作文教学中的困境:找了一篇考场高分作文，跟学生们说即使这样的书写，这样的文章，也就只能得13分。我这样说的其中一个目的是要让那些觉得应用文才得了10分的人觉得他们并不冤，因为他们离13分作文的差距确实还挺远的。
万万没想到，一个特别优秀的学生课后跑来跟我说，他看到这样的作文的想法是：这样的作文居然可以得13分~不都是套话吗？broaden one’s horizons/a visual feast/have a deeper insight into…你用在国画展，非遗展，其他展都可以，没有体现特色啊
学生此话要一分为二来看，首先，在考场上，要能适切地用好你背的那些套话首先其实并不容易，因为改卷下来会发现有些是生搬硬套，有些是格格不入，有些是风马牛不相及，能把套话用好的也不是很多。
另一方面来讲，这个学生讲得也有一定的道理，当我们背了大量的模板作文之后，我们似乎很难读到一些特别亮眼、抢眼的表达法了。思维固话和思维惰性使得我们不愿意去尝试一些更好、更贴切、更个性的表达法了。
当然，这个学生也表达了自己可能眼高手低的想法，也表达了自己能力上还达不到这样的要求，所以要多读一些地道的文章，多读外刊。
他跟我的聊天让我也开始反思应用文教学。我想我首先都多读一些这样的外刊文章，expose myself to genuine expressions and take notes and try to use them
比如在写各种展览的时候，
https://www.wildlifeart.org/
The Mission of the National Museum of Wildlife Art is to impart knowledge and inspire appreciation of humanity’s relationship with wildlife and nature through art and education. https://www.wildlifeart.org/exhibits/infectious-culture-wyoming-wildlife/ In this exhibit, we chose to represent bacteria and viruses that have impacts on our local wildlife. These microbes are both beneficial and detrimental to their hosts, and we hope the artworks on display here inspire you to take a closer look at the mysterious world of microbes. The National Museum of Wildlife Art is dedicated to displaying student art in a professional setting, and we are proud to partner with young artists from Jackson Hole High School on this exhibit. https://ich.unesco.org/en/expo The exhibition presented more than 100 photos featuring oral traditions, traditional music, dance and theatre, social practices, rituals and festivals, as well as traditional knowledge and skills that communities and groups around the world receive from their ancestors and pass on to their descendants. The photos featured the 90 Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity proclaimed by UNESCO between 2001 and 2005 as well as other recent initiatives supported by UNESCO for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. strengthen capacities to safeguard intangible cultural heritage and contribute to sustainable development
https://opcd.ae/new-intangible-heritage-campaign-universe-of-crafts/ The campaign aims to gather a wide selection of artefacts and personal objects which together will provide deep insights into the lives and work of Emirati artisans and their crafts. The history behind the objects themselves is equally important, and the personal and family stories behind each item will be collected from their owners. promote our intangible heritage, safeguard our traditional practices and handicrafts and foster pride among the younger generations by demonstrating the continued relevance of our past to contemporary life focus on raising awareness of the UAE’s unique cultural heritage. So much of our rich legacy of traditional crafts and practices is sitting in homes across the country; cherished objects linked to family or personal histories that, through their stories, may be able to shed new light on our collective past. By engaging and involving the community directly, we hope to gather a set of artefacts that tell a deeper, more personal story of traditional Emirati heritage, resulting in an exhibition different to anything House of Artisans has done before Located in Al Hosn site, alongside Qasr Al Hosn and the Cultural Foundation, the House of Artisans plays a pioneering role in the protection and preservation of traditional heritage and craftsmanship, and actively provides support to local artisans carrying on these traditions. The House of Artisans seeks to increase general awareness of heritage arts and practices and encourages the learning of skills related to these crafts through a year-round schedule of workshops and courses, allowing knowledge and techniques to be safeguarded for future generations. https://yasminemohseni.com/announcement-of-honors-for-kona-people-art-exhibition/
The essence of agriculture and the ‘salt of the earth’ farmers who work the ʻaina have been captured through portrait explorations by island artists and are the focus of a curated exhibition Ttitled ‘Kona People , Now on display at the Donkey Mill Art Center. Valerie Corcoran, President of the Kona Coffee Cultural Art Festival, and Island of Hawai’i artist Gerald Walsh III were invited to judge the exhibits and prizes were awarded – in the words of judges – to “works of art that stood out and spoke of the most powerful for us. “Capturing the life and history of Kona farmers through artistic representation is no easy task,” commented Gerald Walsh. “It takes understanding, time and genuine love to embody the spirit of these people.” Available until December 18, 2021, the portraits reflect a variety of methods and media, from oil paintings to digital media and drawings, to capture farmers, aina and their work.
The exhibition and the book “allow us to disembark in the Mariana Islands, to learn about their history and to become acquainted with their people, their identity, and their cultural diversity,” said Miquel Iceta i Llorens, minister of culture and sport for Spain, in the book’s foreword. “And they provide us with an opportunity to revise the version we have always taken for granted of the history of the archipelago.”
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