Happy the hedgehog changed his name教学设计
一、文本分析 Text analysis：
What:
主题语境人与自我，语篇类型故事。故事的内容：一只名叫“快乐”的小刺猬不喜欢自己的名字，经过妈妈的同意以后改了名字，并迫不及待得把自己的新名字“杰克”告诉给了自己的小伙伴们。然而，小伙伴们并不喜欢他的新名字，纷纷离他而去。在猫头鹰先生的劝说下，小刺猬终于想通了，又愉快地把自己的名字改成了“快乐”，最后和小伙伴们言归于好。
这个故事表层上叙述了小刺猬改名字的前因后果，深层上在讲小刺猬心理变化、成长变化、自我认同感变化的一个过程。
Why:
作者通过小刺猬改名字的故事，想让读者看到一个小孩心理变化、成长变化、自我认同感变化的过程，这是成长的一部分，同时启示读者要认同自我。
How:
首先，这个故事以明、暗两条线展开。明线是小刺猬改名字的前因后果，暗线是小刺猬心理的变化、成长的变化、自我认同感的变化过程。整个事故分成三章叙述，脉络清晰、情节起伏、语言生动。第一章是故事的开端：小刺猬和妈妈商量改名字；第二章是故事的发展：小伙伴们对小刺猬改名字的态度；第三章是故事的结局：小刺猬听从猫头鹰先生的建议，改回了名字。
其次，这个故事的时态是一般过去时，表明了这是小刺猬小时候成长过程中经历过的事情。同时以第三人称展开叙述，让读者以旁边者的身份洞悉小刺猬的心理变化、成长变化、自我认同感变化的过程。
二、教学目标Teaching objectives：
1. Students are able to understand how the story develops by predicting and reading.
2. Students are expected to conclude the changes of the moods of the main character and the course of his growth.
3. Students are expected to dig the lessons after reading the story.
三、教学重点 Teaching emphasis
1. Instruct the students to understand how the story develops.
2. Instruct the students to conclude how the moods of the main character changed and how he grew up.
3. Instruct the students to dig the lessons of the story.
四、教学难点 Teaching difficulties
1. Instruct the students to conclude how the moods of the characters changed and how he grew up.
2. Instruct the students to dig the lessons of the story.
五、教学过程 Teaching procedures
Pre-reading
Step 1: Self- introduction. （设计意图：和学生拉近距离，引出对自己不满意，自我认同感低这个话题）
Step 2: Free-talk （设计意图：活跃气氛，调查学生的自我认同感情况，同时引出Happy这个人物）
1. What’s your name?
2. Are you happy with yourself?
3. What aren’t you happy with?
Step 3: Teach how to read （设计意图：通过阅读方法指导，促进学生学习能力）
1. What do you want to know and What to read?
2. What to read first?
3. How to read?
While-reading
Step 4: Predict the characters and plot by reading the title and subtitles. （设计意图：指导运用预测这种阅读方法，发展学生运用学习策略的能力）
Step 5: Work out the structure of the story （设计意图：理清这篇故事的篇章结构：开端、发展、结果）
Opening: chapter 1 Developing: chapter 2 Ending: chapter 3
Step 6: Detailed reading--Chapter 1 （设计意图：通过wh-questions, 理清第一章的故事情节和人物心理，发展学生的思维品质，提升语言能力）
1. Read the story and answer some wh-questions about the plot
2. Find out the feelings of Happy and his mum
Step 7: Detailed reading--Chapter 2 （设计意图：通过表格，训练学生归纳整合信息的能力，同时探索人物心理、态度的变化，发展学生的思维品质，提升语言能力）
1. Read and find out the reasons why his friends were not happy with his name.
（表1）
2. Explore the feelings of Happy and his attitudes towards his friends before and after changing the name
Step 8: Detailed reading--Chapter 3 （设计意图：通过wh-questions, 理清第三章的故事情节，探索人物心理、态度的变化；同时通过理解句子“当你改变你的名字，你也改变了你是谁”，发展学生的思维品质，提升语言能力）
1. Read the story and answer some wh-questions about the plot
2. (Pair work)Try to understand the sentence “ When you change your name, you also change who you are”.
Post-reading
Step 9: Work out the changes and growth of Happy（设计意图：总结Happy改名前后心理、个性的变化，变化的过程是自我认同的过程，亦是成长的过程，以此来升华主题意义） Changes and of Happy
（表2）
Step 10: Discuss in groups : What lessons do you learn after reading the story?（设计意图：用小组讨论的形式，从不同的角度思考，总结学到的道理，发展思维品质，同时实现这一课的育人目标：love yourself accept yourself improve yourself）
Divide the students into 3 groups, each group talk about:
1. As teenagers, we can...
2. 2As friends, we should...
3. As parents, they should...
Invite group leaders to present their ideas.
The teacher gives some advice to students: love yourself, accept yourself, improve youself
Step 11：Homework （设计意图：通过改写故事的结局，提升语言能力，发展学生的想象力，培养学生迁移创新的能力。）
1. Rewrite the ending. You may change the happen ending into a sad ending or a surprising ending.
2. Share your endings with your friends.
六、板书设计（同表2）
Happy the Hedgehog changed his name
Task 1 Pair work Further thinking
How do you understand “When you change your name, you also change who you are”?
Task 2 Changes and of Happy
Chapter 1
Chapter2
Chapter 3
Name
Feelings
personality个性
Task 3 Group work Discussion
What lessons do you learn after reading the story?
(Group 1, 2 ) As teenagers,
(Group 3, 4 ) As friends,
(Group 5, 6 ) As parents,
Task 4 Homework
Rewrite the ending. You may change the happen ending into a sad ending or a surprising ending.
Chapter 3