21世纪大学英语英语课文讲解unit 7 (a) -
Unit 7 教案周次 第 1-2 周 课时数 6 hours教学章节Book 1 Unit 7 Text A I Became Her Target Text B Firm, Fair, and FriendlyText C The Magic Pebbles教学目标要求Objectives: Students will be able to1. 1. Master the skills of writing and reading in this unit. 1) Learning to generalize the statement by reading the concrete facts. 2) Understanding the effective and artistic 风雅的 Use of words.2. 2. Know deeply about racial prejudice in U.S, realizing black peoples social status.3. Realize our own problem in higher educationstudents who come from rural areas or poor families. Try to help, encourage and respect those students. Never hold prejudice against them.4. Realize what qualities we can learn from our teachers.5. Master the usage of the new word & phrases in the text.6. Master the grammatical structures in the text.教学重点1. New words: ignorant, spoil, chase, whereas, view, liberal, dimension, presence, venture, impulsively, gasp, roar, legend, etc.2. Phrases & Expressions: battle ones way, move in, come of, ease in, go at, among other things, clean up, day after day, by chance, etc.3. Writing Skill: making a statement/generalization and supporting it with a specific example/explanation.Unit Seven Text A I Became Her Target Warm-up Questions2. What happened to the writer when he was 12 years old? Skim paragraph 1 to find out.3. How did he feel at that time? Skim paragraph 2 to find out. Presenting the text by summing up the discussion.The author recalled his favorite teacher, Dorothy Bean, with deep emotions. The story concerned howMiss. Bean helped the author, an black boy, built his confidence and did away with loneliness inschools. And the author was accepted by his white students. Miss. Beans justness and love changed alonely childs life who lacked confidence.Background Information1. Negroes, blacks and African Americans Each of these terms refers to the minority group in the U.S. who traces their ancestry to sub-Saharan Africa. Over the years, these words have changed substantially, in their degree of acceptance and their use among the white majority and the black population itself. The term Negro, which is capitalized, became the preferred term in the early 20th century but has been out of date since 1960s. It was replaced by the term black which reflects a greater pride in African identity, as indicated by James Brown's song, “Say it Loud. Im Black and Im Proud.” In the 1970s the term Afro-American was used in many formal contexts, but it has now been replaced by African-American. In current usage, “black” is used in most spoken or informal contexts, and African- American in most formal or written context.2. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Thomas Jefferson served as the third president of United States, was the author of the Declaration of Independence, and founded what came to be the Democratic Party. He played a major part in shaping government theory and practice, putting into words and law the ideals of a nation dedicated to the principle that all men are created equal. Beyond his achievements in politics, Jefferson is noted as a “renaissance man” for his accomplishments in architecture, science, and philosophy, among other fields. He designed his own home, Monticello, which is now a national park, and founded the University of Virginia .3. The New York Yankees Playing in the borough 纽约市五个行政区之一 of the Bronx in New York City, the Yankees are the most famous and the most successful team in the history of major league baseball. They have won the World Series championship, which is played each October, more often than any other team.4. Racial prejudice/ segregation in the United States A system of racial segregation arose soon after the American Civil War in most former slave states. In 1948, President Truman ordered to put an end to segregation in the armed forces and segregation of the races in public schools was banned in 1954. However, most white schools remained totally segregated by the mid-1960s regardless of the governments many efforts, school desegregation has still not seen accomplished in much of the U.S.5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (18821945)The 32nd U.S. president (1933-1945), considered by many to be the greatest American president of the 20th century. He launched the economic and social reform program, “New Deal” to help the “forgotten man” during the Great Depression. He also led the country through most of World War II. He was reelected for a fourth term in 1944, but died in 1945.6. the Louisiana PurchaseThis term refers to a land deal made between U.S. president Thomas Jefferson and Napoleon Bonaparte of France in 1803. Jefferson authorized the purchase of land from the Mississippi River westward to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico northward to Canada for roughly $ 15million. Though it was a great Bargain, doubling the size of the U.S. at the time and adding richly productive farmlands, the Louisiana Purchase was controversial b
