高中英语教学：群文读写学案.doc

Passage 1 My first performance I looked out at the smiling faces packed into the school hall. Flashes from cameras lit up in all directions. The applause filled my ears. A bright smile crept upon my face. I had done it. I had really done it. Just a few months earlier, I would never have pictured myself acting in a play in front of two hundred people. But when the time came, I got up on stage and faced one of my greatest fears-and proved I could do more than I ever gave myself credit for. I found a new person inside me, a much more daring, outgoing person who had been hidden all along, just waiting for the opportunity to appear. If not for my teacher, Mrs. Sather, I might never have found that opportunity. In the first and second grade, I was extremely shy. I had friends, but it just wasnt in my personality to be very outgoing, even when I knew someone well. I was afraid I would do or say something wrong, so usually I just smiled and listened to other peoples conversations. I did well in school and I loved to write. However, I would escape into my writing, where I could be myself and never had to worry about what other people thought of me. In my stories, I was never shy. My teacher, Mrs. Sather, always encouraged me to write more. She told our class to chase after our dreams and dig in with both hands. I think she was one of the first people to see my inner strength. One day, she announced that our class was going to perform a play she had written. Ill begin to cast (分配角色)everyone tomorrow she said. I need someone who is not afraid to be on stage in front of the public to play the lead part of Dorothy. Anybody want to try? A few excited hands shot up---mine, of course, was not one of them---and Mrs. Sather smiled. Well talk more about it tomorrow, she said. Then the bell rang and my classmates slowly left the classroom. When I was loading up my backpack, Mrs. Sather asked me to go to her. Totally at a loss, I staggered towards her, an upsurge of confuse well