上外泛读教程 Unit_6.

Difficulties
1 . saying farewell to hometown 2.abandon old ties and familiar 3 .living in strange land 4 .collide with unaccustomed problem 5. learning to understand alienand alienlanguages 6 .managing to survive in unfamiliar environment.

THE PURITANS
The Puritans were a group of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries, including, English Calvinists. Puritanism in this sense was founded by some Marian exiles from the clergy shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1558, as an activist movement within the Church of England. In modern times, the word 'puritan' is often used to mean 'against pleasure'.
Text Analysis

Part I . Making a decision to immigrant to American is very difficult for people and the life of immigrant is not easy. Part II Three reasons why people to immigrant. Part III The effects of immigrants for American.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

(May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

Events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the African American Civil Rights Movement and early stages of the Vietnam War.

Three reasons

1 . religious [persecution ] 2 . political oppression【 liberty , safship[ riches , poverty ,be sold and bought ] 4.other various reasons
Kennedy
defeated then Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election. He was the second-youngest President (after Theodore Roosevelt), the first 20th Century born President, and the youngest elected to the office, at the age of 43. Kennedy is the only Catholic and the first Irish American president, and is the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize(普利策 奖).

PILGRIM
In
the United States the word "Pilgrims" usually refers to the English settlers of New England, who celebrated the "First Thanksgiving" with the Native Americans in 1621. The Pilgrims, who celebrated the first thanksgiving in America, were fleeing religious persecution in their native England.
They Came
Ⅲ BACKGROUND INFORMATION
A Nation of

Immigrants
The book was originally written by Kennedy in 1958, while he was still a senator. It was written as part of the Anti-Defamation League's series entitled the One Nation Library. Subsequently, after gaining the presidency, he called on Congress to undertake a full reevaluation of immigration law; and he began to revise the book for further publication.


The book contains a short history of immigration in the United States beginning in colonial America, an analysis of the importance immigration has played in American history, and John F. Kennedy's proposals for the liberalization of immigration law. In August 1963, excerpts of the 1958 pamphlet were published in the New York Times Magazine. He was assassinated before completing the revision, but the book was nevertheless posthumously published in 1964 with an introduction by his brother, then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

EFFECTS
1. they helped give America the extraordinary social mobility which is the essence of an open society. 2 .making American enconomic more energetic becuase immigrants are more independent.
SHAKERS

Members of a Christian religious group in the US which now has very few members .Shakers live simple lives, free of many material possessions, and do not have sexual relations(震颤派教徒 ,<术语>美国一个成员极少的 基督教团体，生活俭俭朴且禁欲)
1 commitment: the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action; responsibility 2 odds: the chances that something will happen. E.g. If you flip a coin, the odds are 50-50 you'll get heads. 3. Anti-Semitism: the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people 4dissent: disagreement assent: express agreement 5 successive: for things (or people) that follow each other in time Synonyms: consecutive, sequent, sequential 6 creed: any system of principles or beliefs 8 enterprise: a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness)

WORD PRETEST
Ⅰ. QUESTIONS FOR SKIMMING:

1. What are the major factors for the mass migrations to American? 2.Among these facors, which one has been the most complex?
Kennedy
was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the crime but was shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby before any trial. The FBI, the Warren Commission, and the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded that Oswald was the assassin for the probability of conspiracy based on disputed acoustic evidence. Today, Kennedy continues to rank highly in public opinion ratings of former U.S. presidents.
公谊会教徒贵格会教徒教友会教徒基督教的教派既无任何正是仪式又无固定教义其信条为强烈反对暴力与战争shakers?membersofachristianreligiousgroupintheuswhichnowhasveryfewmembers
UNIT 6
Immigrants
TEXT ONE
Why
QUAKER

Member of the Society of Friends, a religious sect that worships Christ without any formal ceremony stated creed and is strongly opposed to violence and war.(公谊会教徒、贵格 会教徒、教友会教徒，基督教的教派，既无任何正 是仪式又无固定教义，其信条为强烈反对暴力与战 争)