What are guidelines for preparing the lesson Gió lạnh đầu mùa for grade 8 students in Vietnam? When does the first semester of all levels of education for the academic year 2024-2025 in Vietnam end?

What are guidelines for preparing the lesson Gió lạnh đầu mùa for grade 8 students in Vietnam?

"Gió lạnh đầu mùa" on pages 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 of the Grade 8 Literature of Cánh diều curriculum is part of Grade 8 Literature.

Students can refer to the following guidelines for preparing the lesson Gió lạnh đầu mùa for grade 8 students:

Guidelines for preparing the lesson Gió lạnh đầu mùa for grade 8 students

I. General Understanding

- Author: Thach Lam

- Genre: Short story

- First published: 1937 (in a short story collection of the same name)

Main content:

- Vivid and realistic depiction of the life of poor rural people in Northern Vietnam during winter.

- Warm family relationships, sharing, and sympathy among the poor.

- The mother's kindness and tolerance.

- Pure and emotional soul of children.

Meaning:

- General: Praising the beautiful soul of humans, especially love and sharing.

- Specific:

+ Evoking deep emotions about childhood and family love.

+ Emphasizing the value of sharing and helping each other.

+ Reflecting social injustices where the poor have to endure many hardships.

II. Analyzing the Work

1. Winter scene and poor life

- Harsh winter: The winter scene is clearly described, evoking a sense of cold and hardship.

- Difficult life: The poor people's life is depicted through simple yet touching details: thatched houses, patched clothes, frugal meals.

- Warm human relationships: Despite hardships, human relationships remain full. Mother-child love, sibling love, and neighborly love are always present.

2. Children's pure souls

- Son and Lan: Son and Lan are typical images of the younger generation. They are naïve, pure, and compassionate.

- Action of sharing: Son and Lan's action of giving warm clothes to friends shows the kindness of children.

3. Artistic features of the work

- Language:

+ Rich in imagery and emotions.

+ Using many onomatopoeias, comparisons, and personifications.

+ Simple language, close to life.

+ Descriptive: Detailed, vivid, evocative.

+ Narrative: Urgent, engaging, combined with inner monologue.

III. Deeper Understanding of the Text

- Rereading multiple times: To deeply appreciate the content and artistry of the work.

- Understanding the life of Vietnamese people before the August Revolution: To better understand the social context that the work reflects.

- Comparing with other works of Thach Lam: To see the consistency and diversity in the author's style.

IV. Suggested Discussion Questions

What are your feelings about the character Son?

Why does Son's action touch you?

Find the most beautiful descriptions of winter in the story.

Do you agree with Son's mother's behavior? Why?

What lesson do you draw from this story?

V. Extended Activities

Writing: Describe a passage in the story that you like the most.

Storytelling: Retell the story from a character's perspective.

Drawing: Draw an illustration for the story.

Dramatization: Perform a scene from the story.

Note: When analyzing the work, it is important to connect with real-life experiences to help students better understand the story's meaning.

*Note: The information is only for reference purposes./.

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What is the general direction in the teaching method of Grade 8 Literature in Vietnam?

Based on the General Education Curriculum for Literature, issued together with Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT, the general direction of the teaching method is as follows:

The Literature curriculum adopts general teaching orientations focused on integrated and differentiated learning; diversifying the forms of organization, methods, and teaching aids; fostering positive, active, and creative learning and application of students' knowledge and skills.

Based on the curriculum, teachers proactively and flexibly build and organize lessons according to the following orientation:

- Implement intra-subject integration (both knowledge and skills), interdisciplinary integration, and integration of priority educational content (cross-subject); conduct differentiated teaching according to student groups at all educational levels and contribute towards vocational orientation in high school.

- Train students in methods of reading, writing, speaking, and listening; practice and experience the reception and application of Vietnamese language and literature knowledge through various in-class and out-of-class activities; pay attention to the use of teaching aids, overcoming the lecture-based teaching method, developing thinking, and practicing the use of educational tools for students.

- Enhance and promote students' positivity and self-reliance; allocate significant time for students to study textbooks and learning materials, practice, present, discuss, and defend their results to help them learn to read, write, speak, and listen according to different requirements and levels; assess students' performance on their learning tasks.

When does the first semester of all levels of education for the academic year 2024-2025 in Vietnam end?

Firstly, for the upcoming 2024-2025 school year, according to Decision 2045/QD-BGDDT issued by the Ministry of Education and Training on August 1, 2024, which regulates the Framework of the academic year 2024 - 2025, the school start date and the start date for the academic year 2024 - 2025 is as follows:

- The earliest school start date is not more than 01 week before the start date of the academic year. For Grade 1, the earliest school start date is not more than 02 weeks before the start date of the academic year.

- The academic year's start date for all educational levels will be September 5, 2024.

- The first semester will end before January 18, 2025, and the curriculum and the academic year will end before May 31, 2025.

- The evaluation for completing elementary school and the evaluation for graduating from secondary school will be done before June 30, 2025.

- The first-level enrollment will be finished before July 31, 2025.

- The high school graduation exam for 2025 is tentatively scheduled for June 26 and June 27, 2025.

- National-level exams will be organized according to the Ministry of Education and Training's regulations and guidance.

*Note: To know the exact start date of the 2024-2025 school year, parents should follow the school's or locality's announcements.

Thus, according to the regulation above, the first semester will end before January 18, 2025.