高级英语 UNIT 4 背景资料 African American
高级英语 第四单元
The Domestication of Animals动物的驯化The domestication of wild species led directly to denser human populations by yielding more food than the hunter-gatherer lifestyle could provide. In societies that possessed domestic animals, livestock helped to feed more people by providing meat, milk and fertilizer, and by pulling plows. Large domestic animals became the societies’ main source of animal protein, replacing wild game, and they also furnished wool, leather, and land transport. Humans have domesticated only a few species of large animals, with “large” defined as those weighing over 100 pounds (45 kilograms). Fourteen such species were domesticated before the twentieth century, all of them terrestrial mammals and herbivores. The five most import of these are sheep, goats, pigs, horses, and cattle or oxen.野生物种的驯化直接导致了人类种群密度的增加，比狩猎采集者的生活方式提供了更多的食物。
高中英语 Module 4 Music Born in America课件 外研版选修
Blues Despite the end of slavery，African Americans still remained
in poverty even in the 1900s.Out of this suffering arose an
African-American music form known as the blues.Popular blues topics include sex ， drinking ， railroads ， poverty ， labor and
danced to and it placed a heavier emphasis on instruments.Jazz
music developed during a time when African Americans were more concerned with being accepted by American culture than
hop.Unlike earlier African-American music forms，hip hop places a heavy emphasis on both rhyming lyrics and beats.Like the
blues，it is a form of storytelling and it resembles jazz in its more
includes the African “call-and-response” pattern.
Hip hop Many elements of the blues，jazz and gospel have found their
way into the newer forms of African-American music such as hip
高级英语Unit4AliceWalker生平
Unit 4Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, the eighth and last child of Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker, who were sharecroppers. ['ʃeə,krɔpə] <美>佃农When Alice Walker was years old, she lost sight of one eye when one of her older brothers shot her with a BB gunby accident. In high school, Alice Walker was[,vælidik'tɔ:riən]致辞别辞者,辞别演说者of her,外加a"rehabilitation.[,ri:hə,bɪlɪ'teɪʃən]复兴scholarship" made it possible for her to go to Spelman, a college for black women in Atlanta, Georgia. After spending two years at Spelman, she transferred to SarahLawrenceCollege in New York, and during her junior year traveled to Africaas an exchange student. She received her bachelor of arts degreefrom SarahLawrenceCollege in 1965.After finishing college, Walker lived for a short time in New York, then from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s,she lived in Tougaloo, Mississippi, during which time she had a daughter, Rebecca, in 1969. Alice Walker was active in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's, and in the 1990's she is still an involved activist. She has spoken for the women's movement,the anti-apartheid['æntiə'pɑ:θaid]反种族隔离的movement, for the anti-nuclear movement, and so on.Alice Walker started her own publishing company, Wild Trees Press, in 1984. She currently resides in Northern Californiawith her dog, Marley.She receivedthe Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for The Color Purple.Among her numerous awards and honors are the Lillian Smith Award from theNational Endowment[en'daʊmənt](经常的)资助,捐助;捐助的财物等for the Arts, the Rosenthal['rəuzəntɑ:l](陶瓷)罗森塔尔制造的Award from the National Institute of Arts & Letters, a nomination for the National Book Award, a Radcliffe['rædklif]拉德克利夫(姓氏)Institute Fellowship, a Merrill Fellowship, a Guggenheim ['ɡuɡənhaim]格瓦拉的追随者Fellowship, and the Front Page Award for Best Magazine Criticism from the Newswoman's Club of New York. She also has received the Townsend Prize and a Lyndhurst Prize.紫色?获得普利策文学奖，使艾丽丝·沃克声名鹊起，成为美国历史上第一位获此殊荣的黑人女作家。
高级英语第一册_Unit_4_Everyday_Use_for_Your_Grandmama
Unit 4 Everyday Use for your grandmamaAlice Walker 1.) About the authorAlice Walker (1944- ), poet, novelist and essayist, was born into a poor rural family in Eatonton, Georgia. Her parents made a living by growing cotton. When she went to Sarah Lawren ce College in the early 60’s, the civil rights movement was in full swing. She was actively involved in the movement and upon graduation worked in Mississippi, center of the civil rights activities. After experiencing the political movement and as a case worker for the New York City welfare department, she became a teacher of creative writing and black literature, lecturing at Jackson State College, Tougaloo College, Wellesley, Yale and University of California at Berkeley. Her writing career began with the publication of a volume of poetry in 1968, which was followed by a number of novels, short stories, critical essays and more poetry. Now she is regarded as one of the most prominent writers in American literature and a most forceful representative of wome n’s literature and black literature.Her works include The Thrid Life Grange Copeland (1970), Meridian (1976), a volume of poetry Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973), a collection of short stories In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973) and a recent novel The Temple of My Familiar (1989). Her most significant novel is The Purple, published in 1982, which won all the three major book awards in America –the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The novel was an instant bestseller and made into an equally successful movie in 1985, directed by Spielberg and starring Whoopi Goldberg.Alice Walker is at her best when portraying people living in the rural areas where the writer was born and grew up. As a black writer, Walker is particularly interested in examining the relationships among the blacks themselves.2.) “Everyday Use”(1973) is included in the Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, 2nd Edition, 1981. “Everyday Use”, one of the best-written short stories by Alice Walker, describes three women. The mother is a working woman without much education, but not without intelligence or perception. The two daughters form a sharp contrast in every conceivable way: appearance, character, personal experiences, etc. The story reaches its climax at the moment when Dee, the elder daughter, wants the old quilts only to e refused flatly by the mother, who intends to give them to Maggie, the younger one. The old quilts, made from pieces of clothes worn by grand and great grand parents and stitched by Grandma’s hand, are clearly a symbol of the cultural heritage of the black people. Their different feelings about the quilts reveal their different attitudes towards their heritage as blacks.The theme:The main theme in the story concerns the character’s connections to their ancestral roots.Dee Johnson believes that she is affirming her African heritage by changing her name, her mannerisms,and her appearance, even though her family has lived in the U.S. for several generations.The historical present:描述历史事件的现在时，使事件更生动、更真实The historcal present(some times dramatic present) refers to the employment of the present tense when narrating past events. It is used in fiction, for “hot news” (as in headlines), and in everyday conversation, it is partical any common with “verbs of communication” such as tell,write,etc.I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house. 我就在这院子里等候她的到来。
高级英语第四课-Everyday-Use
About Alice Walker
She was born into a poor rural family in Georgia, as the eighth child of sharecropper 交租耕种农 parents. She grew up in the midst of violent racism and poverty which influence her later writings.
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About Alice Walker
After her junior year at the college, she won a scholarship as an exchange student to Uganda, and Kenya. This most probably helped her to understand the African culture.
1. Alice Walker’s Early Life
Date of Birth: February 9, 1944
Birthplace: Eatonton, Georgia
Parents:
Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker,
who were sharecroppers
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About ቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱlice Walker
Her works: The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970); Meridian (1976); In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women
(1973); The Temple of My Familiar (1989); The Color Purple (1982)
高一英语必修4课文+翻译
Unit1A STUDENT OF AFRICAN WILDLIFEIt is 5:45 am and the sun is just rising over Gombe National Park in East Africa. Following Jane's way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest. Jane has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they behave like humans. Watching a family of chimps wake up is our first activity of the day. This means going back to the place where we left the family sleeping in a tree the night before. Everybody sits and waits in the shade of the trees while the family begins to wake up and move off. Then we follow as they wander into the forest. Most of the time, chimps either feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their family. Jane warns us that our group is going to be very tired and dirty by the afternoon and she is right. However, the evening makes it all worthwhile. We watch the mother chimp and her babies play in the tree. Then we see them go to sleep together in their nest for the night. We realize that the bond between members of a chimp family is as strong as in a human family.Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp behaviour. She spent years observing and recording their daily activities. Since her childhood she had wanted to work with animals in their own environment. However, this was not easy. When she first arrived in Gombe in 1960, it was unusual for a woman to live in the forest. Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months was she allowed to begin her project. Her work changed the way people think about chimps. For example, one important thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat meat. Until then everyone had thought chimps ate only fruit and nuts. She actually observed chimps as a group hunting a monkey and then eating it. She also discovered how chimps communicate with each other, and her study of their body language helped her work out their social system.For forty years Jane Goodall has been outspoken about making the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals. She has argued that wild animals should be left in the wild and not used for entertainment or advertisements. She has helped to set up special places where they can live safely. She is leading a busy life but she says: "Once I stop, it all comes crowding in and I remember the chimps in laboratories. It's terrible. It affects me when I watch the wild chimps. I say to myself, 'Aren't they lucky?" And then I think about small chimps in cages though they have done nothing wrong. Once you have seen that you can never forget ..."She has achieved everything she wanted to do: working with animals in their own environment, gaining a doctor's degree and showing that women can live in the forest as men can. She inspires those who want to cheer the achievements of women.非洲野生动物研究者清晨5点45分，太阳刚从东非的贡贝国家公园的上空升起，我们一行人准备按照简研究黑猩猩的方法去森林里拜访它们。
考试提纲 高级英语Lesson 4 Everyday use
Unit 4 Everyday use for your grandmammaMama (Ms Johnson) The narrator of the story.She is a middle-aged or older African-American woman living with her younger daughter, Maggie.Although poor, she is strong and independent, and takes great pride in her way of life.She is over weight, and built more like a man than a woman. She has strong hands that are worn from a lifetime of work.MaggieDee’s sister who was badly burned by a fire when she was young.She has low self-confidence and becomes uncomfortable when Dee is around.Maggie contrasts Dee by showing a special regard for her immediate family.DeeMrs. Johnson’s older daughter.She is attractive, sophisticated, and well-educated.She is also very selfish, bold, and overly confident.When she returns home, she insists her family calls her Wangero because she wants to be a bigger part of her culture. The only reason she wants this is because it’s suddenly the new trend.I.Words, Phrases and sentencesFine: thin, in small particlesNot handsome or beautiful: plain, unattractive. (Never say a woman or a girl is ugly. Say she is plain or homely.)feelings of respect and slight fear; feelings of being very impressed by sth/sb:The world has satisfied her sister’s every desire.Her sister has a firm control of life.1 (especially BrE) liking or good at sport: I’m not very sporty.2 (of clothes) bright, attractive and informal; looking suitable for wearing for sports: a sporty cotton top3 (of cars) fast and elegant: a sporty MercedesJC would find it very hard to talk as eloquently and humorously as me.Quick: receiving and/or responding with speed and sensitivity; keenWitty: very clever and humorousSidle v.intr.to walk towards something or someone slowly and quietly, as if you do not want to be noticed.a slow walk in which you take small steps and do not lift your feet completely off the ground:adj. dark and dirty:a dingy room / hotel dingy curtains / clothesneed to know.1 (disapproving) imagining or pretending things to be different or more exciting than they really are; fantasy.She tried to brainwash us with fantasies, and tortured us with a lot of useless knowledge.Wash, river, burn: metaphorwe seemed about to understand.Shove: to push sb/sth in a rough way; jostleDimwit: stupid person, simpletonDid Dee really want to ‘educate’ her family?无带浅口女鞋especially: a close-fitting woman's dress shoe with a moderate to high heelStare down:To cause to waver or give in by or as if by staringShe was determined to confront and to overcome any difficulty with her effort.[v] to move with small quick movements: Her eyelids flickered as she slept.Maggie is very cheerful when reading to me, but she often makes mistakes because she cannot see the words properly.Compare: …but can’t read well.Hook: hitSoothing: calming, comfortingFurtive: behaving as if you want to keep something secret [= secretive]P15:cute: very pretty or attractive; sexually attractiveShape: The contour of a person's body; the figureP15:scald verb [vn] to burn yourself or part of your body with very hot liquid or steam: Be careful not to scald yourself with the steam.Scalding adj.Causing a burning sensation, as from contact with hot liquid.Harshly critical or denunciatory; scathing: a scalding review of the playCheap and showy; gaudy. 俗艳的：低劣的或华而不实的；庸俗而华丽的Giving a momentary or superficial impression of brilliance 闪烁的，炫耀的：给人以短暂或表面印象的光彩或才华的(re)compose oneself: To make oneself calm down1. Solidly built; sturdy.2. Chubby; plump.1. to twist and turn your body or part of it with quick shortmovements Synonym wiggle2. to move somewhere by twisting and turning your body or part of it Synonym squirmstout: bulky in body; FATI am so heavy that I have to push myself up from the chair and I need to adjust my position before standing up.[v] to bend low and/or move backwards because you are frightened:go through the motions: to do something because you are expected to do it and not because you want to (often in continuous tenses). 装样子，走过场Lacking strength or firmness; weak or spiritless:To admit failure and stop trying; to stop hoping that somebody/ something will change or improve.P35 "There I was not," I said, “before 'Dicie'back?"A witty retortCrop up : to happen or appear unexpectedly: Her name keeps cropping up in conversation.also trip up [intransitive] to hit something with your foot by accident so that you fall or almost fall [= stumble]P45 She talked a blue streak over the sweet potatoes.to talk very much and very rapidly.have?"verb [vn] ~ A (from B)| ~ B (into A) to form a piece of wood, etc. into a particular shape by cutting small pieces from it:P53 "I can use the churn top as a centerpiece for the alcove table,”a: a small recessed section of a room : NOOKb: an arched opening (as in a wall) : NICHEDent, cavityrifle (through) something to search quickly through something in order to find or steal something[C] a small piece of sth, especially paper, cloth, etc. shred, bitto hold sb/sth tightly grip:[vn] [usually passive] (informal) to ask sb a question that is too difficult for them to answer or give them a problem that they cannot solve; baffle:[intransitive, transitive] to make an unpleasant noise by rubbing against a hard surface; to make something do this1 rather stupid1. Shamefaced or guilty.2. Downcast; intimidated.A person's lot or fateP75to take sth quickly and often rudely or roughly grab:to put something down in a careless or untidy wayto be successful in lifeII.Figures of Speech:1.Have you ever seen a lame animal,…? That is the way my Maggie walks.2.She was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts.3.It is black as night and around the edges are two long pigtails that rope about like small lizards disappearingbehind her ears.4.She gasped like a bee had stung her.5.When I looked at her like that something hit me in the top of my head and ran down to the soles of my feet.。
高级英语unit4-everyday-use-知识点梳理
Unit 4 Everyday use for your grandmammaWhat is a plot?If an author writes, "The king died and then the queen died," there is no plot for a story. But by writing, "The king d and then the queen died of grief," the writer has provided a plot line for a story.A plot is a causal sequence of events, the "why" for the things that happen in the story. The plot draws the reader the character's lives and helps the reader understand the choices that the characters make.The Structure of a plot1.Exposition - introduction of themain characters and setting2.Rising Action - one (or more)characters in crisis3.Climax - point of highest emotion;turning point4.Falling Action - resolution ofcharacter’s crisis5.Denouement (outcome) - “untyingof plot treads”; resolutionNarration NarratorFirst-person narration; third-person narrationNarrator ≠ authorThe titleThe meaning of the title requires the reader to read deeper within the short story. The phraseabout the question whether or not heritage should be preserved and displayed or integrated into everyday life. “Everyday Use” pertains not only to the quilt, but more so to people's culture and heritage and how they choo it.The themeThe main theme in the story concerns the characters’ connections to their ancestral roots.Dee Johnson b elieves t hat she is affirming her African h eritage b y changing h er name, her mannerisms, and her appearance, even though her family has lived in the United States for several generations.The themedated by her new image as “Wangero”. Their own connection Maggie and Mrs. Johnson are confused and intimiheritage rest on their memories of their mothers and grandmothers; they prefer to remember them for who they w individuals, not as members of a particular race.Because of their differing viewpoints, they place different values on some old quilts and other objects in the home The backgroundBy the 1960s, f ollowing the success o f civil rights l eaders like M artin L uther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, some A frican Americans began to take pride in their heritage as a way of gaining their esteem, forging a group identity, and cre platform for greater political power.Known as “black pride” or Black Nationalism, these ideas encouraged many young African Americans to le their cul tural ancestry, grow their hair into “Afros”, dress in traditional African clothing, and reject Cultural nationalismCultural n ationalism was founded o n the belief that blacks a nd whites h ave separate v alues, h istories, intellectual traditions and lifestyles and therefore that in reality, there are two separate Americas.Cultural nationalism was often expressed a as a conceptual and aesthetic return to the motherland (rarely an actu return), a recognition of the African r oots that blacks i n America h ad begun to forget as a result o f slavery, b iased education and stereotyped representations in the mass media.nationalism,Ron Karenga, one of the strongest voices in favor of culturalIn his article, "Black Cultural Nationalism,"writes,"Let our art remind us of our distaste for the enemy, our love for each other, and our commitment to the revolutionary struggle that will be fought with the rhythmic reality of a permanent revolution"Cultural nationalism on a visual level was expressed in the same way, by the wearing of brightly colored African c such as dashikis, and the adaptation of the Afro hair style, both symbolic representations of the important relation between Blacks in America and their African roots.Mama (Ms Johnson)The narrator of the story.She is a middle-aged or older African-American woman living with her younger daughter, Maggie.Although poor, she is strong and independent, and takes great pride in her way of life.She is over weight, and built more like a man than a woman. She has strong hands that are worn from a lifetime o work.MaggieDee’s sister who was badly burned by a fire when she was young.She has low self-confidence and becomes uncomfortable when Dee is around.Maggie contrasts Dee by showing a special regard for her immediate family.DeeMrs. Johnson’s older daughter.She is attractive, sophisticated, and well-educated.She is also very selfish, bold, and overly confident.Wangero because she wants to be a bigger part of her culture. When she returns home, she insists her family calls herThe only reason she wants this is because it’s suddenly the new trend.the historical presentThe historical present (sometimes dramatic present) refers to the employment of the present tense when narrating events. i t is used in fiction, for “hot news” (as in headlines), and in everyday c onversation. In conversation, it isgo).tell, write, and s ay (and in colloquial uses,particularly common with “verbs of communication” such asThe historical present has the effect of making past events more vivid.P1: the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavywavy: having regular curvesA wavy line has a series of regular curves along it.Here in the text the word describes the marks in wavy patterns on the clay ground left by the broom.P1: It is like an extended living room.Extended: enlargedP1: When the hard clay is swept cleanA fine-grained, firm earthy material that is plastic when wet and hardens when heated, consisting primarily of hydr silicates of aluminum and widely used in making bricks, tiles, and pottery.粘土，泥土P1: the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular groovesFine: thin, in small particlesGroove nouna long narrow cut in the surface of sth hard:沟、槽Cut a groove 3 cm from the top of the piece of wood.P1: sit and look up into the elm tree榆树P2: homely and ashamed of the burn scarsugly. Say she is plain o r homely.)Not handsome or beautiful: plain, unattractive. (Never say a woman or a girl ishomely furniture)Of a plain and unsophisticated nature: artless, unadorned, unpolished. (homely skills)Of or relating to the family or household: domestic, household. (P2: eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awesuggest the feelings of the person who looks.Look at and w atch d on’ｔTo eye means to look carefully, suspiciously, or thoughtfully, with fear, doubt, envy, desire, etc.P2: eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awenoun [U] feelings of respect and slight fear; feelings of being very impressed by sth/sb:awe and respectHe speaks of her with awe.be / stand in awe of sb/sth to admire sb/sth and be slightly frightened of them/it:While Diana was in awe of her grandfather, she adored her grandmotheramazement, wonderP2: She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her..The world has satisfied her sister’s every desireHer sister has a firm control of life.P3: the child who has "made it" is confrontedTo have made i t: if you make it, you are successful in achieving sth. Difficult, or in s urviving through a very difficult period.I believe I have the talent to make it.You are brave and courageous. You can make it.P3: the child who has "made it" is confrontedthe economic problems confronting the1 (of problems or a difficult situation) to appear and need to be dealt with by sb:country3 to face sb so that they cannot avoid seeing and hearing you, especially in an unfriendly or dangerous situation:Thiswas the first time he had confronted an armed robber.P3: her own mother and father, tottering in weakly from backstage.1. [usually +a dv./ prep.] to walk or move with weak unsteady steps, especially because you are drunk or ill/sick; stag She managed to totter back to her seat.the tottering walls of the castle2 to be weak and seem likely to fall:out大声讲！没人能把你怎么样。
The African-Americans
Structure of the text
• Para.1: Barack Obama won the presidential election and became the first African American president • Para.2-8: The historical development of black people's struggle for social justice paved way for Obama's victory. • Para. 9: Conclusion
Reading ac text and finish the true or false questions on page 73. • key: F T T F T; F T F • 2. Skim the text again and determine the main idea. • Barack Obama's victory is achieved through an excellent, tightly run campaign. • Barack Obama's victory is due to a series of historical struggles of Americans since 1830.
Section A
Lead-in
• Do you know some famous black people? Could you introduce somebody you know to each other?
How much do you know about the following people?
Nelson Mandela （1918-2013）
African-American Literature
Dreams 梦想
--Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams 紧紧抓住梦想， For if dreams die 梦想若是消亡 Life is a broken-winged bird 生命就象鸟儿折了翅膀 That can never fly. 再也不能飞翔 Hold fast to dreams 紧紧抓住梦想， For when dreams go 梦想若是消丧 Life is a barren field 生命就象贫瘠的荒野， Frozen only with snow 雪覆冰封，万物不再生长
“If We Must Die” by Mckay
If we must die, let it not be like hogs 若我们必须牺牲，不要像猪一般死去 Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, 被囚禁在一个不体面的处所， While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs 疯狂而饥饿的狗在我们周围吠叫 Making their mock at our accursed lot; 嘲笑我们不幸的命运；
Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City, was the center of the African American political, cultural, and artistic movement in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Native Son 《土生子》
1• • • Uncle Tom’s Children (New York: Harper, 1938) Native Son (New York: Harper, 1940) The Outsider (New York: Harper, 1953) Savage Holiday (New York: Avon, 1954) The Long Dream (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1958) Eight Men (Cleveland and New York: World, 1961) Lawd Today (New York: Walker, 1963) Rite of Passage (New York: Harper Collins, 1994) A Father’s Law (London: Harper Perennial, 2008)
中学生百科英语1-U4-L2-Blues and Jazz
Unit 4 MusicLesson 2 Blues and JazzPeople from Europe and America brought Africans to America as slaves before and during the nineteenth century. These Africans brought their music with them. After the American Civil War (1861-1865), the African American people in the United States were not slaves. Their African American music became famous. It started in the South, in Louisiana and Mississippi. Then it traveled to the North. This music became the blues and then jazz.Blues and jazz became very popula r in the twentieth century. A person who "sings the blues" feels sad. Usually he or she lost something-a person, or maybe money or a job. Blues songs express sad feelings, sometimes in a funny way. People played the blues first with only one or two instruments, for example, a guitar, a harmonica, or sometimes a piano. Sometimes they sang without any instruments. Some famous blues musicians and singers are Bessie Smith, John Lee Hooker, and BB King, BB King named his guitar “Lucille”.Jazz came soon after blues. Composers added more music musical instruments. Jazz can be happier than the blues and is often faster. Some famous jazz musicians are Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and Wynton Marsalis.Musicians who play blues and jazz change the music to express their feelings. They play the music differently each time. People all over the world still like to listen to blues and jazz.(230 words)➢Read paragraph 1 and answer the following questions:1.When did people from Europe and America brought Africans to America as slaves?2.When did African American music become famous?3.Where did African American music travel?➢Read paragraph 2&3 and fill in the chart.Vocabulary①Put the right cord in each blank. The sentences are from the text.1. This music became _____________ and then ______________.2. People from Europe and America brought Africans to America as _____________ before and during the nineteenth ___________.3. Blues and jazz became very ______________ in the 20th century.4. People played blues first with only one or two _____________, for example, a __________, a ______________ or sometimes a _____________.5. Blues songs _______________ sad feelings, sometimes in a funny way.6. ______________ ______________ more musical instruments②Put the right word in each blank. These are new sentences for words in the text.1. There are one hundred years in a ____________.2. You play the __________ and the ___________ with your hands but not your mouth.3. You play the _________ with your mouth and hands.4. Can you __________ these numbers? 456+142 +862=?5. Some people ___________ their feelings by crying or laughing.6. Mozart ___________ classical music.7. John Lee Hooker sings the _____________, and Wynton Marsalis plays ______________.8. The piano is a musical _____________.9. The dolphin is a __________ animal at an aquarium.10. _____________worked on American farms in the nineteenth century.单词默写:翻译句子:1. 朗读是一种受欢迎的学习英语方式。
高级英语UNIT4背景资料AfricanAmerica
Current situation and challenges
Social discrimination and inequality
Describe significant progress in civil rights, racial discrimination and inequality still exist in some areas of American society, affecting the lives and development of African Americans
AfricanAmerica refers to the percentages of black Africans who were broken to the Americas as slaves during the colonial period, as well as their mixed race percentages
Abolitionist Literature
This literature was produced by those campaigning for the opposition of slavery It's too much to look at the form of pamphlets, speeches, and newspaper articles, and was designed to raise awareness and mobile support
Contemporary African American Literature
This includes a wide range of works, including novels, poetry, plays, and non fiction, that deal with the experiences and challenges facing African Americans today
Unit-4-American-Dream课文翻译
Unit-4-American-Dream课文翻译Unit 4 American Dream美国梦Text AThe American Dream means different things to different people. But for many, particularly immigrants, it means the opportunity to make a better life for themselves. For them the dream is that talent and hard work can take you from log cabin to White House. Tony Trivisonno did not rise quite so high, yet he managed to make his own dream come true.美国梦对不同的人有不同的意义。
但对许多人，尤其是对移民而言，它意味着改善自己生活的机会。
对于他们，美国梦的含义就是才能与勤劳能让你从小木屋走向白宫。
托尼•特里韦索诺并没有爬到那么高，但他成功地使自己的梦想成真。
Tony Trivisonno 'S American Dream托尼•特里韦索诺的美国梦Frederick C. Crawford弗雷德里克•C•克罗弗德1 He came from a rocky farm in Italy, somewhere south of Rome. How or when he got to America, I don't know. But one evening I found him standing in thedriveway, behind my garage. He was about five-foot-seven or eight, and thin. 他来自意大利罗马以南某地———个满地石子的农庄。
外研版高一英语Unit 4 英美文化欣赏
满招损，谦受益。
《尚书》原创不容易，【关注】店铺，不迷路！【导读】查尔斯·狄更斯是19世纪英国批判现实主义小说家代表，是世界上最伟大的作家之一，被后世奉为“召唤人们回到欢笑和仁爱中来的明灯”。
《双城记》是狄更斯所著的一部以法国大革命为背景的长篇历史小说，是世界文学经典名著之一，该小说将巴黎、伦敦两大城市连接起来，围绕着马内特医生一家和以得法热夫妇为首的圣安东尼区展开故事。
ATaleofTwoCities(excerpt)Intostempty.TonsieurDefargetanycustomersandDefargewasoutside,talk ingtoamanintadameDefarge,satinsideteinand,ters，amanofaboutsixtyandayounglady.Defargewentovertospeaktot，suddenlykissedtoutoftupstairs,manystairs，untiltr.Lorryinsurprise.“annow.”“Because.”“I'mafraid，too，”w issManette.r.Lorry.“I amafraidof—myfatadealotofnoiseasr.LorryandLuciewentintotbe.Atanwassittingonawood enseat.akingsstillworking.”“Come，”saidDefarge.“Youyourname.”“Myname？”cametr.Lorrymovedclosertotan.“DrManette，don'tyourememberme，JarvisLorry？”r.Lorry，buttakingshoes.双城记(节选)在巴黎的一个名叫圣安东尼的地方，所有的人都很穷。
街道狭窄肮脏，食品店几乎都是空的。
孩子们的脸已显出老态。
unit 4 America
in decline / on the decline : losing strength; declining He is still one of the world's most popular tennis players, but his game is in decline. As she was getting older, her mental powers were on the decline.
America As A Collage
What is "collage"?
Text Organization
Part One (1-5): Part Two (6-21): Part Three (22-24):
Los Angeles: a good example of such a collage America: in the process of creating a new collage-like civilization There is something in America that act like "glue" to piece different parts together to make the American collage
A Nation of Immigration
it is composed of many nationalities, races, religions, and creeds.
Do you know any popular metaphors for America?
The Great Melting Pot
Sentence to explain:
高级英语 Everyday Use 背景资料
南美 北美 其他
期
期
纪
前
后
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17
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Negro
With the political consciousness that emerged from the political and social ferment of the late 1960s and early 1970s, blacks no longer approved of the term Negro. They believed it had suggestions of a moderate, accommodationism (迁就主义), even ―Uncle Tom―(逆来顺受的美国黑人) connotation. In this period, a growing number of blacks in the United States, particularly African American youth, celebrated their blackness and their historical and cultural ties with the African continent.
(1955-1968)
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Story Background
The short story ―Everyday Use‖, from the collection In Love and Trouble published in 1973, was written during the heyday of the Black Power movement, when African-Americans were trying to gain racial equality and called for self-determination and racial dignity. African-American short stories of this period often dealt with problematic issues like separation, integration and redefinition of the African American past. Blacks were seeking their cultural roots in Africa, the slogan “Black is beautiful” and the Afro hair style arose. Everyday Use is Alice Walker’s answer to the social discourse of that time, especially concerning the African American concept of heritage and identity.
《高级英语》课文逐句翻译(20)Lesson Four BThe Tragedy(悲剧) of Old Age in America
《高级英语》课文逐句翻译（17）Lesson Four The Tragedy(悲劇) of Old Age in AmericaBy Robert N. ButlerText美国老年的悲剧What is it like to be old in the United States ?在美国，老年是个什么样子？What will our own lives be like when we are old ?当我们自己老了以后，生活会是什么样子？Americans find it difficult to think about old age until they are propelled into the midst of it by their own aging and that of relatives and friends .美国人感到在他们置身于自己的老年或亲朋好友的老年之中以前要考虑老年时的状况是很困难的。
Aging is the neglected stepchild of the human life cycle .衰老过程是人类生命周期中被忽视的非亲生儿。
Though we have begun to examine the socially taboo(忌諱) subjects of dying and death , we have leaped over that that long period of time preceding death , we have leaped over that long period of time preceding death known as old age .虽然我们已开始研究有关临终和死亡这个为社会所忌讳的题目，但是我们却跳过了死亡来临之前、称为老年的那一段漫长的时间。
In truth , it is easier to manage the problem of death than the problem of living as an old person .其实对待死亡的问题比对待老年时生活的问题要更容易Death is a dramatic one-time crisis while old age is a day-by –day and year –by –year confrontation with (對抗)powerful external and internal forces , a bittersweet coming to terms with one’s own personality and one’s life .。
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The March, and especially King's speech, helped put civil rights at the very top of the liberal political agenda in the United States
• the 44th and current President of the United States • the first African American president • took place on January 20, 2009 • the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
• On December 1st 1955 • Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white passenger. • arrested • demand a more humane bus transportation system • Martin Luther King,Jr • lasted for 381 days • The local ordinance segregating AfricanAmericans and whites on public buses was lifted.
slavery was outlawed everywhere in the nation
The policy hadn’t been carried out thoroughly
Civil War
African-American Civil Rights Movement
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He is the leader of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He made a famous speech named I Have A Dream.
Plantation 种植园
have cheap sபைடு நூலகம்aves strong labor
the great discoveries of geography (15th~17th century)
Smashed together : save space Shackled to the ground Were given what they needed for survive Many slaves even tried to kill themselves
Negro / Nigger
Darkie
Black
African American
African American
黑人牙膏 Darkie
disrespectful
Darlie
In 1985, an American company bought this toothpaste company and changed its name.
What’s your impression of the African American ?
African American
Slavery
Civil
Rights Movement
How
can we call those black people?
Negro
Spanish word “black”
Who is he ?
King's main achievement was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States.
Racial Discrimination
Black people didn’t have the same social position as the white people. They had been looked down upon.
1862,The Emancipation Proclamation
《解放奴隶宣言》
Abraham Lincoln
In 1861, advocated abolishing the slavery
Farmers in the southern states
Needed slaves formed the Confederate States of America
Voting Rights
Black people in some southern states didn’t have the rights to vote.
1955–1956, the Montgomery Bus Boycott 1963, March on Washington: I Have A Dream
• • • • • •
Meaningful civil rights laws A massive federal works program Full and fair employment Decent housing The right to vote Adequate integrated education
Why did the African Americans became slaves?
Main reason:
The discovery of the new sea route and the industrial revolution 新航路的开辟和工业革命的兴起
need labor
Industrial Revolution Plantation (18th century) 种植园 The Triangular industrial goods sick Trade
What’s your dream ?
August 28th 1963, a Civil Rights March was held on Washington, marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.
Nearly 200,000 to 300,000 people took part in it.