Investigating Strategies For Teaching LuXun’s Reminiscent Prose In Middle School

Lu Xun was an original and fountainhead thinker and literary figure in modern China,one of the founders of modern Chinese thought and literature.His highly creative and imaginative literary creations laid a profound foundation for the development of Chinese literature.Lu Xun wrote many essays,including From the Garden of a Hundred Grasses to the House of Three Flavours,A Chang and the Classic of the Mountains and the Sea,and Mr.Fujino and the collection of essays Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Duck which were selected for inclusion in the Ministry’s edition of the textbook and classified as reminiscent essays according to Wang Rongsheng’s theory of "diversion" in prose.The purpose of selecting and editing Lu Xun’s reminiscent prose is to guide students to experience the author’s life trajectory and enhance their emotional comprehension,but the actual teaching situation is not optimistic.In this paper,we take Lu Xun’s reminiscent prose in junior high school as the object of study,and try to investigate the problems that arise in the current front-line classroom teaching and their causes.After an attribution analysis,it was found that the problems arose because teachers neglected to construct and use the language of Lu Xun’s reminiscent prose,mostly confining themselves to teaching a single text without the awareness of linking it to the whole book,and mostly failing to teach the characteristics of reminiscent prose due to their vague awareness of the genre of reminiscent prose.The teaching objectives are based on the standards,teaching materials,learning conditions and the textual style of reminiscent prose;the teaching contents are chosen according to the characteristics of "true emotions" and "double narrative perspectives" of reminiscent prose;the teaching contents of "grasping emotions,tasting language and grasping double perspectives" are proposed.The teaching strategies include:grasping the textual focus,clarifying the people and events;studying the "leisurely writing" incident to explore the emotional changes;using the illustrations in the textbook to promote reading by writing;using the whole book to drive the reading of a single piece,comparing the reading of the whole book and the single piece to interpret the single piece,and comprehending the growth of Lu Xun in a holistic way.Finally,taking Mr.Fujino in the first book of Grade 8 of the Unified Language Teaching Kit as an example,the teaching design is carried out in terms of unit learning themes,learning objectives,learning contexts,learning tasks and learning activities.