Childhood

Author: Maxim Gorky (Soviet Union)
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: To comprehensively improve the language quality of primary and secondary school students, enhance the modern awareness of language teaching, and vigorously promote new learning methods, the Ministry of Education issued the "Full-Time Compulsory Education Chinese Curriculum Standards" and the "General High School Chinese Curriculum Standards" as core content of the basic education curriculum reform in 2001 and 2003, respectively. The "Chinese Curriculum Standards" serve as the basis for teaching, assessment, and examination question setting, as well as the foundation for national curriculum management and evaluation, reflecting the fundamental requirements of the state for students at different stages in terms of knowledge, skills, processes, and methods. Compared to the original "Chinese Teaching Syllabus" for primary and secondary schools, the "Chinese Curriculum Standards" have made significant revisions to the specific works of extracurricular reading prescribed in the original syllabus and have stipulated the total amount of reading required for students at different stages, urging primary and secondary school students to read widely. To this end, we have compiled and published this series of "New Curriculum Standards Chinese Reading Series," with all the titles designated by the new standards. To assist students in reading, we have included an introductory article before each classic, providing an in-depth yet accessible introduction to the relevant information about the book. Childhood is the th book in Gorky's autobiographical trilogy, covering the life fragments of Gorky's childhood from the age of three to ten. The character of Alyosha in Childhood represents the new generation. "Undoubtedly, from this soil, vivid, healthy, and creative things will still triumphantly grow, things that embody kindness—human kindness—and these inspire in us the irreplaceable hope that the awakening of a bright and humane life is inevitable." Although the entire work depicts a painful past, it is imbued with a bright and optimistic spirit.