美国学生怎么写读书报告？（★）

第一篇：美国学生怎么写读书报告？

美国学生怎么写读书报告？

如何写读书报告？这是美国学生的基本功，但是却是中国的孩子的弱点，江博读书会特邀请Timothy（出生于美国，且在美国某著名中学就读）按照他得学习体会跟大家分享一下读书报告的写法。

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.本文转自：北京英语培训

第二篇：美国文学读书报告

091112班 黄茜茜 美国文学选读

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：美国文学读书报告

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：美国学生实习报告

我不得不承认我的实习更接近于一次独立学习，而不是一份真正的工作----虽然早已知道那是在大学里。当我到达时，我可以选择愿意学习的科目。我选择了人工智能，在这之前对此没有一点真正的概念。我和高教授工作，他是学校最有威望的教授之一。高教授正在研制一种能够学会闻并且分辨不同化学物质的电子鼻。他有几个研究生学生，每个人发展不同的运算法则，他们编写程序，从电子鼻中提取输入数据并教会网络运用嗅觉分辨。他们给我一个标准运算法则，让我改进它-----为了了解这个主题的基本知识，这个任务就意味着大量的阅读和对材料的研究。最初三个星期的时间大部分都花在阅读教材，研究初始运算法则以及阅读科技文章上。接下来三个星期的时间，大部分用于对初始程序和运行测试进行各种启发式修正。我没有在这个领域做出重大突破，但我确实学到一些东西，并且做出一个相当不错的终极产品。

我住的是华东理工大学留学生公寓的单人房间。令人满意的是，公寓里有餐厅，也有洗衣机，而且还有单独的浴室。总体说来，我对住宿条件比较满意，不过我在房间里待的时间不多。

我在中国的经历与我所设想的大不一样，有几个原因。对于工作经验我多少有点失望，因为我更象一个学生研究者而非雇员。这不能完全算一次国际培训，更多的是在中国进行我在美国所干的同样的事。然而，工作本身既不耗时间也不很严格。我有很多自由支配的时间，并且我对到上海市区里去也很积极。学校位于商业区外，周围环境较差，我就尽可能到城里去。结果，我每周在一所学校教两个小时的英语，并且结交了很多中国朋友，他们邀请我看电影和戏剧，还教我烹饪。对于这类事情我记得比工作多。

不过，我的最有意义的文化交流不是和中国人。由于住在留学生公寓，我的大部分好朋友都来自非洲，东南亚以及中东。与这些人交流很有意思，他们也是我将保持联络的人。在上海外出，尤其是在晚上，你会在非常舒适的环境中遇到来自世界各地，思想开放的人。

来到中国是我一生中最激烈最有回报的体验之一。我一个人来，不知道我将待在哪里，不知道我将做什么。如果事情不顺利，也绝对没有安全体系可以依靠。我是整个大学以及学校周围地区里唯一的西方学生。我对中国人的生活有了很到位的了解，也交了很多世界各地的朋友。我到上海时只有一个电话联络号码，而回去时笔记本上已记满了联系方式和我的观察所得。我迫不及待地等待着下一次出国的机会。谢谢。

第五篇：《素质教育在美国》读书报告

素质教育在美国

还有2个月就到了又一年的高考，“一分都不能差”的中国高考制度，对我们来说是在熟悉不过了。但是下面我们来看看一个留美博士，他是如何用他那犀利的眼光洞察中美教育差异的。黄全愈是一位在中国的教育中成长，在美国的教育中成才的留美博士，他对中国和美国的教育都有深刻的体会和思考。这次我要讲的就是黄全愈博士的《素质教育在美国》，又名《留美博士眼中的中美教育》，这本书不长，所以我花了一天就看完了，但是作者讲诉的那些问题却个个发人深省。当我第二遍细细品味时，才明白，有些问题我们一直以来都理解的不是很到位。这本书主要讲了中国素质教育和美国素质教育的不同点和根本区别。作者“采取了一个较自由的既叙事又论理的写作方式”，用作者的话来说，“只希望读者能在轻松愉快的阅读中思考一些问题，更希望得到读者的认可”。确实，文章中作者利用发生在儿子矿矿身上及其发生在周围的一些脍炙人口的例子，对中美教育进行比较，在对中国素质教育提出一些疑问的同时，给我们留下了很大的反思空间。

全书共分十个部分来叙述：

一、创造性能不能教？

二、能不能用左手写字？

三、要不要投自己一票？

四、老师能不能有错别字？

五、要不要教育孩子什么是对，什么是错？

六、到大学阶段方做学问吗？

七、教育要不要平等？

八、要不要惩罚孩子？

九、几个值得思考的教育观念问题。

十、几个值得思考的教育体制问题。

作者在其文字中并没有对以上每个问题做出明确的解答，但却在平实的字里行间，表达了他的观点。特别是在本书的第一章《创造性能不能教》中，作者讲述了一件非常有趣的事。受中国画启蒙教育的儿子三岁就能画出像模像样的国画，来到美国后，作者把有着绘画天赋的儿子送进了迈阿密大学美术学院办的绘画学习班，可是在这个班里，儿子却无法落笔画画，因为，老师什么也不教，只让学生涂鸦似的乱画，甚为不满的作者立即让儿子退出了这个“误人子弟”的绘画班。可后来，作者发现，美国孩子在绘画的时候有着充分的想象力和创造力，他们从不问“像不像”，而是问“好不好”，也就是画得独特不独特。而中国孩子评判一幅画好坏的标准却是“像不像”。像不像老师的画，像不像现实中的实物。如果没有一个参照物，他们就根本无法下笔。看到这儿，我不禁想到：我们的素质教育和美国的素质教育究竟有何区别呢？带着问题我一口气看完了这本书，看完这本书后，我陷入了深深的思考和反省之中。本书的十个部分涉及到的问题，都是目前我国教育中碰到的困惑。很多问题在国内引发了很多争论。比如，本书封面提出的问题，“中国的中学生屡获国际奥林匹克竞赛奖，而当今中国尚未培养出获诺贝尔奖的人才，这是不是发人深省的中华民族的一个困惑？”这确实是一个困惑，所以才引发了这么多争论。“我国最好的大学，北大、清华在世界大学的排行榜中一直在300名以外，近几年，北大进入300名了，但也仅仅是靠在300名，而清华则是接近300名了；”就中国目前的经济发展水平，“建设世界一流大学的路漫漫其修远！”。中国的科技发展也还任重道远，所以中国离诺贝尔奖的距离远矣。这似乎也是中国没有培养诺贝

尔奖的一个原由。但想想，世界上不是也有很多比中国穷、比中国科技发展落后的国家获得过诺贝尔奖吗？这种理解似乎不那么经得起推敲。杨振宁多年前就中美教育，提出了他的观点：（1）中国基础教育扎实，创新不足；美国基础不牢，创新能力教强。（2）中国中小学教育优于美国，高等教育不如美国。（3）中国教育适合于天资平庸者，美国教育适合于天资聪颖者。并且他的观点也得到了国内教育界的普遍认同。那么，“中国的中学生屡获国际奥林匹克竞赛奖”是否就说明中国基础教育优于美国，“而当今中国尚未培养出获诺贝尔奖的人才”是否就说明美国高等教育优于中国呢？在杨振宁提出他的观点多年后，2003年11月，1982年最高荣誉菲尔斯数学奖获得者美籍华人丘成桐提出，所谓中国学生的基础知识强于美国，“这都是多少年来可怕的自我陶醉”。丘成桐的话对一直沉浸在“中国基础教育优于美国”而沾沾自喜的我们，可谓是当头一棒。本书虽未对此问题给予明确的答案，但其中众多平实的例子却是正好不过的证明。

通过这次的阅读，我纠正了自己以前的一些错误想法。下面我就结合此书谈谈几个本质上的错误认识。

1、对于创造，我的定义是，只要创出别人想象不到的，或不曾想到的，基本上就是创造。但通过学习，我认识到创造应该是把“创”和“造”这两部分有机地联在一起。“想出新方法”来解决了数学难题，这无疑是创造。但如果只“想出新方法”，而这个新方法并不能解决任何数学难题，这则是只“创”不“造”； “做出新的成绩或东西”的说法也界定不清，用旧的方法往往也能 “做出新的成绩或东西”，这同样不能算创造！创造，所谓“创”就是打破常规，所谓“造”就是在打破常规的基础上产生出具有现实意义的东西——包括方法、理论、产品、事物等。也就是说，创造必须具有两个要件：不打破常规，无所谓“创”；不“造”出具有现实意义的东西，只能是天花乱坠的想入非非。因此，创造性或创造力是指能打破常规去产生出具有现实意义的东西之特性或能力。

2、技能与创造的本质区别。一直以来我总是把技能与创造摆在同等重要的位置，觉得技能等同于创造。听了黄教授的分析，才发现了我又一认识上的误区。技能是指“掌握和运用专门技术的能力”。技能是可以由老师传授的，但创造性是无法教出来的。“练”与“教”是两个不同的概念，但中国传统意义的“教”却与“训练”混淆到了“剪不断，理还乱”的地步。

由于中国的传统文化数千年来从未把学生看作教育的主体，从来只把学生当成知识的接受器，而不是知识的主人，因此，学生无论何时何地都是被传道、被授业、被解惑的对象。学生在整个“教”与“学”的过程中，始终处于被动的地位，因而缺乏一种主体意识和主动精神。把“教”变成了“训练”。创造性只能培养，不能教！创造性就像种子一样，它需要一定的环境：包括土壤、气候、科学的灌溉、施肥、培养才能发芽、生根、开花、结果。教育工作者就是要去创造这样一种适合培养学生创造性的环境。培养创造力必须要开发智力，但开发智力却不等于培养创造力。因此，培养创造力应该是素质教育的重要核心，是初级教育和高级教育这两个阶段必须贯穿一致的核心。

3、对于孩子的惩罚。我从教以来一直都认为严格的惩罚会是孩子避免错误二次发生的最有效手段。今天，我明白了对于孩子的惩罚，不是我客观的、被动地强加给学生的，而是让孩子通过体验一些错误带来的恶果，让孩子自己认识到问题的严重性，找到问题的根本所在。只有孩子意识到了这一点，在以后的生活中才会努力避免。通过这样的分析我们会发现这才是教育的根本宗旨所在，素质教育应该是人的教育。

当然，对于学生的个性培养、师生关系等，我也有了更进一步的认识，尽管中国、美国的教育方式，大的前提不是能很快的发生根本性转变的，但是作为一名未来可能成为教师的我们，应该掌握这最新、最真、最准的理念，用先进的理念武装自己的头脑，努力搞好我们中国的素质教育。