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Unit 8Unit 8

Stage 1: Warming-up ActivitiesStage 1: Warming-up Activities Stage 1: Warming-up ActivitiesStage 1: Warming-up Activities

Stage 2: Stage 2: Reading-Centred ActivitiesReading-Centred Activities Stage 2: Stage 2: Reading-Centred ActivitiesReading-Centred Activities

Stage 3: After-Reading ActivitiesStage 3: After-Reading Activities Stage 3: After-Reading ActivitiesStage 3: After-Reading Activities

Stage 4: Listening-and-Speaking Stage 4: Listening-and-Speaking PracticePractice

Stage 4: Listening-and-Speaking Stage 4: Listening-and-Speaking PracticePractice

Warming-up ActivitiesWarming-up Activities

Group work Group work

Questions for thought and discussionQuestions for thought and discussion

Background information Background information

Enriching your vocabularyEnriching your vocabulary

Comparing the following words Comparing the following words

Group work Group work

Questions for thought and discussionQuestions for thought and discussion

Background information Background information

Enriching your vocabularyEnriching your vocabulary

Comparing the following words Comparing the following words

Group workGroup work

Go over the preview, the pre-reading questions and the title of the text before listening to the summary of the story and anticipate what we are going to read.

Questions for thought Questions for thought and discussionand discussion

Listen to a short passage Listen to a short passage carefully and then answer carefully and then answer the following questions .the following questions .

Background informationBackground information• Eatonville: It is a small community of great

significance to African-American history and culture. Located just north of Orlando, Florida between Winter Park and Maitland, it is historically recognized as the first incorporated African-American municipality in the United States and one of the oldest surviving African communities in the U.S. Following the Civil War, “free” Africans settling in the area worked primarily as farm hands clearing land or helping in the construction of nearby Maitland, a white township.

Eatonville is culturally important for its renowned native daughter, Zora Neale Hurston (c.f. Note 3 below), author, anthropologist and folklorist. Her words captured forever the culture of the community and painted an image of an environment typical of the rural Southern working-class African-American. Each January, Eatonville plays host to the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities. In addition to Zora Neale Hurston, other notable residents of Eatonville include Hall of Fame football player, Deacon Jones and Dr. Benjamin Perry, president of Florida A&M University.

• Orlando: It is the fifth-ranking U.S. destination of overseas travelers — after San Francisco, Miami, Los Angeles and New York City — and it claims the second highest number of hotel rooms in the U.S., lagging just behind Las Vegas in the bedroom stakes. The city has also established itself as part of Florida's high-tech corridor, boasting not only the space technology industries focused on the Florida Space Coast, but a healthy dose of bits and bytes makers as well.

There wasn't much to Orlando until Walt Disney started buying up property at the city's southwestern edge in the 1960s and the property he bought became Disney World in 1971. Since then, waterslides, roller coasters, fairy tale palaces and costumed characters have made Disney World one of the world's most visited tourist attractions.

• Zora Neale Hurston (1891－ 1960): American writer, folklorist and anthropologist. Born in Eatonville, Florida, Hurston was educated at Howard University, at Barnard College, and at Columbia University, where she studied under German-American anthropologist Franz Boas. Eatonville was the first incorporated all-black town in the United States, and Hurston returned there after college for anthropological field study that influenced her later output in fiction as well as in folklore. Hurston also collected folklore in Jamaica, Haiti, Bermuda, and Honduras.

Mules and Men (1935), one of her best-known folklore collections, was based on her field research in the American South. Tell My Horse (1938) described folk customs in Haiti and Jamaica. As a fiction writer, Hurston is noted for her metaphorical language, her story-telling abilities, and her interest in and celebration of Southern black culture in the United States. Some of her earliest work was published in the small magazine Fire!!, which Hurston, along with notable writers such as Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman, produced in 1926.

Her best-known novel is Their Eyes Were Watching God, in which she tracked a Southern black woman's search, over 25 years and 3 marriages, for her true identity and a community in which she can develop that identity. Hurston's prolific literary output also includes such novels as Jonah's Gourd Vine and Seraph on the Suwanee, short stories, plays, journal articles, and an autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road. Hurston's work was not political, but her characters' use of dialect, her manner of portraying black culture, and her conservatism created controversy within the black community.

Throughout her career she addressed issues of race and gender, often relating them to the search for freedom. In her later years Hurston experienced health problems, and she died impoverished and unrecognized by the literary community. Her writings, however, were rediscovered in the 1970s by a new generation of black writers, notably Alice Walker, and many of Hurston's works were republished. In 1995 a two-volume set of her writings, some previously unpublished, was released.

• Jacksonville: It is 134 miles northeast of Orlando, Florida. Once infamous for its smelly paper mills, it is now one of the South's insurance and banking capitals. Although Jacksonville claims to be the capital of Florida's historic “First Coast”, the city dates its beginnings from an early-1800s settlement named Cowford, because cattle crossed the St. Johns River here. Cowford changed its name to Jacksonville in 1822 to honor General Andrew Jackson, the provisional governor who forced Spain to cede Florida to the United States 2 years earlier.

• the Civil War: The American Civil War was the only war fought on American soil by Americans. 3 million fought and 600,000 died. It was fought in the United States of America between the northern states, popularly referred to as the “Union”, and the seceding southern states (in the U.S., The South), calling themselves the Confederate States of America or the “Confederacy” between 1861 and 1865. There is considerable debate about causes that may have motivated the states to war, such as state's rights with respect to the federal government, taxation, and imbalance of trade.

But there is no question that the salient issue in the minds of the public and popular press of the time, and the histories written since, was the issue of slavery. Slavery had been abolished in most northern states, but was legal and important to the economy of the Confederacy, which depended on cheap agricultural labor. The Union was led by President Abraham Lincoln and the Confederacy by President Jefferson Davis. Significant Southern military leaders included Robert E. Lee, Thomas Stonewall Jackson, James Longstreet, and P.G.T. Beauregard. Northern leaders included Ulysses Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and George Meade.

It started with Lincoln's victory in the presidential election of 1860, which made South Carolina's secession from the Union a foregone conclusion. The state had long been waiting for an event that would unite the South against the antislavery forces. Once the election returns were certain, a special South Carolina convention declared “that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states under the name of the ‘United States of America' is hereby dissolved.” By February 1, 1861, six more Southern states had seceded. On February 7, the seven states adopted a provisional constitution for the Confederate States of America. The remaining southern states as yet remained in the Union. 

Less than a month later, on March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as president of the United States. In his inaugural address, he refused to recognize the secession, considering it “legally void”. His speech closed with a plea for restoration of the bonds of union. But the South turned deaf ears, and on April 12, guns opened fire on the federal troops stationed at Fort Sumter in the Charleston, South Carolina harbor. The war ended in 1865 with the surrender of Confederate forces.

General Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia on 9 April 1865 at Appomattox Court house. The Civil War ended with the emancipation of all slaves held in the Confederate States. Slaves were not freed in the remaining states until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution by 3/4 of the states, which did not occur until December of 1865, 8 months after the end of the war. A great deal of ill will among the Southern survivors resulted from the total warfare practiced during the war by the Union armies and the “reconstruction” program forced on the former Confederacy by the Union victors.

Enriching your Enriching your vocabularyvocabulary

Read the sentences carefully and guess the meaning of the italicized term in each sentence according to the context and your own experiences.

• She propped herself against the cold, damp wall with the baby in one hand and a bottle of gin in the other.

• He lay, propped up by pillows, his face pale and eyes dull.

• The organization had continually opposed any change and had had little understanding of the industrialization process up to that time.

靠在

靠着

直到那时

• My study is the perfect place for an author, especially if he doesn‘t object to being occasionally peered at through the windows by curious visitors.

• These points have been mentioned in passing in the previous class, but they are summarized here for the sake of convenience and for added emphasis.

凝视

顺便

• Yesterday‘s meeting resumed talks broken off 8 years ago; this event has been taken as a new start in the relationship between the two countries.

• Your behavior is extremely important in that it conveys your attitude much more effectively and directly than the words you use.

中断

因为，在于

• But talent can be developed and trained and provide a sound basis for you to give of the best inside you.

• Even when other people around us do things we disapprove of, we don‘t have to laugh at them.

• Although they belonged to different generations, they shared many thoughts in common.

展现

不赞同

属于

• This time he could afford to make no mistake: his teacher was there at his elbow, watching every move.

• It is the community who should, in the main, determine whether police are to be involved in resolving community conflicts.

在旁边

大体而言

• Doubtlessly he paid a price for that too, but if he had not felt that misery he could never have created the works he did.

• Retirement allowed him the time to enjoy music, often in company with his children and grandchildren.

• As soon as he's more or less mastered something, he's bored with it.

为…付出代价

与…一起

或多或少

Homework Homework

• Learn the new words and expressions of the text by heart.

• Go over the text and try to get the main idea of the text.

• Analyze the structure of the text.

Reading-Centred Reading-Centred ActivitiesActivities

1. Global Reading Task • Reading Skills: • Text structure analysis:

2. Detailed Reading Task • Language points• Simulated writing• Summary of the text

After-Reading ActivitiesAfter-Reading Activities

• Vocabulary Exercises

• Translating and Writing

Listening and speaking activities

• Talking about the topic or retelling the text

• Listening and speaking practice in XP center