2012年是狄更斯诞辰200周年，狄更斯是第一位描绘城市工业化的作家，这位当时的新生作家以其细致，写实和宏大的批判现实主义写作手法，独到地捕捉伦敦的城市扩张对人性的影响，赢得了世人的关注和认可。他的作品一直影响着后人，并一直发挥着现实意义，尤其是他的白描写作手法获得了广泛地继承和发扬，并且以各种艺术表现形式得到诠释。为纪念狄更斯200周年诞辰，英国大使馆文化教育处将从2011年9月起在中国主办系列文化教育活动，发掘狄更斯对当代生活的深远影响和作用。在学校层面，活动通过“我们的时代–中英校际连线之狄更斯2012项目”，向这位英国文学史上伟大的作家致敬的同时，也希望启发年轻人更好地关注和理解自己所身处的时代。

活动首先由学生表演了《雾都孤儿》舞台剧片段，之后来自南洋中学英国姐妹学校温登姆中学的国际交流生，南洋学子的同龄人Jake，以“CHARLES DICKENS——LIFE AND WORKS”为题，从一名英国学生的角度，介绍了狄更斯的生平、作品和写作风格、作品意义以及自己阅读狄更斯作品的感受，这给了同学们一种另外的视角和文化角度的对狄更斯作品阅读的感受，同学受益匪浅。随后，全场进行了互动交流问题的环节，有同学活动前画画，大家通过画的内容猜作品作者；也有关于狄更斯文化和作品的常识题问答等，活动由此掀起了又一个高潮。最后的环节，两名学生表演了诗朗诵和歌唱《再别康桥》。

这次活动，是中英校际连线，课程共建和文化交流活动的一次尝试。在之前一个多星期的时间里，南洋中学高一全体新生在语文老师的带领下，各班以各种方式阅读狄更斯，感受外国文学，了解英国文化，还在语文课上观看了由狄更斯作品改编的电影《圣诞颂歌》。这是不一样的一种学习方式。通过校际连线，学生们感受了一种不一样的学习过程。同时，通过中英校际连线的平台，学校也会将狄更斯2012课程共建项目的学习方案、过程和资料与英国姐妹学校诺福克郡温登姆中学Wymondham College分享。

 

 

 

 

附录1：你就是整个世界——“我们的时代”Dickens 2012项目在南洋主持稿

合：各位领导，各位老师，各位同学，大家下午好。

男：今天，我们的主题是“你就是整个世界”——“我们的时代”Dickens 2012项目在南洋。

男：下面请欣赏一个短剧，它是根据狄更斯作品，由同学们自己精心改编而成的。请欣赏。

短剧表演

女：感谢同学们的精彩表演。同学们看后能不能猜猜看这是根据狄更斯的哪部作品改编的呢？……大家一起说……

男：没错，这是狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》,大家回答得很正确！看来狄更斯已经走近南洋人心。

男：《雾都孤儿》让我们的记忆回到雾都伦敦，今天，我们有幸请来了来自伦敦的同龄人Jack,请他来谈一谈他眼中的狄更斯以及英国的同龄人如何阅读狄更斯。

女：有请Jack。

Jack演讲  环节（略）

男：谢谢Jack的精彩演说。Jack的演说让我们来了一场头脑风暴，原来地球的那端，对文化的瑰宝如此的珍惜和重视。

男：学校为了奖励大家对此次狄更斯活动的投入和付出，也是此次活动的一种纪念。

女：下面，我们进行赠书仪式，请各班班长上台受书，请学校领导和Jack为大家赠书。有请学校领导****和Jack。

男：紧张了一段时间后，让我们来轻松一下。

女：接下来，我们将要进入知识竞答环节。

男：同学们，为了我们的时代，为了班级，也为了你自己，为荣誉而战！

女：此环节一共7道题，请各班同学举手答题，答对的同学我们有小小的奖励，我们还设有班级优胜奖，现场表现突出的班级将获此殊荣。

男：第一题，请大家根据同学的画作猜猜看，画面上的是狄更斯作品中的哪个人物？请举手回答。请介绍一下班级姓名。……

请画作者公布正确答案。答对了！谢谢两位。

女：第二题，一样的，画面上的人物是谁呢？请举手回答。请介绍一下班级姓名。……

请画作者公布正确答案。答对了！谢谢两位。

男：第三题，请大家猜猜看，画面上画作者想表现的是狄更斯的哪部作品？请举手回答。请介绍一下班级姓名。……

请画作者公布正确答案。答对了！谢谢两位。

女：第四题，猜人物。请举手回答。请介绍一下班级姓名。……

请画作者公布正确答案。答对了！谢谢两位。

男：第五题，狄更斯为英国____文学的开拓和发展做出了卓越的贡献。

•       A浪漫主义   B现实主义   C社会主义    D文化教育

请举手选择。请介绍一下班级姓名。……

请出题者公布正确答案。（出题人：高一4梁诗华正确答案：B）答对了！谢谢两位。

女：第六题，《圣诞颂歌》三个幽灵分别代表了什么？

•       A、“昨日圣诞”“今日圣诞”“未来圣诞”

•       B、斯克罗吉的过去、现在、未来

•       C、告诉斯克罗吉应该如何做才能改变

•       D、未来可能发生的事

请举手回答。请介绍一下班级姓名。请出题者公布正确答案。（出题人：高一 3 王佳依正确答案：BC）答对了！谢谢两位。

男：第七题下面哪一部不是狄更斯的作品，请选择。

•       A、《大卫?科波菲尔》   B、《雾都孤儿》   C、《百万英镑》            D、《孤儿泪》

请举手选择。请介绍一下班级姓名。……（请出题者公布正确答案。供题人：高一8班何征晖）正确答案：C答对了！谢谢两位。

男：谢谢狄更斯，也谢谢Jack,也谢谢大家的积极参与。

女：在此次中英校际连线活动中，大家踊跃出题，为我们南洋中学建立狄更斯题库做出了巨大贡献，这里一并谢谢供题的同学和老师，谢谢大家。

男：因为时间关系，我们不能一一展示大家的智慧和成果，希望有机会我们建立网络平台，沟通世界，沟通英伦，在狄更斯的世界里，让我们年轻的心在这地球村越走越近。

女：了解狄更斯，了解英国的，我们的交流可以更多元。语文课上刚刚好的《再别康桥》，也给我们的校园抹上了一层英伦风情。

男：徐志摩说自己的眼睛是剑桥给睁开的，在康桥他有的是闲的光明，草的青，花的香，流水的殷情。

女：下面请欣赏《再别康桥》。

男：谢谢胡杨，谢谢金平悦。我们将透过摄相机镜头将我们的文化传递给英国温登姆中学。

女：快乐的时光总是很短暂，一个小时的交流这么快就结束了。

男：但是，我想，我们的友谊将因为狄更斯，从此刻开始，将一直会延续……

女：最后，作为此次中英校际联线活动的后续活动，读过狄更斯，认识了Jack，我们心里一定有好多要说的话，要写的事，如果你愿意，请拿起你的笔，写下你的心路历程，写下狄更斯对你成长的记忆，《我们的时代》有奖征文活动期待你的加入。Ppt上展示的是活动的官网和具体的操作程序，文学作品只需要500字即可，请大家积极参与。

男：上次的摄影大赛已经有作品陆陆续续交到我们手中，请大家继续支持，继续参与到我们的活动中，谢谢大家。

男：相信大家在积极参与的同时，无论是对社会的认知，还是自身心灵成长，都将取得丰富的收获。

女：狄更斯在《双城记》里说：“对这个世界来说，你可能只是一个人，但对某些人来说，你可能就是整个世界。”

男：同学们，这是一个属于我们的时代，未来就在我们手中，世界就在我们的脚下。

女：今天，我们的舞台，属于你，属于我，属于我们的时代。

男：今天，我们的舞台，不仅是思想的风云际会，更是交流的文化盛事。

男：同学们，拿出你的智慧，秀出你的才华，就在此刻！

合：你，就是整个世界！

合：本次活动到此结束！谢谢大家！

 

附录2：Jake” CHARLES DICKENS——LIFE AND WORKS”演讲摘要

SLIDE 1:

In the next 25 minutes , I am hoping to both recap your knowledge on the subject of Dickens’ work and ideology as well as present you with some new information on the topic.

SLIDE 2:

There are various points which should be considered during the course of this presentation :

- these include: reason behind the project   , history behind Dickens’ work, aspects which make his works so unique, Dickens’ style and ideology, message of Christmas carol

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Firstly and most importantly, the project marks the writer’s 200 th birthday, which in itself is a very special anniversary

The second reason lies in Dickens’ approach towards writing. His social commentary along the side of critical thinking encourages the readers to challenge opinions of others, rather than merely agreeing to what they’re faced with.

This is particularly important in our era of globalization, where we are constantly expected to develop alternative ways of thinking. The world requires us to be more inventive and we cannot succeed unless we question what  we see and consider different options. Dickens is an example of a person who experienced the difficulties in life and yet managed to succeed through determination and courage to criticise what he believed was wrong.  As you are probably already aware, he experienced various hardships as a child, `and was therefore in position to judge the system and its .

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Dicken’s work, provides the reader with detailed contextual background, allowing for a better understanding of the characters’ thoughts and behaviours. Whilst reading his works, we are not only able to appreciate its style but we are also able to find out more about the way in which people in Britain lead their lives in Dickens’ times.

Reading Dickens work encourages  us to have a more global perspective and greater civic awareness -  understanding of other cultures, cross-border thinking are just a part of the process/. Although his works date back to beginning of 19th century, he employed the same concepts we are expected to develop nowadays :  individual social observation, critical thinking and innovation. So the Dickens project is also there to inspire us to employ a different perspective of the world we live in.

SLIDE 6:

The age of 15 he graduated from Wellington College, then entered a law firm, and later into the newspaper, reporting parliament.

SLIDE 8: CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION

During the 19th century Britain was transformed by the industrial revolution. In 1801, at the time of the first census, only about 20% of the population lived in towns. By 1881 about two thirds of the population lived in towns.

Furthermore in 1801 the majority of the population still worked in agriculture or related industries. Most goods were made by hand and very many craftsmen worked on their own with perhaps a labourer and an apprentice. By the late 19th century factories were common and most goods were made by machine.

The industrial revolution created a demand for female and child labour. Children had always worked alongside their parents but before the 19th century they usually worked part time. In the new textile factories women and children were often made to work very long hours (often 12 hours a day or even longer).

In the early 19th century much working class housing was appalling. It was overcrowded and unsanitary. Conditions  grew much worse when vast numbers of people lived together in a small area.

Furthermore towns had been dirty and unsanitary for centuries. It was difficult to solve the problem, as England was divided into parishes ( small communities)  each of which was controlled by individual commissioners.

In the early 19th century in most towns there were no building regulations.  These houses were literally back to back. The back of one house joined the back of another. They usually consisted of two or three rooms. Very poor people slept on straw because they could not afford beds.

In 1834 Government  passed the Poor Law Amendment Act. poor were to be treated as harshly as possible to dissuade them from seeking help from the state. Able bodied people with no income were to be forced to enter a workhouse.

. Married couples were separated and children over 7 were separated from their parents. The inmates were made to do hard work like breaking stones to make roads.

SLIDE 9:

Dickens was the first writer depicting urban industrialization. He mainly concentrated on realism and critical realism to capture the impact of human nature. This has won him worldwide attention and recognition .

SLIDE 10:

expose the elite and bourgeois hypocrisy, greed, Beisuo, cruel, full of anger and deepest sympathy to show the lower society, especially women, children and the plight of the elderly, and a serious, cautious description awakening of the working class struggle: hard times - The former shows the industrial capitalists of the brutal exploitation and oppression of workers, describing the unity of the working class struggle, and criticized the defense for the capitalist exploitation of the principle of free competition and the utilitarian theory.

SLIDE 11:

Dickens' Dickens is not only a prolific writer, is also an active performer. His reading of the public (public readings) turned into two hours monologue drama performances, and "quick book" (prompt books / prompt copies) was made to prepare him for this record: In the original plan on the box, choose to be out eliminating the dendrites, and occasionally add something new joke - the genius of the performers, characters expression marks are not needed. Di's reading / drama will be started in December 1853 to the end of its life. So except for being an incredible writer he also supported other ways of spreading his ideas, such as drama.

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he writes in a poetic way and uses a lot of satire and consequently humor.

He is a master using cliff hanger endings he was able to keep his readers interested in his stories. Before he published his first novels, they were released as episodes in newspapers, which cought people’s interest and made them await following episodes with great agitation. ?

SLIDE 13: Dickens uses idealized characters in his books, this in itself can be a very bad thing because an idealized character does not have any room to grow throughout the course of the book. However Dickens does not make all of his characters perfect, rather he uses his idealized characters to contrast the ugly side of life that he so often portrays. Oliver Twist is an example of one of his idealized characters, during the course of the book Oliver is put through many trials including an evil orphanage and a small training center for thieves. Throughout all of this Oliver is naive and his values are never compromised even though he is put in very difficult situations. If Dickens had not idealized Oliver the book would have been dark with very little joy in it.

SLIDE 14: DICKENS’ STYLE

Dickens also loves to employ incredible circumstances in his books. In Oliver Twist, Oliver turns out to be the nephew of the rich high class family that rescues him from the gang of thieves that Oliver had fallen in with.

Using these incredible coincidences was popular for authors during Dickens's time, but he uses it in a distinct way. While other authors of the period would use the method to further their plot in their simple picturesque stories, Dickens's took the approach that good will triumph over evil sometimes even in very unexpected. Expressed his views

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His work is a critique of  the rich upper class of London who ignored the starving population outside their window.  Just like Scrooge many people believed they had no obligation to help others.

So it appears that Scrooge is a representation of all the people and his puinishment brought upon him by the 4 ghosts throughout the course of the novella is his way of criticising the high class in the british society.  Whilst we on this topic: you’ve all seen the film Christmas carol, right? In this case, can someone tell me what happens in the story? What are the r4 spirits? What happens to scrooge at the end of the story? Does he change at all or does he stay the same?

SLIDE 16:

Range of  metaphors and symbolism, which help to define character. Great Expectations:  personality expressed through descriptions of surroundings. . In the book Great Expectations, Dickens illustrates Jagger's dark and gloomy personalities through painting vivid descriptions of his office.

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His satires of British aristocratic . Comparing orphans to stocks and shares, people to tug boats, or dinner party guests to furniture are just some of Dickens’ flights of fancy. Dickens' novels were, among other things, works of social commentary. He was a fierce critic of the poverty and social stratification of Victorian society. Throughout his works, Dickens retained an empathy for the common man and a scepticism for the fine folk.