1. Love is a fallacy
------Max Shulman

2. warm-up activity On love
If to give an individual definition to love, what will your definition be?

3. ‘I’代表Listen（倾听），爱就是要无条件无偏见地倾听对方的需求，并且予以协助。
‘O’代表Oilgate（感恩），爱需要不断地感恩与慰问，付出更多的爱，浇灌爱苗。
‘V’代表Valued（尊重），爱就是展现你的尊重，表达体贴，真诚的鼓励，悦耳的赞美。
‘E’代表Excuse（宽恕），爱就是仁慈地对待，宽恕对方的缺点与错误，维持优点与长处。

4. love --- move---- from heart

5. Max Shulman
Max Shulman (March 14, 1919–August 28, 1988) was a 20th century American writer and humorist best known for his television and short story character Dobie Gillis, as well as for best-selling novels.
His writing often focused on young people, particularly in a collegiate setting.

6. overview of Dobie Gillis
The series revolved around teenager Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hickman), who aspired to have popularity, money, and the attention of beautiful and unattainable girls. He didn't have any of these qualities in abundance, and the tiny crises surrounding Dobie's lack of success made the story in each weekly episode. His partner-in-crime was American television's first beatnik, Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver). Krebs had a deep aversion( 反感，厌恶) to work; Maynard was convinced life is for enjoying. Dobie's father, Herbert T. Gillis (Frank Faylen), who owned a grocery store, was only happy when Dobie was behind a broom. Dobie's father was often caught up in various elaborate get-rich-quick schemes, or situational bail-outs à la Ralph Kramden, with Dobie getting ensnared along with him; by the end both came around grudgingly to Maynard's point of view.

7. The Beat Generation
The Beat Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired (later sometimes called "beatniks"). Central elements of "Beat" culture included experimentation with drugs and alternative forms of sexuality, an interest in Eastern religion, and a rejection of materialism.

8. The major works of Beat writing are Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959) and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957).

9. The language and topics of beat writing pushed the boundaries of acceptability in the conformist 1950s: they often openly discussed drug use, sexuality (in particular homosexuality) and criminal behavior without condemnation.

10. During the 1960s, the rapidly expanding Beat culture underwent a transformation: the Beat Generation spread and turned into the Counterculture of the 1960s, with a change in popular terminology from "beatnik" to "hippie".

11. After his success with the Gillis character, Shulman continued to write. His humor column, "On Campus," was syndicated（出售） in over 350 collegiate newspapers at one point. A later novel, Anyone Got a Match?, satirized both the television and tobacco industries, as well as the South and college football. His last major successful project was his work on House Calls, which began as a 1978 movie based on one of his stories which starred Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson, and later became a television series (1979–1981) starring Wayne Rogers and Lynn Redgrave in the same roles, for which he was the lead writer.

12. love is a fallacy

13. Teaching requirements
Build the students’ vocabulary power. Help the students to get the general ideas of the text in both meaning and language. Build the students’ writing skills by analyzing this piece of vivid, dramatic and humorous narrative writing with colorful lexical spectrum as well as light satire.

14. Key points of teaching
an understanding on the eight common logical fallacies by learning the text; an analysis of effective writing skills of using contrast to create humorous effects and colorful lexical spectrum ranging from the bookish terms to the clipped(简短的) vulgar expressions

15. Logical fallacies:
Dicto Simpliciter
Hasty generalization
Post Hoc
Contradictory Premises
Ad Misericordiam
False Analogy
Hypothesis Contrary to Fact
Poisoning the Well

16. Rhetorical Devices:
1. metaphor
3. antithesis
4. transferred epithet
4. hyperbole
5. metonymy
6. litotes
7. ellipsis
8. synecdoche
9. inversion
10. simile
11. mixed metaphor
12. rhetorical questions

17. Special Difficulties
1. Analyzing the logical fallacies
2. Using inverted sentences to achieve emphasis
3. Effectively using many figures of speech
4. Understanding colloquial expressions and slang
5. Allusions:
--Frankenstein
--Pygmalion
6. Paraphrasing some sentences
7. Identifying figures of speech

18. analysis of text
Para1-3
Leading-in of the essay

19. Paras 4-6 cool I Vs dumb Petey
What does “I” think of himself?
Is it common to have a 18-year-old so brilliant, according to himself?
What does the narrator think of his roommate, Petey, comparing to himself?
Why does he consider Petey dumb as an ox?

20. Paras the deal
“I” came back to the dormitory to find petey all depressed? Why?
Why does he want to have a raccoon coat so badly?
With what purpose did I help him to get the coat?
what kind of girl was Polly?
Where did I get the coat?

21. Paras the first date
How did the narrator’s first date go with Polly?
From the language Polly used, what kind of girl is she?
With Polly's disheartening stupidity, did the narrator intend to give her up?

22. Paras 62-98 the first logic lesson
Why did the narrator want to teach Polly logic?
Did the first logic lesson go very well with Polly?
Was “I” ready to give up yet?

23. Paras 99-123 the second logic lesson
Did the narrator finally succeed to make Polly understand some logic on the second logic lesson?

24. Para 124- the proposal Did the narrator love Polly?
How did Polly respond to the narrator’s arguments for going steady with her?
Why did he reject him?

25. Pygmalion
Pygmalion, in Roman mythology, sculptor of Cyprus. Pygmalion hated women and resolved never to marry. He worked, however, for many months on a statue of a beautiful woman, and eventually fell madly in love with it. Disconsolate because the statue remained lifeless and could not respond to his caresses, Pygmalion prayed to Venus, goddess of love, to send him a maiden like his statue. Venus answered his prayer by endowing the statue with life. The maiden, whom Pygmalion called Galatea, returned his love and bore him a son, Paphos, from whom the city sacred to Venus received its name.

26. Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
 Based on classical myth, Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion plays on the complex business of human relationships in a social world. Phonetics Professor Henry Higgins tutors the very Cockney Eliza Doolittle, not only in the refinement of speech, but also in the refinement of her manner. When the end result produces a very ladylike Miss Doolittle, the lessons learned become much more far reaching. The successful musical My Fair Lady was based on this Bernard Shaw classic.

27. Frankenstein
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft ( ), English novelist.
Daughter of the British philosopher William Godwin and the British author and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin,
Wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley
Accomplished Frankenstein at 20 in 1818.
Repeatedly dramatized for both the theater and motion pictures, this tale of Frankenstein, a student of the occult, and the subhuman monster he assembles from parts of human corpses added a new word to the English language: A “Frankenstein” is any creation that ultimately destroys its creator.