Unit1-The-Fourth-of-July.ppt

1、Unit 1The Fourth of July,新世纪高等院校英语专业本科系列教材（修订版） 综合教程第五册(第2版) 电子教案,上海外语教育出版社 南京信息工程大学 刘杰海,综合教程5(第2版)电子教案,Learning Objectives Pre-reading Activities Global Reading Detailed Reading Consolidation Activities Further Enhancement,Contents,Contents page,Learning Objectives,Rhetorical skill: elements of nar

2、rative writing Key language I started eating as soon as we were comfortably ensconced in our seats, and did not stop until somewhere after Philadelphia. I remember it was Philadelphia because I was disappointed not to have passed by the Liberty Bell.,Detailed Reading,DR: p4 text,4.My mother had roas

3、ted two chickens and cut them up into dainty bite-size pieces. She packed slices of brown bread and butter, and green pepper and carrot sticks. There were little violently yellow iced cakes with scalloped edges called marigolds, that came from Cushmans Bakery. There was a spice bun and rock-cakes fr

4、om Newtons, the West Indian bakery across Lenox Avenue from St. Marks school, and iced tea in a wrapped mayonnaise jar. There were sweet pickles for us and dill pickles for my father, and peaches with the fuzz still on them, individually wrapped to keep them from bruising. And, for neatness, there w

5、ere piles of napkins and a little tin box with a washcloth dampened with rosewater and glycerine for wiping sticky mouths.,Detailed Reading,DR: p5 text,5.I wanted to eat in the dining car because I had read all about them, but my mother reminded me for the umpteenth time that dining car food always

6、cost too much money and besides, you never could tell whose hands had been playing all over that food, nor where those same hands had been just before. My mother never mentioned that Black people were not allowed into railroad dining cars headed south in 1947. As usual, whatever my mother did not li

7、ke and could not change, she ignored. Perhaps it would go away, deprived of her attention.,Detailed Reading,DR: p6 text,6.I learned later that Phylliss high school senior class trip had been to Washington, but the nuns had given her back her deposit in private, explaining to her that the class, all

8、of whom were white, except Phyllis, would be staying in a hotel where Phyllis would not be happy, meaning, Daddy explained to her, also in private, that they did not rent rooms to Negroes. We still take among-you to Washington, ourselves, my father had avowed, and not just for an overnight in some m

9、easly fleabag hotel.,Detailed Reading,DR: p7 text,7.In Washington D.C., we had one large room with two double beds and an extra cot for me. It was a back-street hotel that belonged to a friend of my fathers who was in real estate, and I spent the whole next day after Mass squinting up at the Lincoln

10、 Memorial where Marian Anderson had sung after the D.A.R. refused to allow her to sing in their auditorium because she was Black. Or because she was Colored, my father said as he told us the story. Except that what he probably said was Negro, because for his times, my father was quite progressive.,D

11、etailed Reading,DR: p8-9 text,8.I was squinting because I was in that silent agony that characterized all of my childhood summers, from the time school let out in June to the end of July, brought about by my dilated and vulnerable eyes exposed to the summer brightness. 9.I viewed Julys through an ag

12、onizing corolla of dazzling whiteness and I always hated the Fourth of July, even before I came to realize the travesty such a celebration was for Black people in this country.,Detailed Reading,DR: p10-11 text,10.My parents did not approve of sunglasses, nor of their expense. 11.I spent the afternoo

13、n squinting up at monuments to freedom and past presidencies and democracy, and wondering why the light and heat were both so much stronger in Washington D.C., than back home in New York City. Even the pavement on the streets was a shade lighter in color than back home.,Detailed Reading,DR: p12-13 t

14、ext,12.Late that Washington afternoon my family and I walked back down Pennsylvania Avenue. We were a proper caravan, mother bright and father brown, the three of us girls step-standards in-between. Moved by our historical surroundings and the heat of early evening, my father decreed yet another tre

15、at. He had a great sense of history, a flair for the quietly dramatic and the sense of specialness of an occasion and a trip. 13.Shall we stop and have a little something to cool off, Lin? ,Detailed Reading,DR: p14-15 text,14.Two blocks away from our hotel, the family stopped for a dish of vanilla i

16、ce cream at a Breyers ice cream and soda fountain. Indoors, the soda fountain was dim and fan-cooled, deliciously relieving to my scorched eyes. 15.Corded and crisp and pinafored, the five of us seated ourselves one by one at the counter. There was I between my mother and father, and my two sisters

17、on the other side of my mother. We settled ourselves along the white mottled marble counter, and when the waitress spoke at first no one understood what she was saying, and so the five of us just sat there.,Detailed Reading,DR: p16-17 text,16.The waitress moved along the line of us closer to my fath

18、er and spoke again. I said I kin give you to take out, but you cant eat here, sorry. Then she dropped her eyes looking very embarrassed, and suddenly we heard what it was she was saying all at the same time, loud and clear. 17.Straight-backed and indignant, one by one, my family and I got down from

19、the counter stools and turned around and marched out of the store, quiet and outraged, as if we had never been Black before. No one would answer my emphatic questions with anything other than a guilty silence. But we hadnt done anything! This wasnt right or fair! Hadnt I written poems about freedom

20、and democracy for all?,Detailed Reading,DR: p18 text,18. My parents wouldnt speak of this injustice, not because they had contributed to it, but because they felt they should have anticipated it and avoided it. This made me even angrier. My fury was not going to be acknowledged by a like fury. Even

21、my two sisters copied my parents pretense that nothing unusual and anti-American had occurred. I was left to write my angry letter to the president of the United States all by myself, although my father did promise I could type it out on the office typewriter next week, after I showed it to him in m

22、y copybook diary.,Detailed Reading,DR: p19 text,Detailed Reading,19.The waitress was white, and the counter was white, and the ice cream I never ate in Washington D.C., that summer I left childhood was white, and the white heat and the white pavement and the white stone monuments of my first Washing

23、ton summer made me sick to my stomach for the whole rest of that trip and it wasnt much of a graduation present after all.,DR: p1 analysis,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 1 Analysis,The first paragraph presents the background information, which tells us the circumstances under which the authors family we

24、re going to take the Washington trip and why.,DR: p2-6 analysis,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 2-6 Analysis,This part mainly tells the readers the preparations made for the trip, in particular, the large amount and variety of food the authors mother had prepared for the family, which actually turned the

25、ir first trip on a passenger train to Washington into a real mobile feast.,DR: p7-17 analysis,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 7-17 Analysis,This part is the core of the whole narration. It can be further divided into two sections:,Paragraphs 7-11,Paragraphs 12-17,The authors mental reaction to the suffoc

26、ating white domination she felt in Washington D.C.,The climax of the narration. It relates their most agonizing experience at an ice cream and soda fountain store.,DR: p18-19 analysis,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 18-19 Analysis,This part presents a brief account of the different effects of the injusti

27、ce on the black family. The writers fury did not seem to be shared by family members, who pretended that nothing unusual or anti-American had ever happened.,DR: p1 question 1,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 1: questions,1. When and where did the writers family go for a visit?,The writers family went to W

28、ashington D.C. at the beginning of the summer when the writer graduated from the eighth grade and her elder sister from high school.,DR: p1 question 2,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 1: questions,2. Why did the family go on a Fourth of July trip?,The writer and her sister had just graduated from school a

29、nd the trip was taken as an event to mark their graduation and regarded as their graduation present. The Fourth of July is the National Day in the USA, the day on which America won independence and freedom. As a way of celebration, most Americans will take trips to various places.,DR: p2 question,De

30、tailed Reading,Paragraph 2: question,Why had the family always gone on the milk train when they used to go to the Connecticut shore?,Because the milk train was cheaper. The fact that the family had always traveled on the cheap milk train implies that the family was rather poor.,DR: p3 question,Detai

31、led Reading,Paragraph 3: question,Why did the writer say that her first trip to Washington D.C. was a mobile feast?,Because the writer started eating as soon as they were ensconced in their seats on the train and she did not stop eating until somewhere after Philadelphia.,DR: p4 question,Paragraph 4

32、: question,Detailed Reading,Why did the writers mother prepare a variety of foods for the trip?,There were probably two reasons. On the one hand, by taking a variety of food with them on the trip, the family members could save some money, for dining car food was too expensive. On the other hand, as

33、black people, they were not allowed into railroad dining cars at that time.,DR: p4 activity,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 4: activity,Give a list of the different foods the writers mother had prepared and packed.,DR: p6 question,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 6: question,Why had the writers elder sister be

34、en prevented from going to Washington D.C. with her high school classmates?,Because she was black and all her classmates were white and they would be staying in a hotel which did not rent rooms to “Negroes”.,DR: p7 question a,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 7: question,Why did the writer spend the whole

35、next day after Mass squinting up at the Lincoln Memorial? And why had Marian Anderson sung at the Lincoln Memorial after D.A.R. refused to allow her to sing in their auditorium because she was black?,Both the writer and Marian Anderson were black. The writer spent the whole next day after Mass squin

36、ting up at the Lincoln Memorial because it was Lincoln, the American President, who liberated the blacks in America,DR: p7 question b,who advocated freedom for the colored and who even sacrificed his life for the emancipation of the black people. Both the writer and Marian Anderson cherished the mem

37、ory of this great man. Marian Anderson had sung at the Lincoln Memorial, also because she wanted to spread Lincolns noble ideas, to show that his noble ideas had not been realized and to call on people to fight against racial discrimination and segregation so as to make Lincolns noble thought come t

38、rue and win liberation and freedom for the black people.,Detailed Reading,DR: p8 question,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 8: question,Why was the writer squinting?,The writer was squinting because she was in that silent agony that characterized all of her childhood summers, from the time school let out i

39、n June to the end of July, brought about by her dilated and vulnerable eyes exposed to the summer brightness. In other words, she was squinting because she was suffering realistically from the dazzling sunlight and mentally from the suffocating white domination.,DR: p10 question a,Detailed Reading,P

40、aragraph 10: question,Why didnt the authors parents approve of sunglasses? Was it just because they were too expensive?,Evidently not just the expense, though her parents were not well off. We all know that wearing sunglasses will make the dazzling light milder. It might be surmised that what her pa

41、rents were really saying was that they wanted their children to realize to the fullest extent the injustice that was inflicted upon the black people.,DR: p10 question b,Detailed Reading,However, such an interpretation does not sit easily with various other aspects of the story. From an alternative p

42、erspective, her Christian parents are reputed to have set strict standards (against which the author was later to rebel) and may well have frowned on sunglasses as suggestive of a sinful vanity.,DR: p11 question,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 11: question,Do you find some symbolic meaning in Paragraph 1

43、1?,Here, most probably, the white light and heat and the white pavement on the streets symbolize the white domination. Actually, the writer was wondering why the white domination or racial discrimination was even stronger in Washington D.C. than back home in New York City.,DR: p12 question,Detailed

44、Reading,Paragraph 12: question,Why did the writers father decree another treat?,Moved by their historical surroundings and the heat of the early evening, her father decreed yet another treat. Also, it was because he had a great sense of history, a flair for the quietly dramatic and a strong sense of

45、 a special occasion and a trip.,DR: p17 question,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 17: question,What can you infer from the authors words as if we had never been Black before? ,As blacks they should have expected this and had no reason to feel shocked and indignant. Discrimination against the blacks had be

46、en a long-established, deep-rooted and widespread practice in his country.,DR: p18-19 question1,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 18: question,How did the writers parents and her two sisters respond to the unfair treatment afterwards?,The writers parents wouldnt speak of the injustice, not because they had

47、 contributed to it, but because they felt they should have anticipated it and avoided it. Neither her parents nor her sisters demonstrated the rage they felt inwardly; instead, they all pretended that nothing unusual and anti-American had occurred.,DR: p18-19 question2,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 19:

48、 question,How did the writer feel after the injustice?,The writer was plunged into extreme exasperation and was going to write a letter of protest to the president of the USA. This profound experience of white domination, racial discrimination and segregation so deeply affected the writer that she f

49、elt sick to her stomach for the rest of that trip. She didnt think that is was much of a graduation present after all.,DR-LGPT-1-be supposed to do,Detailed Reading,suppose vt. assume, believe, accept as true; pretend that sth. is true; take sth. as a fact,I dont suppose for a minute that he will agr

50、ee. Everyone supposes him to be poor, but he is in fact very wealthy.,be supposed to do sth: be expected or required to do sth.,Am I supposed to clean all the rooms or just this one? You are not supposed to play football in the classroom.,e.g.,e.g.,DR-LGPT-2-fabled,Detailed Reading,fabled adj. famou

51、s in fables; legendary,There are some fabled cities in that small country. The deserted house is fabled to have been inhabited by ghosts.,“fabled and famous”,an example of alliteration (头韵),e.g.,DR-LGPT-3- milk train,Detailed Reading,milk train a train that chiefly carries milk, usually very early i

52、n the morning,DR-LGPT- Preparations were in the air,Detailed Reading,“Preparations were in the air around our house before school was even over.”, Preparations were being made in our house even before school was closed for the summer vacation.,The feather floated lightly in the air. At that time the

53、re were some rumors in the air.,in the air in the sky; prevalent; gaining currency; not decided, indefinite,Paraphrase,e.g.,DR-LGPT-feast,Detailed Reading,feast n. an unusually large or elaborate meal; (fig.) sth. that pleases the mind or the senses with its richness or variety; a religious festival

54、 celebrated with rejoicing,The food on the table is actually a feast for eyes as well as for palate. The picture is a feast of colors.,e.g.,DR-LGPT-was a mobile feast,Detailed Reading,Actually, my first trip to Washington was a wonderful or elaborate meal that we enjoyed in the chugging train.,“In f

55、act, my first trip to Washington was a mobile feast.”,Indeed, my first trip to Washington was like a very pleasant or very agreeable feast, because I started eating as soon as we were comfortably settled in our seats and did not stop until somewhere after Philadelphia.,Paraphrase,Explanation,DR-LGPT

56、-ensconce,Detailed Reading,ensconce vt. (esp. passive) establish or settle oneself or sb. in a safe and comfortable place,At night in winter, the young couple are happily ensconced by the fire, each reading a good book. We have ensconced ourselves in the most beautiful villa in the South of France.,

57、e.g.,DR-LGPT- dainty,Detailed Reading,dainty adj. (of things) small and pretty; (of people) neat and delicate in build or movement; fastidious esp. about food,The bowls are all made of dainty porcelain. She is a dainty girl, but she is very capable. Mrs. Smith is very dainty about food,e.g.,DR-LGPT-

58、 scallop,Detailed Reading,vt. decorate with a row of curves forming an edge or pattern on pastry, etc.,scallop,They decorated the cake with scalloped edges. His parents had scalloped his birthday cake.,e.g.,DR-LGPT-marigold,Detailed Reading,marigold n. any of various types of a garden plant with ora

59、nge or yellow flowers (金盏花),DR-LGPT- rock-cake,Detailed Reading,rock-cake a small currant cake with a hard rough crust 岩皮饼,DR-LGPT-mayonnaise jar,Detailed Reading,mayonnaise jar a container used to hold thick creamy sauce made of egg-yolks, oil and vinegar, used esp. on cold foods such as salads; dish made with this,DR-LGPT-dill,Detailed Reading,dill n. a herb with scented leaves and seeds used for flavoring pickles (莳萝，小茴香),DR-LGPT-pickles,Detailed Reading,pickle n. food, esp. marinated vegetables, i.e., vegetable