2019-2020年高二英语Unit14 Freedom fighters.doc

2019-2020年高二英语Unit14 Freedom fighters.Brief Statements Based on the UnitThis unit tells us about freedom fighters, who fight for the rights of blacks. Warming up shows us some information about two heroesMartin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela. In Speaking activity, students can express what they think with the help of the useful expressions given in this part. Students can improve their English, and at the same time learn the fine quality from them. Listening passage gives the students a good chance to improve their listening ability. The reading passage “I have a dream” gives us a lot of information about Martin Luther King, Jr. It describes the situation in the southern states in Kings time, especially gives us a detailed description about the struggle for equal rights of all blacks. The whites treated the blacks unfairly, which led to many nonviolent demonstrations against racial discrimination. The text shows us a hero and brave fighter. In the end, his struggle changed the whole society of the USA, and the blacks are treated with respect in the same way as the whites now. From this passage students can learn some useful words and expressions, and also they will improve their prehensive ability. Language study helps us review some useful words and Grammar provides some sentences to let the students review the Passive Voice. Integrating skills is arranged to further improve the students reading and writing abilities. The students are sure to master many useful words and expressions. Meanwhile they are sure to improve their abilities to use the English language in the active, interesting and instructive activities.Teaching Goals1. Talk about civil rights and freedom fighters.2. Express logical relations.3. Review the Passive Voice.4. Practise argumentative writing.Background Information1. I have a dreamIm not unmindful that some of you have e here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have e fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have e from areas where your first quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not water in the valley of despair.I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners, will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right down in Alabama our little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today.I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low; the rough places will be made plain; and the crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together ,to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.This will be the day, this will be the day, when all of Gods children will be able to sing with new meaning, “My country is of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrims pride, from every mountain side, let freedom ring.” And if America is to be a great nation, this must bee true.So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains