週次
Week |
課程主題
Topic |
課程內容與指定閱讀
Content and Reading Assignment |
教學活動與作業
Teaching Activities and Homework |
學習投入時間
Student workload expectation |
課堂講授
In-class Hours |
課程前後
Outside-of-class Hours |
1 |
Review of Fall Semester;
Planning;
Semester goals; |
Time Management; vocabulary review; study skills |
Literature Circles planning, book choices |
2 |
3 |
2 |
Biography
Literature Circles
Book choices:
fiction |
"Ruth Bader Ginsberg"
|
Reading Quiz; Discussion; |
2 |
3 |
3 |
Solitude
Literature Circles 13 |
“A Few Shells” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
Reading/Discussion
Group Discussions |
2 |
3 |
4
|
Family Relationships |
"The Last Christimas I Spent with my Mother" |
Reading/DiGroup Discussionsscussion |
2 |
5 |
Literature Circles 3
Evaluation |
Quiz on reading selections |
Reading Quiz; Reading/Discussion |
2 |
3 |
6 |
Literature Circles 4
Gender |
“Gender Equality as a Development Goal” |
Reading/Discussion |
2 |
3 |
7 |
Choices
Class reader 1 |
“None of this is Fair” by Richard Rodriguez
The Giver |
Reading/Discussion |
2 |
3 |
8 |
Class reader 2
Public Policy
|
The Giver “
"Canada's Food Guide" |
Reading/Discussion |
2 |
3 |
9 |
Class reader 3
Evaluation |
The Giver
Reading Selections |
Reading/Discussion
Reading Quiz |
2 |
3 |
10 |
Class reader 4
Culture/Teaching
Literature Circles II:
Fiction Book Choices
|
The Giver
“Voices from the Periphery: Non-Native Teachers and Issues of Credibility” |
Reading/Discussion
|
2 |
3 |
11 |
Reading Research Papers
Language |
Handouts
“Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan |
Reading/Discussion |
2 |
3 |
12 |
Reading Research Papers
Family Relationships |
Handouts
“Four Generations |
Reading/Discussion |
2 |
3 |
13 |
Evaluation
Focus on reading:
Readability Exercise |
Reading Selections |
Reading/Discussion
Reading Quiz |
2 |
3 |
14 |
Focus on vocabulary
History |
Stringnet Exercise
"History of Anti-Vaccination Movements" |
Reading/Discussion |
2 |
3 |
15 |
Public Policy
|
"National Vaccination Policy"
|
Reading/Discussion |
2 |
3 |
16 |
Review
Lifestyle222 |
books and reading selections
"The Year of Hygge, the Danish Obsession with Getting Cozy" |
Reading/Discussion |
17 |
Vocabulary Evaluation |
Exercises and quizzes |
Exercises and quizzes |
2 |
3 |
18 |
Evaluation |
Oral and Written Tests |
|
2 |
3 |