张汉熙高级英语第二册课件第12课.ppt

 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American  James Baldwin Aims: 1) Improving students’ ability to read between lines and understand the text properly; 2) Cultivating students’ ability to make a creative reading; 3) Enhancing students’ ability to appreciate the text from different perspectives Aims: 4) Helping students to understand some difficult words and expressions; 5) Helping students to understanding rhetorical devices; 6)? Encouraging students to voice their own viewpoint fluently and accurately. Teaching Contents: 1)????? Background Knowledge 2)????? Exposition 3)????? Detailed study of the Essay Organization Pattern Styles and Language Features 6)????? Special Difficulties Time Allocation: 1) Background knowledge (15 min.) 2) Detailed study of the text (180 min.) 3) Structure analysis (15 min.) 4) Language appreciation (15 min.) 5) Free talk (30 min) Background Knowledge 1) About the author, James Baldwin, and his major works http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jbaldwin.htm 2) Other Negro writers: Richard Wright: /depts/english/ms-writers/dir/wright_richard/ Ralph Allison 3) Expatriates Exposition /~arnetha/expowrite/info.html Detailed study of The Essay Pre-reading Question: 1)?In what way does this title impress you? Have you ever thought of what is means to be A Chinese? 2) In some people’s eyes, to be an American means to enjoy more freedom. Do you share their view? Part One: Para.1-9  Mainly focus on what Baldwin, as an American Negro have found out in Europe. 1) Beginning with the quotation of famous American writer Henry James lends authority and force to what one intends to say 2) In Europe, the author makes an principal discovery of how complex the fate to be American Why does the author leave America? 1) afraid of being unable to live through all the furious struggle brought by racial discrimination in America; 2) wanted to