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抱歉老師,我覺得睡覺比做作業更重要

2017-11-15 05:18
新東方英語·中學版 2017年11期
關鍵詞:高二勾股定理做作業

關于高二作業多、睡眠少的凄苦生涯,這位美國學生有話要說。

Junior year: a time of studying, stress and anxiety about our futures. For many of us, the college process begins the August or September of our junior year. We wake up very early to go to school, maybe even earlier to meet with a teacher, complete our extracurricular activities, come home to have a quick dinner, talk for eight minutes with our parents and do homework until we fall asleep. But then we remember. We have to look at the ACT packet1) one more time. Half asleep, we run downstairs to get the ACT book, and start studying. Section 1, section 2, section 3. Fifteen to 30 minutes a day is what they say keeps low ACT scores away. We spend hours going over where to put a comma in a sentence, or how to apply the Pythagorean theorem2). After this, we finally get to turn off the lights and drift away to sleep. And then six hours later, we do it all over again.

This is a snapshot3) of the daily routine of many high school juniors. For those of you juniors who are reading this, I sympathize with you. Just know that in a few months, it will all be over. For readers who were once juniors, congratulations on making it through. And for the readers who are soon to be juniors ... well... good luck.

In my freshmen health class, my teacher told us that teenagers need at least eight to nine hours of sleep each night. In a Utopian society, this would be possible. The sad truth is, with extracurricular activities, ACT test preparation, after school sports and music, excessive homework and pressure to do well, high school juniors cannot maintain this sleep schedule. As much as our growing minds and bodies crave4) nine hours of sleep each night, there is no time.

Let me ask you all a question: Doesn't it seem more humane to assign a teenager perhaps two hours of homework each night? This would allow us a tiny bit of down time5) after a long day of school, 6:00 AM tennis practice, music lessons, ACT preparation, Robotics club or sports. Two hours of homework would enable us to have that coveted6) eight to nine hours of much needed sleep. Or does it seem better to pile juniors with five hours of work a night, leaving very little time to relax, therefore decreasing7) the amount of time that they can sleep? If you are sane, then you should choose the former. Teenagers need more sleep. The future success of our society depends on changing the bad habits of burying our youth with work and depriving8) us of sleep.endprint

In my opinion, junior year of high school is a time for growth. By junior year many students have the ability to think critically, and solve challenging problems. Separation from peers and parents may begin as we start to prepare for college. The current structure of the junior year is troubling and inefficient. Students should not lumber9) into class half asleep or doze off10) in their early morning physics class. I do think that flipping the classroom11) literally means flipping your schedule, so that way we sleep at home, and learn at school. I think that we need to prioritize sleep over homework. Yes, homework is crucial for a student's growth. But do we really need to spend countless hours a night doing it? Let's make a change. Change junior year.

高二,一段充滿壓力、對未來感到焦慮的學習時光。對我們許多人而言,大學升學的過程從高二的八九月就開始了。我們早早起床去學校,若要跟老師見面、完成課外活動,甚至還可能起得更早;我們回到家匆匆吃完晚飯,與父母說八分鐘話,然后便開始做作業,一直做到自己睡著了。但后來我們想起來,我們還得再看一遍ACT (編注:美國大學入學考試,相當于美國高考)的資料。于是半睡半醒間,我們跑下樓去拿ACT的書,又開始學習。第一部分,第二部分,第三部分。他們說每天看15~30分鐘就能告別ACT低分。我們會花上數小時溫習要在句子的哪個地方加逗號,或者勾股定理該如何應用。此后,我們終于能關掉燈昏昏沉沉入睡了。接著六小時之后,我們又要把所有這些再重來一遍。

這就是許多高二學生的日常生活概況。對于那些正讀這篇文章的高二學生,我對你們深表同情。要知道幾個月后,這一切都會結束的。對于那些走過高二的讀者,祝賀你們挺了過來。而對那些即將步入高二的讀者們……嗯……祝你們好運。

在高一的新生健康課上,老師告訴我們青少年每晚至少需要8~9小時的睡眠。在烏托邦社會中,這是有可能的??杀氖?,面對課外活動、ACT備考、課后運動和音樂、過多的家庭作業,以及要表現優秀的壓力,高二的學生們不可能保持這一睡眠作息。盡管我們正在成長的身心渴望著每晚九小時的睡眠,可我們卻沒有時間。

我來問你們一個問題:給青少年每晚布置大概兩小時的作業,不是更加人性化嗎?這樣在除了學校的漫長一天、早晨6點的網球練習、音樂課程、ACT備考、機器人俱樂部或者運動之外,我們還能擁有一點點的休息時間。兩小時的家庭作業就可以讓我們得到那夢寐以求并且急需的8~9個小時的睡眠。讓高二學生每晚做五小時作業,幾乎不給他們留休息時間,致使他們的睡眠時間縮短,難道這樣更好嗎?一個人只要神志清醒,就該選擇前者。青少年需要更多睡眠。社會未來的成功取決于改變讓我們的青少年埋頭苦學并剝奪其睡眠的這些壞習慣。

在我看來,高中的第二年是段成長的時期。到了高二,很多學生已經有能力去進行批判性地思考,并解決具有挑戰性的問題。與同伴和父母的分離可能在我們準備上大學時就開始了。高二目前的安排令人不安且效率低下。學生們不該疲憊地拖著腳步地走進教室,或者在清晨的物理課上打盹。我確實認為翻轉課堂實際上意味著要翻轉時間表,這樣我們便能在家睡覺,在校學習。我覺得我們需要把睡眠置于作業之上。沒錯,作業對學生的發展至關重要。不過我們真的需要每晚花費無數個小時來做作業嗎?讓我們改變一下,改變高二吧。

1. packet [?p?k?t] n. 小包裹,這里是復習資料包。

2. Pythagorean theorem: 畢達哥拉斯定理,即勾股定理。畢達哥拉斯是古希臘數學家,人們認為他是有記載的第一個證明勾股定理的人,因此以他的名字命名。

3. snapshot [?sn?p??t] n. 大致印象;簡況

4. crave [kre?v] vt. 渴望,渴求

5. down time: 不工作的時間,即休息時間。

6. coveted [?k?v?t?d] adj. 人人向往的

7. decrease [d??kri?s] vt. 使減少

8. deprive [d??pra?v] vt. 剝奪;使喪失

9. lumber [?l?mb?(r)] vi. (緩慢而笨拙地)挪動,移動

10. doze off: (尤指在白天)打瞌睡,打盹兒

11. flip [fl?p] vt. 翻轉。flip the classroom: 翻轉課堂。翻轉課堂(flipped classroom)是一種教學模式,指重新調整課堂內外的時間,將學習的決定權從教師轉移給學生。在這種教學模式下,學生能夠利用課堂內的寶貴時間,主動進行基于項目的學習,共同研究解決本地化或全球化的挑戰以及現實世界面臨的其他問題。教師不再占用課堂時間來講授信息,這些信息需要學生在課前完成自主學習,他們可以看視頻講座、聽播客、閱讀功能增強的電子書,還能在網絡上與別的同學討論,能在任何時候去查閱需要的材料。在課后,學生自主規劃學習內容、學習節奏,而教師則采用講授法和協作法來滿足學生的需要、促成他們的個性化學習,幫助他們通過實踐掌握知識。endprint

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