Novel+Presentation+-+Tuesdays+with+Morrie

- Mitch Albom is the writer as well as the narrator of the book. - It is a book recalling the memories of the intimate friendship between Mitch and his favorite professor, Morrie Schwartz - To Mitch, Morrie is like a friend to him rather than a Professor. They share feelings and values together. Mitch learns a lot from Morrie. - At the day of his graduation, Mitch promises his crying Professor that he will keep in touch with him. - However, he does not keep his promise. - After the graduation, Mitch is feeling frustrated with his chosen style of life. His choice of life is even completely changed after the death of his beloved uncle. - He surrenders his dream of becoming a musician and all the values that he believed before. - He begins to devote his life and time to material wealth and professional success. - It is not until Mitch find s that his old professor is dying from ALS ( Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), an incurable disease which ravages his body, Mitch returns to his dear old professor. - They have the life ’s greatest lessons together in the last life journey of Morrie, in which Morrie helps Mitch to achieve self-discovery and to re-discover the meaning of life **//1) //****// Resistance to Popular Culture //**  -  In the book, in each lesson with Mitch, Morrie insists the importance of getting rid of the popular culture’s influence and the creation of one’s own culture   -  He thinks that the popular culture such the pursuit of wealth and social status will only make the people to suffer in their lives - Instead of leading by the popular culture, Morrie creates his own culture founded on love, acceptance and open communication **//<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">2) //****// The significance of self-discovery and the meanings of life //**  <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">-  Mitch attends 13 lessons with Morrie and they talk about various important components of life <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;">i n each lesson.   <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">-  For example, the family, friendship, love and acceptance misfortune in life   <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">-  Morrie insists that only the family <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;">, f riendship and love will give people the greatest sense of fulfillment <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;"> in life. <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">- The lessons are actually a life journey in which Morrie guides Mitch to achieve self-discovery and to find out the meanings life **//<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">1) //****// It reflects social norms and social problems //**  <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">-  People nowadays are generally living in the dictatorship of popular cultures. The same as Mitch, most of them devote all of their time in pursuing money, success and happiness. But they don’t really know how to achieve the real happiness   <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">-  The influence of popular culture also creates serious social problems   <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">-  In recent years, drug abuse, school bullying and even sexual abuse have become serious teenage problems in HK   <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">-  Popular culture is blamed by some of the psychologists and educationists for its role in intensifying and accelerating the seriousness of the teenage problems <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">- For example, many games contain violent and sexual elements <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">- Also, some teenagers even upload the video clips of school bullying or sexual abuse in youtube or some forums and blogs to “share” with other people <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">- The popular culture shapes an atmosphere to the teenagers that things like school bullying are not crimes, but some heroic acts and it will be cool for them to do so   **//<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">2)  //****// A treatment to those teenage problems //**  <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">-  It teaches the students not to be manipulated by the popular culture   <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">-  It helps rebuild students’ values <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">- When reading the book, the students are actually attending the lessons with Mitch and Morrie together <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;">, which will help them to achieve self-discovery and the meanings of life at the same time <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">- F. 4 students (Grade 10) <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">- They are at the puberty period – ready to challenge the status quo and conventions in the society, fight for their own freedom and rights, defend their own ways of thinking <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">- They will be easily go on the wrong track <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;"> such as committing crimes or obtaining distorted values <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">- This book will <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;">help them obtain correct values and ways of thinking and guide them how to deal with problems <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">- Also, there will be a public examination in Form 5 (Grade 11)  <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msochartype: symbol; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">à  students enter a period of pressure and stress <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">- The way that Morrie faces the fear of death courageously <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;">will inspire the students that they should be brave and courageous when facing troubles and they should accept failures and learn from them instead of getting desperate and give up the faith as well as the dreams (may not be too simple!! <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msochartype: symbol; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">à  based on the language proficiency of HK students     <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msochartype: symbol; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">à  curriculum has just changed to include novel study lesson  <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msochartype: symbol; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">à  both the teachers and the students have no experience before  <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msochartype: symbol; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">à  too difficult if choosing a more complicated one) <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">1） **// Choosing the important sessions in the book and read together //**  <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msochartype: symbol; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">à  ask the students to take turn to read aloud  <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msochartype: symbol; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">à  more familiar with the contents of the book and to keep them be attentive in the class <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;"> (p.115 -116; p.155 <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msochartype: symbol; msofareastfontfamily: 新細明體; msofareastlanguage: ZH-HK; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">à <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;"> Acceptance and not be the slave of the culture) <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">2） **// Role – play //** <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msochartype: symbol; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">à  prepare a scene  <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msochartype: symbol; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">à  divide the students into 8 groups (5@8) (Scene <span style="font-family: SimSun; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">：  Sam is going to have public examination soon, he feels very stressful about it and he finds that sometimes he is mad of his parents because they keep asking him questions about his study. To escape from his parents, Sam will not come back to home until the late night every day. Sam has shared his negative feelings with two best friends, Mak and Tim. Mak tells Sam that many teenagers nowadays love taking drugs which enable them to attain happiness and forget all sorrows. Tim tries hard to persuade Sam not to listen to Mak and try to find other ways to help Sam) - Students <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;">in a group are required to take up one role in the scene and they have to take the responsibility for the development of the scene. - For example, how and what Sam’s parents react when they know Sam tries to escape from them? Who will Sam listen to and what will Tim do to help Sam **//<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">3) //****// Round up Acitivity //**   - Demonstration of the game <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;">  <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msochartype: symbol; msofareastfontfamily: 新細明體; msofareastlanguage: ZH-HK; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">à <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;"> students will be work on pairs - Purpose of the game <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msochartype: symbol; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">à  to build up their courage and faith when facing fear and problems <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msochartype: symbol; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">à to establish their confidence and trust in their friends or beloved one as to let them know that they can always find support and love from their friends and family whenever they are in trouble - In the book, each Tuesday lesson of Mitch and Morrie has a different topic. Choose a topic/ lesson in the book that inspires you the most and prepare a five-minute presentation next class to tell us why and how it influences you <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">- not mark-oriented, only a sharing <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">- to create a relaxed environment for novel study  <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msochartype: symbol; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">à  Ss will be more interested in the lessons <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">- helps train their oral skills and build up confidence in speaking English <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">- further triggers off their creativity and <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;">critical thinking <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">- to get a deeper and better understanding of the themes of the book <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">1) Do not have real experience of teaching novel <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;">  <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msochartype: symbol; msofareastfontfamily: 新細明體; msofareastlanguage: ZH-HK; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">à <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;"> unexpected problems <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">2) The curriculum is too new that I don’t really know how it works    <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">3)  The plan may be too ideal for the authentic situation, e.g. time limitation of the lesson, the enthusiasm of the students in the class <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;">  <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msochartype: symbol; msofareastfontfamily: 新細明體; msofareastlanguage: ZH-HK; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">à <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;"> they may not prepare the reading at home <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">4) The book contains some controversial elements like fatal disease and death  <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msochartype: symbol; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">à  some students may have encountered <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;">with those hard situation and moments before  <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 10.5pt; msochartype: symbol; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">à  have to be alert and aware of the emotions of each student How many lessons do you usually plan to teach a novel? If finally you find that you actually cannot finish the teaching of the novel in you planned schedule, what will you do? ** END **<span style="font-size: 22pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;"> <span style="font-size: 22pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;"> Sam is going to have public examination soon, he feels very stressful about it and he finds that sometimes he is mad of his parents because they keep asking him questions about his study. To escape from his parents, Sam will not come back to home until the late night every day. Sam has shared his negative feelings with two best friends, Mak and Tim. Mak tells Sam that many teenagers nowadays love taking drugs which enable them to attain happiness and forget all sorrows. Tim tries hard to persuade Sam not to listen to Mak and try to find other ways to help Sam <span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;">
 * Novel Study Presentation – Tuesdays with Morrie **
 * Brief Description  **
 * Main Themes of the book **
 * Reasons for choosing this book **
 * Target Group **
 * In class Activities **
 * Take-home assignment **
 * Anticipated problems **
 * Questions **
 * __<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;"> THE SCENE __**