What are the guidelines for preparing the briefest lesson "In the Eyes of Children"? Are 8th-grade students required to be able to identify some general aspects of Vietnamese literary history?

What are the guidelines for preparing the briefest lesson "In the Eyes of Children"?

The excerpt "In the Eyes of Children" is a part of the 8th-grade Literature curriculum.

Students can refer to the sample briefest lesson "In the Eyes of Children":

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What are the guidelines for preparing the briefest lesson "In the Eyes of Children"? Are 8th-grade students required to be able to identify some general aspects of Vietnamese literary history? (Image from Internet)

Are 8th-grade students required to be able to identify some general aspects of Vietnamese literary history?

Under Section 4 of the Appendix of the General Education Program for Literature, issued with Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT, the required literary competencies after completing 8th-grade Literature curriculum are as follows:

- Understand the message, thought, feelings, and attitudes of the author in the text; recognize literary scripts, novels, and Nom poetry, regulated and free verse, tragedy, and comedy; the content and form of literary works, literary imagery;

- Recognize and analyze the effect of certain artistic elements and techniques in each literary genre (the combination of the narrator's voice and character's voice, perspective, conflict, poetic rules, structure, vocabulary, lyrical emotional flow; rhetorical devices such as repetition, puns, satire, paradox).

- Recognize some general aspects of the history of Vietnamese literature; understand the impact of literature on one's own life.

Thus, 8th-grade students are required to be able to identify some general aspects of Vietnamese literary history.

Shall 8th-grade students in Vietnam learn two sessions a day according to Circular 32?

According to the provisions of Article 2 of Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT:

The general education program applies to:

1. From the 2020-2021 school year for 1st grade.

2. From the 2021-2022 school year for 2nd and 6th grades.

3. From the 2022-2023 school year for 3rd, 7th, and 10th grades.

4. From the 2023-2024 school year for 4th, 8th, and 11th grades.

5. From the 2024-2025 school year for 5th, 9th, and 12th grades.

Under Section 4 of the General Education Program issued with Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT, amended by Article 1 of Circular 13/2022/TT-BGDDT on the education plan:

EDUCATION PLAN

The general education program is divided into two phases: the basic education stage (from grades 1 to 9) and the career-oriented education stage (from grades 10 to 12).

The system of subjects and educational activities in the general education program includes compulsory subjects and educational activities, elective subjects according to career orientation (referred to as elective subjects), and optional subjects.

The actual study duration in one academic year is approximately 35 weeks. Educational institutions can organize teaching in 1 session/day or 2 sessions/day. Educational institutions organizing teaching in 1 session/day and 2 sessions/day must implement a unified compulsory educational content for all educational institutions nationwide.

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2. Career-oriented education stage

2.1. Educational Content

Compulsory subjects and educational activities: Literature; Mathematics; Foreign Language 1; History; Physical Education; National Defense and Security Education; Experiential activities, career orientation; Local education content.

Elective subjects: Geography, Economic and Legal Education, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Technology, Informatics, Music, Fine Arts.

Students choose 4 subjects from the elective subjects.

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Thus, according to the above regulations, the actual study duration in one academic year is approximately 35 weeks. Educational institutions can fully organize teaching in 1 session/day or 2 sessions/day.