Unit 7 Not on My Block I.Teaching Aims 1.Enlarge the students'vocabulary by leamning the new words and doing the vocabulary exercises. 2.Help the studentsto get the general idea of the article 3.Help the students to leamn howto face challenges. 4.Help the students to build up their language skills through more exercises on oral practice,phrases and expression,grammar,writing.etc II.Key and Difficult Points 1.New Words and Phrases stoop,vacant,shoot up,occupy,rage,drift,rise to,confront,check in on,take to, take a stand,wage.prompt,step up.get through to sb 2.Sentences (1)Once inside,Armstead locked the door and peered out the window. (2)Armstead had no illusions about the men who occupied her front steps (3)But it wasn't the first time she'd risen to an unexpected challenge. (4)Armstead's insides were turning over,but she knew she couldn't show her fear. (5)"This is my space,"she said calmly and quietly,keeping her facea mask III.Teaching Methods Discussion,explanation,ask and answer IV.Time:4 periods V.Teaching Procedures:
Unit 7 Not on My Block I. Teaching Aims 1. Enlarge the students’ vocabulary by learning the new words and doing the vocabulary exercises. 2. Help the students to get the general idea of the article. 3. Help the students to learn how to face challenges. 4. Help the students to build up their language skills through more exercises on oral practice, phrases and expression, grammar, writing, etc. II. Key and Difficult Points 1. New Words and Phrases stoop, vacant, shoot up, occupy, rage, drift, rise to, confront, check in on, take to, take a stand, wage, prompt, step up, get through to sb. 2. Sentences (1) Once inside, Armstead locked the door and peered out the window. (2) Armstead had no illusions about the men who occupied her front steps. (3) But it wasn’t the first time she’d risen to an unexpected challenge. (4) Armstead’s insides were turning over, but she knew she couldn’t show her fear. (5) “This is my space,” she said calmly and quietly, keeping her face a mask. III. Teaching Methods Discussion, explanation, ask and answer IV. Time: 4 periods V. Teaching Procedures:
Step one Introduction 1.Warm-up questions: Give the students the following topics to discuss and then ask them to answer these questions (1)Suppose a friend of yours is involved in illegal activities.What would you do to help him mend his way? (2)What will you do if you know someone living in your neighborhood is taking drugs or is a drug dealer? (3)Do you know the story of the prodigal son? 2.Background Information (1)The Oliver neighborhood of East Baltimore An area of approximately thirty-two square blocks in east-central Baltimore City. The district consists of brick row houses that are still residential.Interspersed among these structures are quite a few brick and stone churches and public service buildings. such as firehouses and schools.The district contains around 2,000 buildings.Though the houses have suffered from the neglect of maintenance,they are generally in good shape,and a small amount of restoration activity is occuring in the neighborhood (2)Illegal drug trade and drug dealers For some drugs,large-scale drug production is not usually located in developed countries where those drugs are illegal-rather,those drugs are often manufactured or harvested in developing nations where corruption and instability allows producers to operate with minimal interference from law enforcement agencies.High demand for illegal drugs on the black market leads to the formation of complex illegitimate production,smuggling.and distribution networks that span national borders and generate billions of dollars of revenue. Illegal supply to consumers is generally via criminal"drug dealers"who purchase drugs in bulk or produce their own.Such dealers are stereotypically associated with organized crime syndicates,though in reality they often work freelance and bear no connection to organized criminal groups.The motivations
Step one Introduction 1. Warm-up questions: Give the students the following topics to discuss and then ask them to answer these questions. (1) Suppose a friend of yours is involved in illegal activities. What would you do to help him mend his way? (2) What will you do if you know someone living in your neighborhood is taking drugs or is a drug dealer? (3) Do you know the story of the prodigal son? 2. Background Information (1) The Oliver neighborhood of East Baltimore An area of approximately thirty-two square blocks in east-central Baltimore City. The district consists of brick row houses that are still residential. Interspersed among these structures are quite a few brick and stone churches and public service buildings, such as firehouses and schools. The district contains around 2, 000 buildings. Though the houses have suffered from the neglect of maintenance, they are generally in good shape, and a small amount of restoration activity is occurring in the neighborhood. (2) Illegal drug trade and drug dealers For some drugs, large-scale drug production is not usually located in developed countries where those drugs are illegal — rather, those drugs are often manufactured or harvested in developing nations where corruption and instability allows producers to operate with minimal interference from law enforcement agencies. High demand for illegal drugs on the black market leads to the formation of complex illegitimate production, smuggling, and distribution networks that span national borders and generate billions of dollars of revenue. Illegal supply to consumers is generally via criminal “drug dealers” who purchase drugs in bulk or produce their own. Such dealers are stereotypically associated with organized crime syndicates, though in reality they often work freelance and bear no connection to organized criminal groups. The motivations
for participation in the drugtrade vary greatly depending on the specific drug. (3)Foster care Children enter foster care when an assessment indicates a child will be at risk for harm if they remain in the home,and need to live outside of the family home to be safe.A child may need foster care because the child is a victim of abuse or neglect,or the parent/legal guardian has died,is in jail,abandoned the child,has an alcohol or drug abuse problem,or due to physical or mental illness,is unable to care for the child Sometimes a youth may run away from home to escape abuse and neglect or because he/she has conflicts with the rest of the family. Children who are removed from their parents'or legal guardian's homes are cared for in out-of-home placement settings such as foster care homes,group residential homes,residential care facilities or with a family member. (4)The tragic story of the Dawson family in Baltimore This shocking event happened in October,2002.The Dawson family-Angela Dawson,her husband,and five children-were all killed when a drug dealer set their house on fire in retaliation for Mrs.Dawson's undaunted stand against drug trafficking in their Baltimore neighborhood.On the picture,you can see the local people are commemorating the Dawson family 3.Listening Comprehension The Prodigal Son A man had two grown sons and the younger came to him and said,"Give me my share of the inheritance now."So his father divided all his assets and gave the younger son his share.The first born was to inherit a double portion so the younger son now had one third of all his father's property.Soon after this the younger son took everything his father had given him and went away to adistant country where he lived a debauched life and used up everything.Just as he became poor a great famine spread over that country and the young man began to starve.Finally he had leamned his lesson and it came to him to retur to his father,"My father's lowliest servants have food in abundance and here I'm starving to death.I will go back to my father and
for participation in the drug trade vary greatly depending on the specific drug. (3) Foster care Children enter foster care when an assessment indicates a child will be at risk for harm if they remain in the home, and need to live outside of the family home to be safe. A child may need foster care because the child is a victim of abuse or neglect, or the parent / legal guardian has died, is in jail, abandoned the child, has an alcohol or drug abuse problem, or due to physical or mental illness, is unable to care for the child. Sometimes a youth may run away from home to escape abuse and neglect or because he / she has conflicts with the rest of the family. Children who are removed from their parents’ or legal guardian’s homes are cared for in out-of-home placement settings such as foster care homes, group residential homes, residential care facilities or with a family member. (4) The tragic story of the Dawson family in Baltimore This shocking event happened in October, 2002. The Dawson family — Angela Dawson, her husband, and five children — were all killed when a drug dealer set their house on fire in retaliation for Mrs. Dawson’s undaunted stand against drug trafficking in their Baltimore neighborhood. On the picture, you can see the local people are commemorating the Dawson family. 3. Listening Comprehension The Prodigal Son A man had two grown sons and the younger came to him and said, “Give me my share of the inheritance now.” So his father divided all his assets and gave the younger son his share. The first born was to inherit a double portion so the younger son now had one third of all his father’s property. Soon after this the younger son took everything his father had given him and went away to a distant country where he lived a debauched life and used up everything. Just as he became poor a great famine spread over that country and the young man began to starve. Finally he had learned his lesson and it came to him to return to his father, “My father's lowliest servants have food in abundance and here I'm starving to death. I will go back to my father and
tell him,Father,I have sinned against heaven and before you;I am no longer worthy to be called your son.Please take me on as one of your hired servants.""So he returned home and while he was still far down the road his father saw him and recognized him and was full of mercy.He excitedly ran out to meet him and hugged and kissed him.He told his servants,"Go and fetch the best robe and sandals and a ring for his finger and clothe him.Go and prepare a banquet:we will have a feast and celebrate,for this my son who was dead is alive again-he was lost but now is found." 4.Introductory Remarks What is your first reaction when you hear about"gangsters"or"drug dealers"?I guess most of us will try our best to stay away from them.But what if they are in your neighborhood?Hide inside your house and pray for the best?Ethel Armstead,the heroine of our text,didn't think so.One day she plucked up courage to go out and talk to the drug dealers who used to hang out on the stoop of her newly purchased house. At first she demanded they leave,and later she warned them against the danger of drug dealing.And her efforts eventually worked. Step Two Global reading Give the students 10 minutes to read the text as quickly as they can,and ask them to think about these questions in the process of reading 1.True or False Questions: (1)Ethel didn't realize that drug dealers frequented her "new"house until she moved in (2)Ethel had moved from a respectable neighborhood (3)The police were responsive to Ethel's phone calls for help. (4)Ethel confronted the drug dealers the first night she moved in. (5)Drug dealers sat down on her stoop when Ethel made her demand for them to leave. (6)Drug dealers later became friendly with Ethel
tell him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Please take me on as one of your hired servants.’” So he returned home and while he was still far down the road his father saw him and recognized him and was full of mercy. He excitedly ran out to meet him and hugged and kissed him. He told his servants, “Go and fetch the best robe and sandals and a ring for his finger and clothe him. Go and prepare a banquet; we will have a feast and celebrate, for this my son who was dead is alive again — he was lost but now is found.” 4. Introductory Remarks What is your first reaction when you hear about “gangsters” or “drug dealers”? I guess most of us will try our best to stay away from them. But what if they are in your neighborhood? Hide inside your house and pray for the best? Ethel Armstead, the heroine of our text, didn’t think so. One day she plucked up courage to go out and talk to the drug dealers who used to hang out on the stoop of her newly purchased house. At first she demanded they leave, and later she warned them against the danger of drug dealing. And her efforts eventually worked. Step Two Global reading Give the students 10 minutes to read the text as quickly as they can, and ask them to think about these questions in the process of reading. 1. True or False Questions: (1) Ethel didn’t realize that drug dealers frequented her “new” house until she moved in. (2) Ethel had moved from a respectable neighborhood. (3) The police were responsive to Ethel’s phone calls for help. (4) Ethel confronted the drug dealers the first night she moved in. (5) Drug dealers sat down on her stoop when Ethel made her demand for them to leave. (6) Drug dealers later became friendly with Ethel
(7)People discouraged Ethel from taking a stand against drug dealers. (8)Ethel went ahead with her efforts all alone. (9)Some drug dealers were grateful to Ethel for her"fussing." (10)Drug dealers in general are reasonable people. 2.Structure Part1 (Para.1-4) After Mrs.Armstead moved into the row house,she found drug dealers and addicts often appeared on her stoop. Part 2 (para.5-16) Mrs.Armstead fought against those drug dealers and they became friendly with her. Part3 (Para.17) Mrs.Armstead participated in a community organization to step up the efforts of fighting against drug dealing. 、Part4(18-19) Mrs.Armstead felt good with one drug dealer showing gratitude toher. Step Three Detailed study Explain the important and difficult points in the text,including the usage of new wordsand phrases,structure of complex sentences and relevant grammar 1.The marble stoop would be a perfect spot to sit on summer evenings stoop n门廊 bend the body forwards and downwards俯身，弯腰 e.g.She stooped to pick a flower. He stooped his head and got into the car. 2.Once inside,Armstead locked the door and peered out the window. Note:“once”is a conjunction here,meaning“as soon as” Once (she was)inside,Armstead locked the door and peered out the
(7) People discouraged Ethel from taking a stand against drug dealers. (8) Ethel went ahead with her efforts all alone. (9) Some drug dealers were grateful to Ethel for her “fussing.” (10) Drug dealers in general are reasonable people. 2. Structure Part1 (Para.1-4) After Mrs. Armstead moved into the row house, she found drug dealers and addicts often appeared on her stoop. Part 2 (para.5-16) Mrs. Armstead fought against those drug dealers and they became friendly with her. Part3 (Para.17) Mrs. Armstead participated in a community organization to step up the efforts of fighting against drug dealing. Part4 (18-19) Mrs. Armstead felt good with one drug dealer showing gratitude to her. Step Three Detailed study Explain the important and difficult points in the text, including the usage of new words and phrases, structure of complex sentences and relevant grammar. 1. The marble stoop would be a perfect spot to sit on summer evenings. stoop n. 门廊 v. bend the body forwards and downwards 俯身，弯腰 e.g. She stooped to pick a flower. He stooped his head and got into the car. 2. Once inside, Armstead locked the door and peered out the window. Note: “once” is a conjunction here, meaning “as soon as”. Once (she was) inside, Armstead locked the door and peered out the