Summary of the lesson "Tôi đi học" in the educational curriculum in Vietnam

Summary of the lesson "Tôi đi học" in the educational curriculum in Vietnam in 2024

The summary of "Tôi đi học" involves students writing their thoughts about Thanh Tinh's story "Tôi đi học" which they study in grade 8.

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What are regulations on constructing the grade 8 Literature program in Vietnam?

Based on Section IV of the Annex to the Literature education program issued with Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT, the grade 8 Literature program is structured as follows:

[1] Language Proficiency

- General Requirements:

+ Know how to apply Vietnamese language knowledge along with personal experiences and reasoning skills to understand texts; read texts according to type and genre; comprehend both explicit and implicit content of texts.

+ Identify and initially analyze, evaluate the content and prominent expressive features of texts;

+ Compare texts with each other, relate to personal life experiences; thus form personal perspectives, thoughts, and feelings about life, enriching spiritual life.

- Requirements for grades 8 and 9: Write complete descriptive, argumentative, and expository essays following proper steps and combine expressive techniques.

- Narrative texts should focus on creatively retelling read stories; witnessed and participated events; imaginative stories that include descriptive and expressive elements;

- Descriptive texts should focus on depicting activities (descriptive of activities); expressive texts about landscapes and people, and expressions of literary works;

- Know how to create poems, mainly to recognize characteristics of familiar poetic forms;

- Write argumentative texts expressing personal thoughts and opinions on relevant issues, with fairly simple arguments and easily found evidence;

- Write expository texts about familiar issues in students' lives and knowledge with common structures;

- Fill in forms, compose practical documents such as job memoranda, emails, reports, advertisements, and interviews.

- Write correctly according to procedures, know how to find materials to meet writing requirements; have knowledge about intellectual property rights and know how to cite texts.

- Present ideas and emotions clearly; be confident when speaking in front of many people; use appropriate language and gestures when speaking.

- Clearly narrate read or heard stories; know how to share feelings, attitudes, experiences, and ideas about discussed issues; discuss opinions on read or heard issues; explain an object or process.

- Know how to speak appropriately to the purpose, audience, and communication context; use images, symbols, charts, etc., to present issues effectively.

- Listen with an appropriate attitude and summarize content; recognize and initially evaluate the arguments and evidence used by the speaker.

- Recognize the speaker's emotions; know how to effectively respond to what is heard.

[2] Literary Proficiency

- Recognize and distinguish types of literary texts: stories, poems, plays, diaries, and representative genres; analyze the effects of certain artistic features of each literary genre; understand the explicit and implicit content of literary texts.

- Express feelings and thoughts about literary works and their impact on oneself; initially create some literary products.

- For grades 8 and 9:

+ Understand the message, thoughts, emotions, and attitudes of the author in the text; recognize literary scripts, novels, narrative poems, regulated and free verse, tragedies, and comedies.

+ Understand the content and form of literary works, literary images; recognize and analyze the effects of some artistic elements and techniques of each literary genre (the combination of narrator’s voice and character’s voice, point of view, conflict, poetic rules, structure, language, lyrical emotional flow).

+ Recognize rhetorical devices such as repetition, wordplay, irony, and paradox. Recognize some general aspects of Vietnamese literary history; understand the impact of literature on personal life.

Summary of the lesson "Tôi đi học" in the educational curriculum in Vietnam in 2024 (Image from Internet)

What are the overall objectives for teaching grade 8 Literature?

Based on Section III of the Annex to the general education program for Literature issued with Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT, the grade 8 Literature program is structured as follows:

- Develop and nurture essential qualities in students: patriotism, kindness, diligence, honesty, and responsibility; cultivate the soul, form character, and develop individuality.

Literature helps students discover themselves and the world around them, understand people, have a rich spiritual life, have humane beliefs and behaviors; love the Vietnamese language and literature; have a sense of origin and national identity, contributing to preserving and developing Vietnamese cultural values; be open to global cultural achievements and have the ability to integrate internationally.

- Contribute to students' development of general competencies: self-learning, communication and cooperation, problem-solving, and creativity.

Specifically, Literature helps develop language and literary competencies: honing reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills; having a foundational knowledge system about Vietnamese language and literature, developing both figurative and logical thinking, contributing to fundamental cultural education; know how to create common documents; know how to receive, evaluate literary texts, communicative products, and aesthetic values in life.