors opinion who think that thinking for yourself should be popular and who hopes to share her opinion with readers.,More,Identifying hidden meaning,click,2. I was reminded of this sad fact at a party when a fellow guest asked my the subject of a book I was planning to write.(Para. 3),What is sad? What does this choice of word tell us?,Sad refers back to “thinking for yourself is seen as dangerous”.,More,By using a negative adj., the author shows her disapproval toward this attitude.,Identifying hidden meaning,3. For that matter, when was the last time somebody asked you, “what do you really think, really?” and then waited for you to answer at length?(Para. 4),What answer does the w