新视野大学英语第4册PPT课件4-8

1、 go over the preview, the pre-reading questions and the title of the text before listening to the summary of the story and anticipate what we are going to read. eatonville: it is a small community of great significance to african-american history and culture. located just north of orlando, florida b

2、etween winter park and maitland, it is historically recognized as the first incorporated african-american municipality in the united states and one of the oldest surviving african communities in the u.s. following the civil war, “free” africans settling in the area worked primarily as farm hands cle

3、aring land or helping in the construction of nearby maitland, a white township. eatonville is culturally important for its renowned native daughter, zora neale hurston (c.f. note 3 below), author, anthropologist and folklorist. her words captured forever the culture of the community and painted an i

4、mage of an environment typical of the rural southern working-class african-american. each january, eatonville plays host to the zora neale hurston festival of the arts and humanities. in addition to zora neale hurston, other notable residents of eatonville include hall of fame football player, deaco

5、n jones and dr. benjamin perry, president of florida a&m university. orlando: it is the fifth-ranking u.s. destination of overseas travelers after san francisco, miami, los angeles and new york city and it claims the second highest number of hotel rooms in the u.s., lagging just behind las vegas in

6、the bedroom stakes. the city has also established itself as part of floridas high-tech corridor, boasting not only the space technology industries focused on the florida space coast, but a healthy dose of bits and bytes makers as well. there wasnt much to orlando until walt disney started buying up

7、property at the citys southwestern edge in the 1960s and the property he bought became disney world in 1971. since then, waterslides, roller coasters, fairy tale palaces and costumed characters have made disney world one of the worlds most visited tourist attractions. zora neale hurston (18911960):

8、american writer, folklorist and anthropologist. born in eatonville, florida, hurston was educated at howard university, at barnard college, and at columbia university, where she studied under german-american anthropologist franz boas. eatonville was the first incorporated all-black town in the unite

9、d states, and hurston returned there after college for anthropological field study that influenced her later output in fiction as well as in folklore. hurston also collected folklore in jamaica, haiti, bermuda, and honduras. mules and men (1935), one of her best-known folklore collections, was based

10、 on her field research in the american south. tell my horse (1938) described folk customs in haiti and jamaica. as a fiction writer, hurston is noted for her metaphorical language, her story-telling abilities, and her interest in and celebration of southern black culture in the united states. some o

11、f her earliest work was published in the small magazine fire!, which hurston, along with notable writers such as langston hughes and wallace thurman, produced in 1926. her best-known novel is their eyes were watching god, in which she tracked a southern black womans search, over 25 years and 3 marri

12、ages, for her true identity and a community in which she can develop that identity. hurstons prolific literary output also includes such novels as jonahs gourd vine and seraph on the suwanee, short stories, plays, journal articles, and an autobiography, dust tracks on a road. hurstons work was not p

13、olitical, but her characters use of dialect, her manner of portraying black culture, and her conservatism created controversy within the black community. throughout her career she addressed issues of race and gender, often relating them to the search for freedom. in her later years hurston experienc

14、ed health problems, and she died impoverished and unrecognized by the literary community. her writings, however, were rediscovered in the 1970s by a new generation of black writers, notably alice walker, and many of hurstons works were republished. in 1995 a two-volume set of her writings, some prev

15、iously unpublished, was released. jacksonville: it is 134 miles northeast of orlando, florida. once infamous for its smelly paper mills, it is now one of the souths insurance and banking capitals. although jacksonville claims to be the capital of floridas historic “first coast”, the city dates its b

16、eginnings from an early-1800s settlement named cowford, because cattle crossed the st. johns river here. cowford changed its name to jacksonville in 1822 to honor general andrew jackson, the provisional governor who forced spain to cede florida to the united states 2 years earlier. the civil war: th

17、e american civil war was the only war fought on american soil by americans. 3 million fought and 600,000 died. it was fought in the united states of america between the northern states, popularly referred to as the “union”, and the seceding southern states (in the u.s., the south), calling themselve

18、s the confederate states of america or the “confederacy” between 1861 and 1865. there is considerable debate about causes that may have motivated the states to war, such as states rights with respect to the federal government, taxation, and imbalance of trade. but there is no question that the salie

19、nt issue in the minds of the public and popular press of the time, and the histories written since, was the issue of slavery. slavery had been abolished in most northern states, but was legal and important to the economy of the confederacy, which depended on cheap agricultural labor. the union was l

20、ed by president abraham lincoln and the confederacy by president jefferson davis. significant southern military leaders included robert e. lee, thomas stonewall jackson, james longstreet, and p.g.t. beauregard. northern leaders included ulysses grant, william tecumseh sherman, and george meade. it s

21、tarted with lincolns victory in the presidential election of 1860, which made south carolinas secession from the union a foregone conclusion. the state had long been waiting for an event that would unite the south against the antislavery forces. once the election returns were certain, a special sout

22、h carolina convention declared “that the union now subsisting between south carolina and other states under the name of the united states of america is hereby dissolved.” by february 1, 1861, six more southern states had seceded. on february 7, the seven states adopted a provisional constitution for

23、 the confederate states of america. the remaining southern states as yet remained in the union. less than a month later, on march 4, 1861, abraham lincoln was sworn in as president of the united states. in his inaugural address, he refused to recognize the secession, considering it “legally void”. h

24、is speech closed with a plea for restoration of the bonds of union. but the south turned deaf ears, and on april 12, guns opened fire on the federal troops stationed at fort sumter in the charleston, south carolina harbor. the war ended in 1865 with the surrender of confederate forces. general lee s

25、urrendered his army of northern virginia on 9 april 1865 at appomattox court house. the civil war ended with the emancipation of all slaves held in the confederate states. slaves were not freed in the remaining states until the passage of the thirteenth amendment to the constitution by 3/4 of the st

26、ates, which did not occur until december of 1865, 8 months after the end of the war. a great deal of ill will among the southern survivors resulted from the total warfare practiced during the war by the union armies and the “reconstruction” program forced on the former confederacy by the union victo

27、rs. read the sentences carefully and guess the meaning of the italicized term in each sentence according to the context and your own experiences. she propped herself against the cold, damp wall with the baby in one hand and a bottle of gin in the other. he lay, propped up by pillows, his face pale a

28、nd eyes dull. the organization had continually opposed any change and had had little understanding of the industrialization process up to that time. 靠在靠在靠着靠着直到那时直到那时 my study is the perfect place for an author, especially if he doesnt object to being occasionally peered at through the windows by cur

29、ious visitors. these points have been mentioned in passing in the previous class, but they are summarized here for the sake of convenience and for added emphasis. 凝视凝视顺便顺便 yesterdays meeting resumed talks broken off 8 years ago; this event has been taken as a new start in the relationship between th

30、e two countries. your behavior is extremely important in that it conveys your attitude much more effectively and directly than the words you use. 中断中断因为，在于因为，在于 but talent can be developed and trained and provide a sound basis for you to give of the best inside you. even when other people around us do things we disapprove of, we dont have to laugh at them. although they belonged to different generations, they shared many thoughts in common. 展现展现不赞同不赞同属于属于 this time