One evening last winter, the sky was gloomy, the cold wind was rustling, and snowflakes were floating in the air. This is the first snow in the winter of 2004. I picked up the Yangzi Evening News that day and glanced at it casually. Intentionally or unintentionally, the title of a line of "migrant workers causing accidents, enthusiastic citizens paying for rescue" came into view. Then I watched it. The contents are as follows: Last night, around 10, a migrant worker in his fifties accidentally took off the down jacket of a Mr. Chen who was walking in front of him while carrying a bag of waste steel bars to the intersection of Changle Road and Jiangning Road. Mr. Chen is in a hurry. This down jacket of more than 400 yuan has just been bought. He quickly seized the migrant workers and demanded compensation, and called 1 10 to call the police. A few minutes later, 1 10 police rushed to the scene to mediate. Passers-by citizens have interceded for migrant workers. At this time, Mr. Chen saw that he really couldn't afford it, so he gave in, as long as he paid a sewing fee. But the migrant worker has no money at all, only this bag of waste steel bars weighing about 40 Jin. Just when even the police found it difficult to mediate, a citizen stood up and asked how much the bag of steel bars was worth. When the migrant workers said it was about 20 yuan, the citizen took out 20 yuan from his body and handed it to the migrant workers, saying that he bought the bag of steel bars. Migrant workers quickly handed the money to Mr. Chen again. Mr. Chen, who was moved, finally received only 10 yuan from migrant workers. This news is quite interesting. Out of professional sensitivity, the author realizes that it can be used as a topic for students to practice writing. However, just before I entered the classroom, I suddenly realized why I had to take it as a topic, and why not use it as the material for students to re-create and write various articles? For example, writing a narrative in the first person can be written as a migrant worker, a man surnamed Chen, a citizen who is eager to rescue you, a policeman, or a reporter, and write different performances and feelings of people in different identities and situations; Thematically, it can be conceived as "helping others enthusiastically", "caring for the vulnerable groups", "helping others needs to respect others more", "the infringer must bear his own responsibilities" or sublimated into "tolerance". A bright material in such a good life, if I regard it as a topic, it is bound to be limited to a certain theme. Isn't a little gold self-defeating? As expected, when I printed and distributed this material to the students for a little inspiration and guidance, the students, like the Eight Immortals, crossed the ocean and showed their abilities. Just looking at the topic made people see things in a blur. You see, the last snow in 2004, the first snow, the new atmosphere of the city, love is a word, the prelude to spring, and the compensation for precious love is priceless. Not only that, but also in style beyond the pre-envisaged, and some use the form of diary to write; Some have written rare narrative poems, which are not very poetic, but have begun to show the rhythm and rhythm of poetry; Some write argumentative papers to prove that "every citizen has the obligation to create a harmonious society", which is a brand-new conclusion full of the flavor of the times. This exercise swept away the wind of similarity, emptiness and falsehood, and stimulated students' writing interest and enthusiasm. One of the students didn't stop writing an article and tried to write three articles in a row. From this, the author naturally thought, can we carry out an experiment of "material composition" Two-material composition, to be precise, is "giving" material composition, just like building a house and making clothes. Before building a house, prepare relevant building materials, and before making clothes, candidates prepare fabrics. According to their own innovative consciousness, design level and operational ability, they build houses and tailor them to create and assemble ideal garden villas or Tang suits. Give students a story in life, or a short message and other writing materials. The genre is not limited and the thinking is independent. Its genre openness and ideological diversity are better than today's popular topic composition. From 1999 "If memory can be transplanted" as the first essay, until last year, most of the examination papers in the whole country and eleven provinces and cities kept this face. But after careful investigation, we found that the negative effect of topic composition is obvious. First, the cultural and sports training has faded. The openness of the topic affects the systematicness of composition teaching to a certain extent, increases the blindness of composition training, and causes mixed narrative and discussion, and the genre is neither donkey nor horse. The second is the weakening of theme refinement. Most topic compositions explicitly or implicitly define the theme, which is suspected of "theme first". Whether it is "the choice of soul" and "honesty" in the whole country or "ordinary and proud" and "language and communication" in some provinces, it not only violates the dialectical writing law of life and understanding, but also limits the ability of candidates to refine their thoughts. Having said that, I have to mention that the essay topic of Jiangsu Volume, "Smart Water, Steady Mountain", which is widely valued by people in the industry, is easy to understand. The topic has already implied a theme, and the author should remind me in the "attention" matters: autonomy. I don't know whether it's humorous or funny. Third, the composition is empty. The general procedure of topic composition is to set a paragraph, a poem or a fable, and then lead to a central topic. In the actual on-the-spot composition, none of the candidates read any poems or stories, and most of them directly grasped the central topic and started writing without thinking. What topic? The central topic is the topic. What idea? Just draw a ladle. This is how the stories, fables and myths in the so-called perfect composition come about in recent years. What's more, some topics are redundant and tedious, which affects the thinking. Take Jiangsu's composition as an example. There is such a passage in the test: the character of water and water-smart, the temperament of mountains and mountains-calm. The agility of water gives people wisdom, and the calmness of mountains gives people frankness. However, the smart sea water keeps the same blue color all year round, while the calm mountains change different colors in the four seasons. Although this passage is full of poetry and philosophy, if we judge the topic according to it, there should be a dialectical meaning, that is, "the smart water has a normal heart, and the quiet mountain has its evolution." Probably the author realized that the topic was too confusing to conceive, so he put forward such a request: Please take Lingshui Jingshan as the topic. Why not directly ask candidates to write on the topic of "the agility of water and the calmness of mountains"? Why do you have to go around a corner and let students try to figure out the meaning and rhyme of the poem, wasting time and letting students be disturbed by thinking for no reason? Material composition will undoubtedly avoid the embarrassment of composition on many topics. First of all, provide candidates with a basic life prototype to avoid students falling into the dilemma of exhausted life materials. Undoubtedly, the environment for students to study and live today is indeed better than any era and period. They have no worries about food and clothing, and they don't know whether it is hot or not. However, due to the pressure of academic competition and the evolution of modern life, their life experiences and aesthetic concepts are very different from ours and their predecessors. They know what brand-name clothes are and what level of officials are bigger. They also know Jay Chou's songs and Jackson's balls, eat KFC in their hands, and forget to eat or sleep online. But they don't know what dandelion and cuckoo are. They can't see the sunrise and sunset, and they can't see the horizon. They don't care about their parents who worry and nag for them all day, and they are too lazy to understand the sufferings of migrant workers who can't get paid. A considerable number of students lack the original ecological life. In their growing-up dictionaries, there are no words such as hunger, fatigue and turmoil in Pandora's Box, and they have no time to care about and pay attention to the complicated international situation, Zhang, Qu Qiubai, and so on. When did this happen? For such a "new human", what kind of topics do you want him to write to be literary, vivid and touching? How can you ask him to confess and play deep? Have you noticed that a few years ago, there was an essay entitled "Frustration" in the college entrance examination. Tens of thousands of candidates across the country are willing to make their fathers unhappy and their mothers remarry in exchange for the requirement of "encountering setbacks". Last year, a piece of paper named "Quiet Mountain and Smart Water" in Jiangsu made hundreds of thousands of candidates in the province collectively empty and express their feelings. Secondly, writing for materials conforms to the reality of students' Chinese on-site examination. In the limited examination room time, take the composition, Chinese basics and reading together, 150 minutes, except the first two parts 100 minutes, leaving about 50 minutes to process the composition. If the composition topic itself is big and empty, and the candidates have neither material nor thoughts, what is the difference between it and "silly daughter-in-law" cooking without rice? If not, in fact, in which year and province, reviewers are not allowed to sigh: this year, the content is fraudulent, emotional show, language withers, Chinese literacy and expression level are indistinguishable, and the advantages and disadvantages are unknown. We don't need to be hard on this. This is not difficult to understand. It is embarrassing and boring for us to give questions or for Chinese teachers to do such Chinese test papers. After the first 100 minute answer, the cerebral cortex begins to get tired, and then we can conceive and create such nonsense compositions as "judgment on feelings and things" or "material and immaterial", not to mention our talent. Also, material composition is more conducive to the usual composition teaching. On the basis of rich and vivid materials, students are guided to choose refinement, so that writing training such as writing style, conception and refinement can be systematized, and the writing process of "intention-embryo-materialization" can be implemented. Although these materials are primitive, emotional, or fragmentary and scattered, it is precisely because of this that they provide candidates with a more free and broad space for innovation, can more scientifically measure candidates' conception and expression ability, and better realize the writing ideal of "guiding students to express their true feelings, not telling lies, empty words and rhetoric, and avoiding creating feelings for the text" proposed by the implementation of the new curriculum. Beautiful villas or clothes that fit will come true.