| 儿子他们的英文写作课有一个大的 project, 叫Multi-Genre Project，要求学生用各种写作文体(Flashing fiction, Mental movie, Character Profile, Dialogue or IM Conversation, Visual Element with captions, 以及Free-Verse Poems) 来描述自己作为八年级学生的生活。下面是儿子写的 A Day in the Life of an Eighth Grader - A Survival Guide。虽然有些夸张和调侃，但还是可以从中对初中生的一日生活窥见一斑。 6:45 Get up! Get up! Yes, get off your back and go brush your teeth, slowpoke.
No one really cares if you are still tired. 7:00 Breakfast: Peanut butter, toast and an orange. What a surprise!
7:15 Catch the bus before its too late. Time waits for no man ,,, or teen.
7:16-7:25 Catch some sleep on the bus or else school will murder you.Just think of a happy place and ignore the chatter of obnoxious sixth-graders in the background and you pass off just fine
7:41 The bell rings initiating the start of school as you head to orchestra
How about a little bit of out-of-tune music to start your day? ........... 12:10 March to death. Yes, thats right... Ms. Quinns class (Ms. Quinn 教social studies ,
大概因为很boring， 孩子们都拿她的课开玩笑)
Dun, Dun, Dun! No one shall survive!
1:00 Lunch time. Get in line before the sacred cheese-stuffed breadsticks are all taken. Its survival of the fittest as you savagely fight for food! 3:15 School is over. Get on the bus, talk to friends, and go home.
Ah, relief.
4:00 Watch TV till your brain hurts. Then ride your bike to no apparent place for any apparent reason
5:00 Homework time. Lets get that piece of work out of the way early.
6:00 Dinner of ... rice and noodles, lovely. 7:00 Violin lessons on Mondays and Chess lessons on Tuesdays.
Bring a thought along so you dont have to listen to the teachers boring lectures. (Enter my mom: "What? I thought you like these lessons!") 8:00 Try once again and fail to defeat Guitar Hero on Expert Mode
9:00 Read "War and Peace" till you doze off ..... But I still have 200 pages to go till the end of the book!
10:00 Good night. Get plenty of sleep so you can start the "wonderful" cycle again tomorrow.... :) (老师的评语："I really like this survival guide. I love that you incorporated wit and sarcasm". 这位老师是儿子所有老师里面最年轻的一个，她自己就是这所初中毕业的，所以好多儿子的其他老师以前也是她的老师。她也因此和儿子他们没有什么“代沟”，是孩子们能够轻松相处的老师) 下面是同一个project 里面的另外一个部分，是一首叫做“Where I am From" 的诗歌，要求作者在诗里写出自己的一些特别的identity and origin. 从中可以看出儿子的一些正在发展的自我意识，我觉得满有意思的。 Where I am From I am from music
From violins and guitars to iPod and CDs
I am from the picture-perfect frame of the new basement
Once a vacant hall (*) I am from the white tint of December snow (**)
The cold chill of a winter day (too cold for me) I am from superior minds,
from my parents to my brother and to myself
I am from vacations overseas and the sometimes arguments of random reasons (***) From "Get up" and "Get going"
I am from atheism, or at least thats how it used to be
I am from America as a pure Asian (****) From countless family stories, the copious details about a different life in
China
I am from the drawers of photos my family cherishes, never to be forgotten
even when desired to be I am from life now, looking forward to change.
Here I am, waiting anxiously
to move on (*****) * 我家的地下室以前是空着的，老公把它做了一些基本的装饰，现在是儿子的空间。 ** 这里是间接地refer to 芝加哥的冬天 *** What arguments? **** 我最喜欢的一句 ***** 老师最喜欢的一句，评语是”Cool ending! I like your perspective!" |
