The 2020 Senior High School Entrance Examination is approaching. In this intense and critical moment, it is worth pondering over how to let students make a breakthrough in the last 30 days. In particular, history, morality and the rule of law are two subjects that need more attention. It required certain methods to guide students concerning how to let students quickly find the answers they need from numerous books in a limited time. Therefore, Anqing Foreign Language School specially carried out the special lecture of ‘Embracing the Dream and Aiming at the Senior High School Entrance Examination’.
To start with, on the afternoon of June 9th, Anqing Foreign Language School specially invited Chu Hongling, a famous teacher and academic leader in history from Anqing, to give the 9th grade students a pre-exam sprint lecture with the theme of ‘Get Ready and Achieve Immediate Victory’. Chu Hongling systemically and comprehensively introduced the characteristics of history in the Senior High School Entrance Exam and analyzed the history test of the Senior High School Entrance Examination in Anhui Province from three aspects: knowledge system, analysis of various types of questions, and how to interpret the questions. In the meantime, taking the exam questions of 2019 as the template and the course standard as the outline, this paper makes a targeted conclusion and summary, and constructively predicts the proposition orientation and hot issues of the 2020 Senior High School Entrance Examination. By sorting out the knowledge system, the students have the overall framework blueprint cognition of the history discipline. Also, the interpretation of various types of questions enables students to further understand the answering skills and achieve the effect of understanding by analogy; What’s more, the explanation of how to solve the problems makes it easier and more convenient for students to find a breakthrough.
In addition, on the afternoon of 10th June, teacher Xu Lihong, a top teacher and leader of ethics and rule of law teaching and research group, gave a lecture with the theme of ‘Clear Away the Clouds and See the Sun and Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining’, which mainly focused on two major aspects of ‘Studying the Past Exam Paper -- Exploring the Proposition Rule’ and ‘Hot Topic Analysis, Problem-Solving Skills’. Evidently, the search for rules makes students have rules to follow and the interpretation of skills, especially the interpretation of classification skills, enables students to master the wonderful way to solve problems so that students are enlightened on the standardization and accuracy of the answers.
In this final sprint stage, on the one hand, students need to master knowledge. On the other hand, they need spiritual encouragement and promotion. Therefore, on the afternoon of 11th June, Director Li Ping with the Junior High Department set up an inspirational conference for students from Grade 12 with the theme of ‘Thirty Days of Hard Work, Concentrating on the Senior High School Entrance Examination’. During the conference, Director Li Ping started from the fact that students should learn to sort out knowledge and encouraged students to constantly surpass themselves and be different from themselves. Meanwhile, Director Li Ping offered encouragement and help to students from many aspects, such as how to set clear objectives, how to succeed and how to keep up with others. Furthermore, Director Li Ping played the brilliant videos of all previous graduates from Anqing Foreign Language School to share successful experience, gradually edify students and make them naturally develop admiration for their seniors so as to turn the admiration into the motivation for the Senior High School Entrance Examination. Throughout the whole seminar, students are in high spirits and high morale, achieving the best effect of concentrating on the Senior High School Entrance Examination.
Later on, this informative event came to a close in the warm applause of the students. The teachers' unconventional professional explanation not only let the students master the problem solving methods, but also built up the confidence of the students in the Senior High School Entrance Exam. More remarkably, the conference let students understand how to face the Senior High School Entrance Examination with appropriate mentality and strategy in the last 30 days.
To sum up, knowledge is power, method is guidance, and encouragement is motivation. Only in this way will students be able to avoid panic when they are in trouble, be more careful when they come across easy problems and win the Senior High School Entrance Exam.