California
Reading
Teaching Objectives
(1) Learn some detailed information about the history of California.
(2) Develop the Ss' some basic reading skills through reading activites.
(3) Train the Ss 'speaking ability by time order. (Talk about the important events in California history)
Teaching important points
Enable the students learn how to talk about the imporlant events in California history.
Teaching difficult points
Enable the students to explain the reasons why Califonia is such a multicultural community in the 21st century.
Teaching methods
fast reading, careful reading and role playing
Teaching aids
a computer a blackboard, a video
Teaching procedures
Step One Warming up
Analyze the title
Purpose: To lead in the topic of the text
Look at a map of USA, and find out where California is
Purpose: Review what we’ve learned
Step Two Pre--reading
Appreciate some pictures of California
Purpose: To arouse the students' interest of this text
Step Three While-reading
Fast reading
I Whar is the text about
2. How many kinds of immigrants are mentioned in this text?
Purpose: To get a brief understanding of the text and find out the necessary information in a short time through fast reading
Carefiul reading
Para. 1 What does the first paragraph mainly talk ahout
Para. 2 Read and fill in the form
Para. 3 Fill in the form (Note down the important evens
Para. 4-5 Note down the even happened in 1848 and 1850
Do some T or F questions
Enjoy a video about the California Gold Rash
Para. 6-10 Fill in the form
Purpose: To grasp the details of the text so that they can have a good understanding and talk about the important events in California history
Step Four Post-reading
Make a summary
Role playing
Purpose: To recall the history of California they learned in this lesson and try to organize words to retell it
Step Five Homework
Blackboard design
Unit 1 A land of diversity
California
multicultural — history — immigrants/settlers
Time Important events
15.000 years ago Native Americans (Bering Strait)
16th century-18th Europeans(Spanish)(killed, forced, died from, survived, fought took)
1821 part of Mexico
1846 American-Mexican war, USA won
1848 Gold discovered
1850 31st state of the US