Enlighten students to establish a correct outlook on life and values. Teaching emphases and difficulties: 1. The focus of teaching is to grasp the author's ideological tendency and guide students to explore "why am I alive?" 2. Teaching difficulties
Try to figure out the language and understand the author's thoughts and feelings. Teaching methods: guide students to read aloud, and give priority to inquiry teaching. Class arrangement: 1 class teaching steps: 1,
Create situations and introduce new lessons. 1, lead design "Why am I alive?" Throughout the ages, human beings have asked themselves this question countless times. The question of why we live is too simple and complicated. Some people have been busy all their lives and become passers-by without thinking; Some people are poor in classics and think hard, but they have never understood the mystery all their lives. Students here, have you considered this question? What are you living for?
Let's see how Russell answered this question today. 2. Author's brief introduction Bertrand Russell (1872— 1970) is a British philosopher, mathematician, social activist and political commentator.
1950 Nobel Prize in Literature Prize winner. Known by the West as an "encyclopedic writer". Second, study the text and explore learning. "Reading Russell's works is one of the most enjoyable things in my life."
-I Einstein 1, one student reads the text, the rest of the students listen, the pronunciation is correct, and the initial perception. 2. All students read the text with emotion and feel the whole. 3. Read the text by yourself and think about the question: (1) How many pursuits does the author have in his life? What is the difference? (2) Summarize the reasons why the author longs for love? (3) In what fields does the author seek knowledge? (4) Point out the concrete connotation of the author's sympathy for human suffering. Clear: pursuing love: "I owe a lot to those women I love." If it weren't for them, my heart would be much narrower. " Russell's Pursuit of Knowledge Russell wrote more than 3,000 words every day on average, and wrote 7 1 book in his life, covering philosophy, mathematics, politics, ethics, education, literature and sociology. Especially philosophy and mathematics. At the beginning of the 20th century, the basic research of modern mathematics has made a great achievement "Russell Paradox" and "type theory" to solve this paradox. Russell's logical atomism and neutral monism pioneered some schools of modern western philosophy. Russell 1950 won the Nobel Prize in Literature. At the age of 95, he finished writing Autobiography of Russell. Sympathy for suffering-Russell, a soldier who defends peace, has made many statements and speeches on safeguarding world peace and opposing the war of aggression. During World War II, he was imprisoned for six months for opposing the war, but he still did not change his original intention. At the beginning of 1955, Russell, Einstein and scientists from all over the world launched a campaign to ban nuclear signatures. 196 1 year, in order to oppose the development of nuclear weapons by the US government, 89-year-old Mrs. Russell Kay sat in front of the British Ministry of Defence and was sentenced to two months' imprisonment. The Russell Peace Foundation was established in 1964. 4. Inquiry thinking (1) thinking: How does the author relate these three passions? So what do you think of Russell's character? What kind of inspiration have we received? Key points: "Irrepressible sympathy for human suffering" is the real motivation for pursuing love and knowledge.
. The pursuit of love is because there is a microcosm of the paradise that human beings dream of; The pursuit of knowledge is because he is willing to dedicate all his wisdom and strength to mankind. All this stems from a brilliant dream in his heart: caring for human beings and saving people from the quagmire. In the plain narration, the author's broad feelings and lofty personality are fully displayed. (2) These three passions, teachers and classmates, like hurricanes, have blown me around in the deep sea of suffering to the verge of despair. "Like a Hurricane" shows intense passion, "deep suffering" refers to the suffering of life, and "on the verge of despair" refers to the author's desire to alleviate these sufferings, but he is powerless and suffers greatly. The author melts his feelings into vivid metaphors, which makes the language of the article implicit and vivid. 5. Reread the text to further feel Russell's lofty and great personality. Requirements: read calmly and excitedly; Read his persistent pursuit of love and knowledge and his great concern for human peace and tranquility; Read the generosity of philosophers. 6、
Russell is a humanist and pacifist with strong social concern. His mind is full of justice, conscience, wisdom and warmth, colorful and profound. This article can be regarded as Russell's life declaration, but it is actually a life principle shared by many great men at home and abroad, which has universal significance, so it can arouse people's * * *. Third, students list great men with lofty and broad minds at all times and in all countries. The teacher showed a picture projection: I have a dream Martin Luther King Albert Shi Huaizhe: One can't live only for oneself. We must realize that all life is precious, and we are combined with all life. This cognition guides the relationship between our mind and the universe. Arafat: "I came here with an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun. Please don't let the olive branch fall from my hand. " Fourth, the passion of life, discussion: how should I live? Fifth, teachers sum up and guide students to establish a correct outlook on life and values. Zhou: Be responsible for your own life. If a society is made up of members who are responsible for their own lives, then it must be a high-quality and efficient society. Sixth, assign homework to read after class: read Russell's essay "On the Coming of the Times".