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Syllabus

Course: Advanced English I

Semester: Autumn, 2012

Grade: 2008

Level: Juniors

Course Description

This course, which covers a great variety of subjects selected from contemporary anthologies in different writing styles, is designed to help students acquire a fairly high degree of communicative competence.To accomplish this goal, students will receive intensive training in reading skills as well as in other basic language skills.Students will learn to develop their analysis and reference skills so that they may be able to think independently and work on their own.Course Objectives

 Encourage students to accommodate themselves to self-directed learning with

the help of English-English dictionaries and acce to library and Internet resources

 Activate students’ background knowledge about topics covered in the textbook  Expand students’ repertoire in the areas of vocabulary, grammar and discourse

analysis

 Promote students’ cro-cultural awarene and sensitivity

 Review, remedy and put to use what the students have already learned in the

past

Students Will Be Able To

1.Increase their linguistic repertoire and communicative competence

2.Describe or explain in general terms the topics covered in the textbooks

3.Recognize and understand different types or styles of texts and their corresponding linguistic characteristics such as the use of certain rhetorical devices

4.Search for further information about the topics covered—both in the library and on the Internet

Required Textbook

Yang, Limin.Contemporary College English V.Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Pre, 2002.Course Requirements:

1.Regular cla attendance is required.Three absences, whether excused or unexcused, will lead to failure in this course.Tardine is discouraged.Three tardy appearances equal one absence.2.Productive participation, good preparation, and courteous behavior in

claroom will help students improve their final grades.3.Academic honesty is required.Failure to comply with school policy will result in a grade of zero, and the person(s)concerned will have to bear other consequences as well.Grading Policy

Cla participation and performances:10%

Written Aignments:10%

Mid-term exam:20%

Final exam:60%

Tentative Course Schedule

Week 1-2Leon One

Week 3-4Leon Two

Week 5-6Leon Three

Week 7-8Leon Four

Week 9Mid-term Exam

Week 10Leon Five

Week 11-12Leon Six

Week 13-14Leon Seven

Week 15-16Leon Eight

Week 17-18Leon Nine

Week 19Final Exam

Note: This syllabus is subject to change with official school activities.Supplementary Materials:

1.Mother Tongue by Amy Tan

2.Pseudocommunities by David Ehrenfeld

3.鸣机夜课图 【清】蒋士铨

4.Letter, much too late by Wallace Stegner

5.The fourth state of matter by Jo Ann Beard

推荐课外阅读书目

1.The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin（《富兰克林自传》）（对比《了凡四训》）

2.Ralph Emerson: English Traits（《英国人的特性》或《英国特色》，有多种译本）

3.De Tocqueville: Democracy in America(Vol.2)(《论美国的民主》第二册)

4.David Thoreau: Walden（《瓦尔登湖》，有多种译本）

5.Upton Sinclair: The Jungle（《屠场》）（读前面约三分之一就够了）

6.Narrative of the Life Frederick Dougla, An American Slave, 1845.7.Alex Haley: Roots

8.Rachel Carson: Silent Spring(科学出版社英文版，《寂静的春天》，吉林人民出版社）

9.林达·利尔《自然的见证人：蕾切尔·卡森传》

10.《美国人民的历史》（西外图书馆）

11.《美国自由的故事》，商务出版社

12.《E．B．怀特随笔：重游缅湖》，《E．B．怀特随笔：这就是纽约》，上海译文出版社。

13.拉斯 卡萨斯《西印度史述略》商务印书馆

14.E．B．怀特《夏洛的网》

16.《动物解放》，青岛出版社（西外图书馆）（对比丰子恺《护生画集》，《莲池大师戒杀放生文》）

17.唐纳德·沃斯特《尘暴》，三联书店，2003

18.钱穆《国学新论》

19.纪晓岚《阅微草堂笔记》