第一篇：美國學生怎么寫讀書報告？

美國學生怎么寫讀書報告？

如何寫讀書報告？這是美國學生的基本功，但是卻是中國的孩子的弱點，江博讀書會特邀請Timothy（出生于美國，且在美國某著名中學就讀）按照他得學習體會跟大家分享一下讀書報告的寫法。

How to Write a Book Response by Timothy(intern @Joyboom)

I’ll be going over a few points which I feel are instrumental in writing a good book response.The order is not significant.1.Make sure to understand the basic concepts and facts of the book.It’s very tough to write a book response without knowing both the specifics of the plot and the symbolism in the book.For example, I once began to write a response about A Separate Peace, in which I argued that Leper may have had a mental disorder.As it turns out, the book implies he suffered from PTSD.2.Establish a main idea, and focus the entirety of the response around it.Every piece of writing should have a main idea.It is always easier to write an essay around a main idea than to think of one after the essay has been completed.As such, it is highly encouraged to have a first paragraph dedicated to informing the reader of the main idea.There should also be a recap of the main idea in the concluding paragraph, briefly explaining how all of your ideas link back to the main one.A very brief example could be: Main idea: California is a great state to live in.Idea 1: California has many job opportunities.Idea 2: California has great weather.Idea 3: California has all kinds of food.Link back: California is a great state to live in because of 1, 2 and 3.3.Keep the essay smooth!It’s important to keep your sentences flowing smoothly.Here’s a tip: after every sentence you write, read it aloud to yourself.Do this when you finish paragraphs and entire essays.This will ensure you catch any parts that sound rigid.A prime factor in rigid sentences is repeated words.For example: “Put the book on that table, in case we need the book later.”

In this sentence, the word book is repeated.It sounds a bit awkward when read aloud, but this can be easily remedied.“Put the book on that table, in case we need it later.”

By changing the word, the sentence flows better.In some situations, a thesaurus can be even better.4.Keep plot summary to a minimum.A rule of thumb when writing responses is to assume that the reader has already read the book.Of course, this isn’t going to be the case 100% of the time.Responses, however, are not summaries.Ideally, the only plot that should ever be in your response should be the quotes you use(if you use them)to support your ideas.5.Quotes are powerful.At least, when used in the right way.Quotes are unquestionable fact taken straight from the book you are responding to.When used correctly, they strengthen your ideas by quite a bit by adding factual evidence.Here’s how you can use quotes effectively: In Lord of the Flies, Piggy is the most intelligent character, because he makes the conch a symbol of democracy.The sentence above is fine on its own, but a quote would strengthen it.In Lord of the Flies, Piggy is the most intelligent character, as shown when he “quote where Piggy first establishes the rules regarding the conch.”

6.Finish strong.Your last paragraph is what the reader is left with when they finish, so it should be impactful.Recap your ideas, restate your main idea, and always end with a thought-provoking sentence.This could be a question, a statement about a broad subject, or anything else, as long as it makes the reader think.本文轉自：北京英語培訓

第二篇：美國文學讀書報告

091112班 黃茜茜 美國文學選讀

Book Report

——My View of Walden

Since I have finished reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being last year, I suppose it is the best.But when I get Walden, my heart is caught again.To be honest, when I first hear about Walden, I have no idea what it is concerned about.After my teacher introduces a bit about it, then I know it is a quiet book.Because of that favor, I have much interest in it and read it immediately.I have to say, I think it talks nonsense in the Economy chapter, and I become confused when I finish it at the first time.I just learn some thing about Thoreau’s more than two years of life and thought at Walden Pond, it is like a journal.For further studying, I read more literature from library and search for more evaluating from the Internet.It is generally believed in literary circles that Walden is such a book, a book is called “overcome all worldly thoughts and enter sainthood“ by Eliot, a book together with Bible and the little prince was named one of the ”twenty-five books for shaping the readers " by America National Library, a book that poets will never abandon.It is very important to know background of a book when you read it.Otherwise，you may not know why the author write it or what the author want to tell readers.In Walden, they are mentioned in chapter two.Just like me, I am not able to understand Walden well at the beginning and think it is nonsense.It is not the simple description of nature and life of Thoreau, it also reveals that the author comes back to the nature and makes an experiment of life to find the true meaning of life.It seems that if one can meet the required for basic life to the world, one can more easily and more calm to enjoy life.There are many researches on Walden, the themes contain ecological significance, aesthetic value, relationship between Walden and China, and so on.But, my heart just follow the words.I read it twice.When I think of seclusion, I think of Tao Yuanming.When I think of prose, I think of Zhu Ziqing and his Moonlight over the Lotus Pond.It is said that the writing style of Wei An ultimately from poetry to prose because of Walden.I am indulged in Thoreau’s thought and the words of Walden.The book is fresh,healthy and inspiring.I love it.I like the second chapter of it most.In this chapter, the author explains why he choses to live alone in a small, simple cabin at Walden Pond, and why he writes this book.He thinks many of his contemporaries do not understand the real meaning of life.He describes the beauty of nature, some ideas of transcendentalism and his philosophy of life--”simplicity, simplicity, simplicity”.I love these sentences

especially, “Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.I drink at it;but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.” There is a metaphor, stream is used to be compared to time.Although we can not like Thoreau to appreciate the lonely forest life now, Walden has never disappeared.Nothing can prevent us to have a clear Walden in our hearts.It

always can let the hearts be elutriated, according to Thoreau, to your inner exploration.The book is eternal.I love Walden, such a quiet book.

第三篇：美國文學讀書報告

I've read several books this semester, all of them are interesting and amusing.One of them is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, it made me laugh while I was reading and left me a very deep impression.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is authored by Mark Twain who is one of the greatest writers in American and is lauded as the “greatest American humorist of his age”.William Faulkner call him “the father of American literature”.Mark Twain wrote many long novel and short stories.His writings are famous for being humorous，resourceful and witty which possess a strong local American flavor and are liked and much appreciated by many people of not only America but also the world over.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a classical work of Mark Twain, it tells the story of a teenage Huckleberry Finn, who is a misfit and escapes from the civilization society.During his flee, he comes across Jim, an escaping slave, and the two decide to go away together.In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and a cost of characters who are sometimes menacing and often hilarious.And in the winding and adventurous, Huck and Jim build up a permanent

friendship that breaks down the barrier between the White and the Black.This book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River.The usage of first person makes the readers feel truly about the story and makes the distance between the writer and the

reader shortened.The famous novelist Hemingway summed up the great

importance of this novel “All American literature comes from one book

by Mark Twain called The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn[...]the best

book we've had.All American writing comes from that.There was

nothing before.There has been nothing as good since”.The Adventures of

Huckleberry Finn is very popular both among children and adults.And it

is not only widely admired in America but also enjoys a huge success all

over the world.The protagonist of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a boy

named Huckleberry Finn.Huck is a teenage with many good qualities.He is a very naughty boy and he dose not like things which is customary

and fixed.He wears old rags and sleeps in sugar-hogshead.Huck does not

like school, when he has to go to school, he feel dull and boring.He likes

to go out with Tom at midnight.When Huck lives with the widow, he

often goes out thought the window.And he also fools Jim with Tom.Huck is very brave and intelligent.When he faces dangers, he does not

escape but confronts them and tries his best to settle them.Huck also

likes to be free.For Huck, society imposes restriction, and civilization is

artificial and colorless.In contrast, the life on the river represents freedom

and the opportunity to observe natural beauty.So when Huck was locked

by his father, he ran away, not only from his father but also from the

widow.Huck is an outcast without education.He comes from the very

lowest level of society.His father is the poor town drunkard who would

willingly commit any crime just for the pure pleasure of it.Huck is a motherless and homeless outcast, sleeping in barrels, eating scraps and leavings and dressed in rags.He dislikes civilized ways because they are personally restrictive and hard.He lives with Widow Douglas who wants to civilize him, but he likes to be free.Thought the widow treats him friendly, he finds it is difficult for him to endure the life style of the widow.When he can not endure any more, he runs away.Huck is a kind boy, thought he sometimes plays jokes on others, he does not mean harm.When he told Jim a lie and fooled him by saying they did not get apart but just Jim dreamed it.He felt sorry and ashamed when he noticed Jim's care and worry.Huck is only a boy, after all, and therefore fallible.Imperfect as he is, Huck represents what anyone is capable of becoming: a thinking, feeling human being rather than a mere cog in the machine of society.Apparently, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn describes a winding and adventurous journey.But in fact, the volume of novel does not only belong to teenagers' story.Huck asserts the values of individualized experience against the threatening incubus of civilization.It is this which makes it so much more than a “kind of companion to Tom Sawyer”, which makes it, in fact, one of the great modern novels.This novel contributes to reflecting the desire of the public to abrogate the bondage of slavery and seek independence and liberty.

第四篇：美國學生實習報告

我不得不承認我的實習更接近于一次獨立學習，而不是一份真正的工作----雖然早已知道那是在大學里。當我到達時，我可以選擇愿意學習的科目。我選擇了人工智能，在這之前對此沒有一點真正的概念。我和高教授工作，他是學校最有威望的教授之一。高教授正在研制一種能夠學會聞并且分辨不同化學物質的電子鼻。他有幾個研究生學生，每個人發展不同的運算法則，他們編寫程序，從電子鼻中提取輸入數據并教會網絡運用嗅覺分辨。他們給我一個標準運算法則，讓我改進它-----為了了解這個主題的基本知識，這個任務就意味著大量的閱讀和對材料的研究。最初三個星期的時間大部分都花在閱讀教材，研究初始運算法則以及閱讀科技文章上。接下來三個星期的時間，大部分用于對初始程序和運行測試進行各種啟發式修正。我沒有在這個領域做出重大突破，但我確實學到一些東西，并且做出一個相當不錯的終極產品。

我住的是華東理工大學留學生公寓的單人房間。令人滿意的是，公寓里有餐廳，也有洗衣機，而且還有單獨的浴室。總體說來，我對住宿條件比較滿意，不過我在房間里待的時間不多。

我在中國的經歷與我所設想的大不一樣，有幾個原因。對于工作經驗我多少有點失望，因為我更象一個學生研究者而非雇員。這不能完全算一次國際培訓，更多的是在中國進行我在美國所干的同樣的事。然而，工作本身既不耗時間也不很嚴格。我有很多自由支配的時間，并且我對到上海市區里去也很積極。學校位于商業區外，周圍環境較差，我就盡可能到城里去。結果，我每周在一所學校教兩個小時的英語，并且結交了很多中國朋友，他們邀請我看電影和戲劇，還教我烹飪。對于這類事情我記得比工作多。

不過，我的最有意義的文化交流不是和中國人。由于住在留學生公寓，我的大部分好朋友都來自非洲，東南亞以及中東。與這些人交流很有意思，他們也是我將保持聯絡的人。在上海外出，尤其是在晚上，你會在非常舒適的環境中遇到來自世界各地，思想開放的人。

來到中國是我一生中最激烈最有回報的體驗之一。我一個人來，不知道我將待在哪里，不知道我將做什么。如果事情不順利，也絕對沒有安全體系可以依靠。我是整個大學以及學校周圍地區里唯一的西方學生。我對中國人的生活有了很到位的了解，也交了很多世界各地的朋友。我到上海時只有一個電話聯絡號碼，而回去時筆記本上已記滿了聯系方式和我的觀察所得。我迫不及待地等待著下一次出國的機會。謝謝。

第五篇：《素質教育在美國》讀書報告

素質教育在美國

還有2個月就到了又一年的高考，“一分都不能差”的中國高考制度，對我們來說是在熟悉不過了。但是下面我們來看看一個留美博士，他是如何用他那犀利的眼光洞察中美教育差異的。黃全愈是一位在中國的教育中成長，在美國的教育中成才的留美博士，他對中國和美國的教育都有深刻的體會和思考。這次我要講的就是黃全愈博士的《素質教育在美國》，又名《留美博士眼中的中美教育》，這本書不長，所以我花了一天就看完了，但是作者講訴的那些問題卻個個發人深省。當我第二遍細細品味時，才明白，有些問題我們一直以來都理解的不是很到位。這本書主要講了中國素質教育和美國素質教育的不同點和根本區別。作者“采取了一個較自由的既敘事又論理的寫作方式”，用作者的話來說，“只希望讀者能在輕松愉快的閱讀中思考一些問題，更希望得到讀者的認可”。確實，文章中作者利用發生在兒子礦礦身上及其發生在周圍的一些膾炙人口的例子，對中美教育進行比較，在對中國素質教育提出一些疑問的同時，給我們留下了很大的反思空間。

全書共分十個部分來敘述：

一、創造性能不能教？

二、能不能用左手寫字？

三、要不要投自己一票？

四、老師能不能有錯別字？

五、要不要教育孩子什么是對，什么是錯？

六、到大學階段方做學問嗎？

七、教育要不要平等？

八、要不要懲罰孩子？

九、幾個值得思考的教育觀念問題。

十、幾個值得思考的教育體制問題。

作者在其文字中并沒有對以上每個問題做出明確的解答，但卻在平實的字里行間，表達了他的觀點。特別是在本書的第一章《創造性能不能教》中，作者講述了一件非常有趣的事。受中國畫啟蒙教育的兒子三歲就能畫出像模像樣的國畫，來到美國后，作者把有著繪畫天賦的兒子送進了邁阿密大學美術學院辦的繪畫學習班，可是在這個班里，兒子卻無法落筆畫畫，因為，老師什么也不教，只讓學生涂鴉似的亂畫，甚為不滿的作者立即讓兒子退出了這個“誤人子弟”的繪畫班。可后來，作者發現，美國孩子在繪畫的時候有著充分的想象力和創造力，他們從不問“像不像”，而是問“好不好”，也就是畫得獨特不獨特。而中國孩子評判一幅畫好壞的標準卻是“像不像”。像不像老師的畫，像不像現實中的實物。如果沒有一個參照物，他們就根本無法下筆。看到這兒，我不禁想到：我們的素質教育和美國的素質教育究竟有何區別呢？帶著問題我一口氣看完了這本書，看完這本書后，我陷入了深深的思考和反省之中。本書的十個部分涉及到的問題，都是目前我國教育中碰到的困惑。很多問題在國內引發了很多爭論。比如，本書封面提出的問題，“中國的中學生屢獲國際奧林匹克競賽獎，而當今中國尚未培養出獲諾貝爾獎的人才，這是不是發人深省的中華民族的一個困惑？”這確實是一個困惑，所以才引發了這么多爭論。“我國最好的大學，北大、清華在世界大學的排行榜中一直在300名以外，近幾年，北大進入300名了，但也僅僅是靠在300名，而清華則是接近300名了；”就中國目前的經濟發展水平，“建設世界一流大學的路漫漫其修遠！”。中國的科技發展也還任重道遠，所以中國離諾貝爾獎的距離遠矣。這似乎也是中國沒有培養諾貝

爾獎的一個原由。但想想，世界上不是也有很多比中國窮、比中國科技發展落后的國家獲得過諾貝爾獎嗎？這種理解似乎不那么經得起推敲。楊振寧多年前就中美教育，提出了他的觀點：（1）中國基礎教育扎實，創新不足；美國基礎不牢，創新能力教強。（2）中國中小學教育優于美國，高等教育不如美國。（3）中國教育適合于天資平庸者，美國教育適合于天資聰穎者。并且他的觀點也得到了國內教育界的普遍認同。那么，“中國的中學生屢獲國際奧林匹克競賽獎”是否就說明中國基礎教育優于美國，“而當今中國尚未培養出獲諾貝爾獎的人才”是否就說明美國高等教育優于中國呢？在楊振寧提出他的觀點多年后，2003年11月，1982年最高榮譽菲爾斯數學獎獲得者美籍華人丘成桐提出，所謂中國學生的基礎知識強于美國，“這都是多少年來可怕的自我陶醉”。丘成桐的話對一直沉浸在“中國基礎教育優于美國”而沾沾自喜的我們，可謂是當頭一棒。本書雖未對此問題給予明確的答案，但其中眾多平實的例子卻是正好不過的證明。

通過這次的閱讀，我糾正了自己以前的一些錯誤想法。下面我就結合此書談談幾個本質上的錯誤認識。

1、對于創造，我的定義是，只要創出別人想象不到的，或不曾想到的，基本上就是創造。但通過學習，我認識到創造應該是把“創”和“造”這兩部分有機地聯在一起。“想出新方法”來解決了數學難題，這無疑是創造。但如果只“想出新方法”，而這個新方法并不能解決任何數學難題，這則是只“創”不“造”； “做出新的成績或東西”的說法也界定不清，用舊的方法往往也能 “做出新的成績或東西”，這同樣不能算創造！創造，所謂“創”就是打破常規，所謂“造”就是在打破常規的基礎上產生出具有現實意義的東西——包括方法、理論、產品、事物等。也就是說，創造必須具有兩個要件：不打破常規，無所謂“創”；不“造”出具有現實意義的東西，只能是天花亂墜的想入非非。因此，創造性或創造力是指能打破常規去產生出具有現實意義的東西之特性或能力。

2、技能與創造的本質區別。一直以來我總是把技能與創造擺在同等重要的位置，覺得技能等同于創造。聽了黃教授的分析，才發現了我又一認識上的誤區。技能是指“掌握和運用專門技術的能力”。技能是可以由老師傳授的，但創造性是無法教出來的。“練”與“教”是兩個不同的概念，但中國傳統意義的“教”卻與“訓練”混淆到了“剪不斷，理還亂”的地步。

由于中國的傳統文化數千年來從未把學生看作教育的主體，從來只把學生當成知識的接受器，而不是知識的主人，因此，學生無論何時何地都是被傳道、被授業、被解惑的對象。學生在整個“教”與“學”的過程中，始終處于被動的地位，因而缺乏一種主體意識和主動精神。把“教”變成了“訓練”。創造性只能培養，不能教！創造性就像種子一樣，它需要一定的環境：包括土壤、氣候、科學的灌溉、施肥、培養才能發芽、生根、開花、結果。教育工作者就是要去創造這樣一種適合培養學生創造性的環境。培養創造力必須要開發智力，但開發智力卻不等于培養創造力。因此，培養創造力應該是素質教育的重要核心，是初級教育和高級教育這兩個階段必須貫穿一致的核心。

3、對于孩子的懲罰。我從教以來一直都認為嚴格的懲罰會是孩子避免錯誤二次發生的最有效手段。今天，我明白了對于孩子的懲罰，不是我客觀的、被動地強加給學生的，而是讓孩子通過體驗一些錯誤帶來的惡果，讓孩子自己認識到問題的嚴重性，找到問題的根本所在。只有孩子意識到了這一點，在以后的生活中才會努力避免。通過這樣的分析我們會發現這才是教育的根本宗旨所在，素質教育應該是人的教育。

當然，對于學生的個性培養、師生關系等，我也有了更進一步的認識，盡管中國、美國的教育方式，大的前提不是能很快的發生根本性轉變的，但是作為一名未來可能成為教師的我們，應該掌握這最新、最真、最準的理念，用先進的理念武裝自己的頭腦，努力搞好我們中國的素質教育。