○Reading Skills in English IB[3435]

＜授業のねらい及び具体的な達成目標＞

The aim of this course is to improve the students’ abilities to engage textual material that is written in English. The focus will be on developing the students’ aptitudes in contemplating texts so that they will be better prepared to form opinions, arguments and conclusions based on the content presented in the texts. To achieve these goals, attention will be given to nurturing the students’ abilities to infer meanings from texts and to utilize critical thinking techniques in the analysis process. Students will be expected to display their skills in the above techniques in English, both orally and in written form.

＜授業計画＞

This class is a combination of 4 aspects of reading: Reading for pleasure, reading skills, thinking skills, and reading faster. Each week students will work on ALL of these skills. The second half of the semester will focus on critical thinking and forming opinions.

Schedule
1 Introduction to second semester
Pleasure reading: Introduce reading for pleasure, and reading journals.
Thinking Skills: Ex. 18, p. 169
Reading Faster: Passages 19 & 20, pp. 227-230
HW Choose book & read 30 mins./day HW Ex. 19, p. 170

2 Pleasure reading: Students introduce books
Reading skills: Unit 3 Inferring, Ex. 1-4, pp. 53-55
Thinking Skills: Discuss Ex. 19, p. 170
Reading Faster: Passages 21 & 22, pp. 231-234
HW Reading 30mins/day HW Ex. 5-8, pp. 56-57 HW Ex. 20, p. 171

3 Pleasure reading: Talk about book conferences, reading rate
Reading skills: Unit 3, Ex. 9, p. 58
Thinking skills: Discuss Ex. 20
Reading Faster: Passages 23 & 24, pp. 235-238
HW Reading 30mins/day HW Ex. 21 pp. 172

4 Pleasure reading: Reading sprints
Reading skills: Unit 3, Ex. 12; Unit 8 Skimming, Ex. 1 & 6, pp. 137 & 146
Thinking skills: Discuss Ex. 21
Reading Faster: Passages 25 & 26, pp. 239-242
HW Reading 30mins/day HW Ex. 22, pp. 173

5 Reading skills: Unit 8, Ex. 2 & 8, pp. 139 & 147
Thinking skills: Discuss Ex. 22
Reading Faster: Passages 27 & 28, pp. 243-246
HW Reading 30mins/day HW Ex. 23, pp. 174

6 Units 3 & 8 Test (Written & Oral)
HW Reading 30mins/day

7 Focus on Critical Thinking and Giving Opinions
Thinking skills: Discuss Ex. 23
Reading Faster: Passages 29 & 30, pp. 247-250
HW Ex. 24, pp. 174

8 Book conferences during office hours (by appointment)
Focus on Critical Thinking and Giving Opinions
Thinking skills: Discuss Ex. 24
Reading Faster: Passages 31 & 32, pp. 251-254
HW Ex. 25, pp. 175

9 Focus on Critical Thinking and Giving Opinions
Thinking skills: Discuss Ex. 25
Reading Faster: Passages 33 & 34, pp. 255-258


10 Focus on Critical Thinking and Giving Opinions
Reading Faster: Passages 35 & 36, pp. 259-262


11 Focus on Critical Thinking and Giving Opinions
Reading Faster: Passages 37 & 38, pp. 263-266
HW Passages Passages 39 & 40, pp. 267-270


12 Presentations of Critical Thinking Project

＜成績評価方法及び水準＞

Written Tests 20%
Final Project 20%
Homework/Progress Charts 20%
Effort/Attitude 20%
Reading Journals 10%
Book Conferences 10%

＜教科書＞

Reading Power, Third Edition, by Beatrice S. Mikulecky and Linda Jeffries: Longman

＜オフィスアワー＞

By appointment, usually Wednesdays between 11:00-1:00 or 4:20-6:00.

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