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1、Unit-The-Light-of-Depression-Teaching-plan-综合教程一 作者： 日期：Unit 13 The Light of DepressionPre-reading ActivitiesI. Pre-reading questionsWhy do more and more people seem to suffer from psychological problems nowadays even though they are enjoying a much better-off material life?II. Cultural information1
2、. QuotesW. M. Thackeray: Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.2. Depression Some people say that depression feels like a black curtain of despair coming down over their lives. Many people feel like they have no energy and cant conce
3、ntrate. Others feel irritable all the time for no apparent reason. Most people who have gone through one episode of depression will, sooner or later, have another one. The symptoms vary from person to person, but if you feel down for more than two weeks, and these feelings are interfering with your
4、daily life, you may be clinically depressed.The common symptoms including:poor concentration and memory withdrawal from social situations and activitiesan inability to experience pleasure in activities that were formerly enjoyedpreoccupied with thoughts and feelings of worthlessness, helplessness, s
5、elf-hatred, etc.thoughts of death or suicide, etc.Learning to recognize these early triggers or symptoms and working with your doctor will help to keep the depression from worsening. There are many forms of treatment that can help you cope with depression, including medications, psychotherapy or cou
6、nseling.Global ReadingI. Main ideaWhat is the story narrated in the text about?This narrative essay narrates and describes an unusual and unforgettable phase of the writers life, during which she experienced deep depression, voluntarily received clinical treatment, conquered the illness in the end,
7、and benefited a great deal from the experiences associated with her suffering.II. Structural analysis1. How are the events of the essay arranged? The narration mostly follows a chronological order, but a few flashbacks are inserted in Paragraph 3 and 6.2. Work out the structure of the text by comple
8、ting the table. Paragraph(s)Main idea1-3It provides the background of the story, telling us about the writer and her family and her problem.4-10The writer related her experiences with deep depression, including her attitude and reactions to it, focusing on her positive attitude and how she got bette
9、r and finally recovered.11It describes the writers mood and feeling on a moon-lit, starry night, and stresses that her deep depression had been worth it, for suffering had painted color into her life, and that she was thankful.Detailed ReadingText I The Light of DepressionParagraphs 1-3Questions1. T
10、he writer stresses at the very beginning that when her sister was suffering from juvenile diabetes, her father cried bitterly for the first time. When do you think her father cried for the second time? (Paragraph 2) It is not difficult to infer that the writers father cried for the second time when
11、the writer was diagnosed with clinical depression.2. Would you describe the writers personality as a child before she was seized with depression? (Paragraph 3) As a child, the writer had a great passion for life and enjoyed being alive. The simplest of pleasures brought her great joy. She seldom dem
12、onstrated a melancholic personality. Any reason for celebration would find her in great excitement.Paragraphs 4-10Questions:1. Why was the day the writer checked into the hospital considered to be one of the hardest days of her mothers life?(Paragraph 4) Leaving her daughter behind at the hospital,
13、the authors mother was seized with extreme sadness, feeling heart-broken. She wondered why her daughter was experiencing so much pain and couldnt get over it this time.2. What is the main idea of Paragraph 6? Illustrate or exemplify it. (Paragraph 6) Paragraph 6 proves how deep the writers depressio
14、n had been before she was admitted into the hospital. While driving home from work before she was ill, she wished that she werent alive. When she arrived home, she had hoped to sleep and escape life because it hurt to breathe.3. Which part in Paragraph 9 is a sentence fragment? Why is it separated f
15、rom the previous sentence? (Paragraph 9) Lives I would have once felt pity for or wanted to distance myself from is a sentence fragment. It is separated from the foregoing sentence for emphasis.4. What do you know about other patients from whose worn lives the writer was learning? (Paragraphs 9-10) They were the ones who possessed strength and courage and had suffered abuse, neglect, addiction and illnesses. They felt misplaced and forgotten. They shared their suffering with the writer. Also, they
