The Online Reading Day with the Theme of “Enjoying Reading in the Beautiful April” Opened Successfully - Campus Focus

The Online Reading Day with the Theme of “Enjoying Reading in the Beautiful April” Opened Successfully
Click: Post Date:2020-09-28 08:25:32 Event Date:2020-09-28 08:25:32

It is the high time to enjoy spring in the fragrant April with flowers in full bloom. In the afternoon of April 23^rd,the event about the Online Reading Day with the theme of “Enjoying Reading in the Beautiful April”, jointly organized by the High School Attached to NWNU, Readers Culture Travel Co., LTD and the Education Bureau of An Ning District, Lanzhou City, was held in the International Conference Center of the High School Attached to NWNU. Different from the events held in the previous years, the event of this year was held online because of the Covid-19 epidemic.

The event was presided over by Sun Xiaochun, Vice-principal of the High School Attached to NWNU and Liu Guocai, the Secretary of Party Committee and Vice-principal of the High School Attached to NWNU, also attended the opening ceremony and delivered an addressing speech, calling on teachers and students to read books in their spare time which are beneficial to enriching people’s knowledge as well as expanding their inner horizons. What’s more, the Secretary Liu shared some useful reading methods with students.
On the site, the Readers Culture Travel Co., LTD donated a batch of journals named Readers and series of books to the high school and awarded the high school the title “2019 Outstanding Organization Unit of Practice Education in Research and Learning” on behalf of the National Alliance of Culture and Travel Publishing Industries.

In the online event, various reading methods adopted by the high school students, such as the usage of mind maps, coping while reading and the creation of lyrics, were also shared by a feature film jointly shot by the Information and resources Center and the library of the high school as well as the Readers Culture Travel Co., LTD. Moreover, the students also shared their reflections and thoughts after reading some literature works, such as Border Town, A Dream of Red Mansions, The Path of Beauty, The Art of Beauty, The Plague and many others. Li Jing, a teacher from Chinese language and literature teaching and research group put forward several suggestions to the students for their reading, including reading more classic works, underlining the text and making some signs while reading, doing some research work while reading and doing some intensive reading. Since the launching of many reading activities like”Campus Filled With Book Fragrance” and “Reading, a Habit for Everyone”, the high school has continuously invested various resources and expanded much more channels for the acquisition of information to guide the students to change their reading attitude from being passive to active, which can provide a support for big data analysis on the formation of reading habits of students and teachers as well as on the enhancement of reading literacy.
Han Gaonian, Doctoral Supervisor and Vice-president of Northwest Normal University was also invited as a special guest to give a lecture titled Stand Up for Chuang tzu. He shared with the teachers and students his ideas about Chuang tzu in a simple way, thinking that Chuang tzu is suitable for young people to read because many wonderful articles in Chuang tzu reveal some valuable values on life and science, such as youth, regardless of one’s personal gain or loss, and keeping in harmony with nature. That’s the reason why many articles selected from Chuang tzu have been added in the textbooks for high school students.

The event was favorably remarked by the teachers and students present and the whole process would be played on the school’s CloudClassroom platform after being videoed.