Period 2 Reading and Thinking
教材分析：
The topic of this unit is about teenage life, which belongs to the theme context of “humans and oneself”.
As teenagers who shoulder the responsibility of “Chinese great dream”, they must fully know themselves, including their strengths, weaknesses and challenges etc. They are supposed to improve themselves continuously and readily study their subjects, and thus foster their strategies and confidence in lifelong studies.
This period is entitled the freshmen challenges, which mainly concerns some big challenges for new students in Senior high school. In this period, a teacher should lead students to find out what their challenges are and guide them to figure out how to crack the challenges and better themselves. More importantly, a teacher should instruct students to absorb new language points and appreciate the language. Besides, a teacher must instruct students to acquire some skills concerning reading efficiently and inspire them to talk more about their new school life, especially their new problems and solutions both at school and in life.
教学目标与核心素养：
1. Enable students to acquire the basic usage of the new words and expressions concerning the freshmen challenges and learn to use them flexibly.
2. Enable students to have a good understanding of the freshmen challenges in the new senior high school which is quite different from junior middle school.
3. Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning and individual thinking capability.
4. Develop students’ different learning skills to solve different reading comprehensive problems.
