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Grade 7-8 School-based Chinese teaching textbook

October 11, 2016

Grade 7-8 School-based Chinese teaching textbook

After nearly two years of practice and constant summary, our colleagues from Grade 7-8 have reached a consensus that Chinese-teaching as a mother tongue for students is not just a language tool to learn, but more importantly, it serves toward cultivation of humanistic feelings. We aim to broaden students’ horizons by providing them with a wide range of literary works covering different themes and genres and various media. Teachers will keep on optimizing teaching methods, and creating situations to actively cultivate students' understanding of literary history, and their abilities in self-reflection, expression, and creativity. We hope that they can enjoy and follow their own aesthetic tastes, while possessing also cultivation their basic literary appreciation, and humanistic sensibilities. In addition, we want them to have a good understanding of life and be able to think independently and explore life on their own terms. They will be students who can reflect on themselves and also on society and its problems.

For this reason, we rewrote our 7th and 8th Grade International Division Chinese textbooks. Then re-select the themes which are close to student life, following the main theme of humanistic feelings, in order to replace our original method of dividing articles into different units on the basis of genres. Accordingly, the two years teaching materials have been arranged gradually. Each theme includes various genres of Chinese and foreign works to cultivate students’ broad interests. Moreover, the new scheme should stimulate students to explore the various common human emotions. The coming-of-age theme is related to the growth of students' minds. The other themes fall in line with the tradition of abandoning oneself into nature, allowing students to reflect on human values and have a rudimentary knowledge of the history of ancient Chinese poetry. We hope to achieve our cultivating objectives after two years of solid effort.

We would like to thank the main textbook editors: Qiong Liu, Suqiong Liu, Jing Jin, Fan Chen, Chen Xu. We also want to thank our school for the great support, and thank all our other colleagues for their help in the preparation process!

(Written by Qiong Liu Supervised by Dong LIu Picture by Dong Liu)