The scenery in the "Landscape Line"
——A review of the essay questions of Nantong City's 2008 High School Entrance Examination
The essay questions of Nantong City's 2008 High School Entrance Examination:
< p>A tender red tail, a blue stream, a cloud, a chirping of birds, a clump of reeds in the wind... it is a pleasing scenery;A hymn to life, a moving silhouette, A show of style, a public service advertisement... is an evocative landscape;
A philosopher said: Your soul is a selected landscape.
Perhaps, there are more landscapes in your eyes and heart...
Please write an article with the title "A Landscape". Requirements: ① There must be true feelings and no plagiarism. ② There is no limit to the style of writing except poetry; ③ No less than 600 words; ④ The real place, school name and person’s name must not appear in the text; ⑤ The writing must be correct, standardized and beautiful.
Compositions with "landscape" as the theme word are not unfamiliar in high school examination papers across the country. For example, in 2004, Zibo, Shandong used "I am a scenery" or "You are a scenery" as the topic. One of the topic essays in Ningbo in 2008 is "The Landscape Remaining in My Heart", which has the same basic direction. No wonder once the title came out, some people thought it was too "old" and too "vulgar". After careful consideration and a comprehensive review of the whole question, it should be said that the 2008 Nantong City High School Entrance Examination essay has the following distinct "bright" points.
1. The metaphorical theme complements the poetic prompts. "A Landscape" is titled with metaphorical rhetoric. The title is flexible and gives people a lot of room for imagination. The prompts are set up and the words are like a poem, which makes it fresh and beautiful to read. The title is a condensation of the prompts, and the prompts are a poetic interpretation of the title. The metaphor of "landscape" is transformed into concrete images, spread out in front of people, and helps candidates find the direction of topic selection and material selection. The prompts subtly remove obstacles for students to review questions, and meet the basic requirements of the "Chinese Curriculum Standards" for "no barriers to review" for writing tests.
2. The topic is broad and opens up horizons for the diversity of material selection. Using metaphors to set the topic, the title gives people a lot of room for imagination and broadens students' horizons in selecting materials. The first three sentences of the reminder clearly tell students that the angle of material selection can come from nature, society, or spirit (soul). The three angles and three levels are unfolded sequentially, triggering students' life accumulation and reading accumulation. Accumulate insights and choose the "landscape" in your own eyes and heart.
3. Pay attention to reality and inspire thinking for the diversity of intentions. Some people think that it is difficult for candidates to come up with something new about this question because the question seems familiar. However, the author believes that from the prompts, it is not difficult to find that the questioner has a clear direction, asking students to pay more attention to real life, whether it is "a tender red tail, a blue stream, a cloud, a burst of birdsong, A clump of reeds in the wind..." or "a hymn to life, a silhouette of an activity, a style display, a public service announcement..." are all things that lead students to pay attention, observe and think about reality. In fact, students are not only required to see these "landscapes", but also to think, comprehend, and recollect, and to refine and clarify their writing intentions through thinking, perception, and recollection. It should be said that depending on the students' different focuses, their writing intentions naturally show diverse colors.
Fourth, emphasize individuality and let spiritual enlightenment reflect the brilliance of reason. If the topic is popular, so-called "old" and "vulgar", the focus of the examination is naturally to emphasize individuality. "A thousand readers have a thousand Hamlets." Similarly, the same "eye view" may not necessarily produce The same "mindscape". This is actually a difficult point that this essay question requires students to break through. When writing, you should integrate what you see in your eyes with your own spiritual insights, reflect the brilliance of reason, and inspire others. Some people say that this is too demanding for junior high school students. But the author believes that this is a kind of orientation. While prompting students to observe and pay attention to life, it is necessary to improve students' value judgment and aesthetic abilities. The author believes that the popularization of essay topics does not mean that students must come up with new ideas, but that it leads students to write about their real lives and their true feelings
Looking at this proposition again, there are still some issues worthy of discussion. Places are mainly reflected in the following aspects:
1. The generalization of "landscape" makes the subject easily far-fetched. Although the prompt makes a concrete supplement to the essence of the title, it still inevitably makes people feel that the title is a bit broad. Can all natural landscapes, social phenomena, and spiritual insights be named "landscapes"? In this way, will there be a phenomenon of forcing it to death? Paraphrasing questions makes the subject far-fetched, inevitably makes the subject simplistic and superficial, or deliberately pursues a profound meaning.
2. The topic selection is vulgar, and the material selection is easy to be grafted on. "Landscape" and "landscape" are two words with different denotations and connotations. Therefore, although they may seem familiar, if they are not carefully considered and scrutinized, deviations in understanding may easily occur. By generalizing the understanding of "landscape", adding that the topic is familiar, and selecting materials and formulating the topic, it seems to be in the usual track of thinking, which inevitably opens the door to the composition.
3. The title is poetic, and the writing is easy to be ethereal and flashy.
The title of the essay is very beautiful. It is a continuation of Nantong's composition propositions in recent years. For example, the topic of "Fragrance of Life" in 2006 and the proposition of "Starting with a Smile" in 2007 all give people a poetic beauty. In fact, as soon as you see the title "A Landscape", you will be struck by reverie. This is exactly the aesthetic value pursued by the author. Coupled with the poetic language of the prompts, it is easy to lead students to pursue a tendency of prose culture and make fuss about flashy language, resulting in the disastrous consequences of the article being empty and the theme elusive.
Nantong City’s 2008 high school entrance examination composition propositions reflect the current trends and characteristics of composition composition propositions in a sense, and naturally have certain implications for current composition teaching.
1. Composition standards require solid training. Under the "dilution" requirements of the new curriculum reform of writing knowledge such as reviewing questions, conception, and article planning, writing knowledge has been ignored in teaching practice, and composition teaching has become more random and disorderly. Understanding the title of the article is the first step in planning the article. It is not uncommon for essays to fail due to poor review of topics. Problems such as unclear themes and unclear ideas are closely related to the lack of effective normative training in composition. Necessary composition standards must be implemented step by step and practiced solidly. The author believes that without sufficient training in "getting into the style", it is difficult to achieve the "out of style" in composition, and it is even more difficult to achieve the improvement of "style" and move toward freedom and individuality in composition.
2. Lead students to pay attention to life, think about life, and improve their aesthetic quality. Life is the source of writing. Only by narrating your own life, showing the details of your life, and integrating your true feelings into it can you write articles that move yourself and others. The kind of article that makes up stories, breaks away from one's own life, and even relies on grafting and grafting is bound to be artificial. It’s not that there is a lack of “landscape” in life, but that there is a lack of eyes to discover the “landscape”. There are many ways to give students a pair of wise eyes, such as letting students develop the habit of writing diaries, etc., and at the same time recommending some classic books to students to expand their horizons, enhance their souls, and improve their aesthetic quality.
3. Increase the amount of reading and continuously enrich students’ accumulation. The author once wrote an article criticizing the phenomenon of flashiness in students' compositions (see "Warning: Compositions are becoming flashy", "Middle School Chinese Teaching", Issue 6, 2006), and believed that the gorgeous words in students' compositions were a composition fault. After reflection, I still feel that this is The point of view is biased. The problem is not the gorgeous words used in students' compositions, but the blind pursuit of gorgeous words and the neglect of the content of the composition, making the theme erratic and elusive. In fact, at the junior high school stage, students should be encouraged to accumulate good words, sentences and paragraphs, and use them boldly, or quote them directly, or imitate them in writing. Naturally, it is difficult to say that the improvement of Chinese literacy is due to the lack accumulated in the junior high school stage. Insufficient time for reading and insufficient guidance are still prominent problems.
It is difficult to make a judgment on the quality of a question. In fact, there is no need to judge the quality of a question when it appears. The high school entrance examination questions are also a test and a writing process. The finished presentation of the essay reflects the crystallization of the wisdom of the proposition group. We interpret it just like interpreting an article. It can be multiple or independent. We strive to be close to the ideal of the proposition writer and strive to be more in line with the rules of composition teaching.
2008 Jiangsu Province Nantong City High School Entrance Examination Full Score Essay:
Set off with a smile
Be a voice so strong that you refuse to surrender;
Be a barrier, so thick that you can’t cross it;
It doesn’t matter, don’t be afraid, let’s set off with a smile.
——Inscription
Tao Yuanming retreated into the mountains with a smile
Your smiling face appears everywhere in the busy pastoral life. This smile affects your leisurely communication. As the sun sets, I pick a wild chrysanthemum on the hillside, like a lively and lovely soul boy, content with the inaccessibility of Nanshan Mountain.
You set off with a smile and came to this pine mountain and wild forest where there are no excessive taxes and no cold eyes. You made me understand that when facing misfortune, I should face it with a smile and optimism like you.
Li Bai sails to help you with a smile. With a smile, he walks all the way alone. No matter whether the road is windy or rainy, no matter how bumpy the fate of the road is, wave his hand and there will always be strong winds and waves. At this time, there is always a day to sail to the sea.
Li Bai, you set out with a smile and shouted, "There will be times when the wind and waves break, and you will hang your sails directly across the sea." This makes me understand that when facing difficulties, we should face them with a smile like you and face them with good hope for the future.
Liu Yuxi moved into the thatched cottage with a smile
Twenty-three years of passing time cannot stop your flying soul. On this night in Bashan, when the rain rises in the autumn pond, you imagine cutting the candle shadow on the west window with your wife. Although you live in boundless longing, you still moved into that simple thatched house with a smile and felt in your heart, "This is a humble house, but I am virtuous and kind."
With the mountain god, does the mountain still care about its height? With the Dragon God, does the water still care about the depth? I have noble moral character, and my humble house is my refuge. Liu Yuxi, you lived in the thatched cottage with a smile, which made me understand that as a human being, we should face the poverty in life with a smile of "not to be happy with things, not to be sad with oneself".
For hundreds of years, the tides have risen and fallen, the rain has come and gone, and the water of the Yellow River cannot be washed away. It is so turbulent and vast; The meaning of endless smiles.
Start with a smile and let it open a brave door for you.