泛读第一单元第一课PPT_Becoming_Educated_for_students.ppt

Lesson One Becoming Educated Writing Features the first person narrator description the author doesn’t straightly telling us the function of the first person narrator (sex,age,race etc.) simple style of writing (colloquial language) Unit One I. Background information about the author Barbara Jordan 1936-1996 born in Texas grew up in Houston’s black ghetto(黑人区) attended segregated(种族隔离的)public schools graduated from the all-black Texas Southern University chose law as a career because she believed that with her knowledge of law, she would then be able to eliminate racial injustice I. Background information about the author Barbara Jordan eager to leave the world of segregated education, enrolled at Boston University Law School in 1956 in 1959 graduated and passed both the Massachusetts and Texas bar(律师) examinations the first woman and the only black in the Texas State Senate I. Background information about the author Barbara Jordan the first woman and the only black member of the U.S Congress from Texas the first woman and the only black member of Congress from the entire South In 1979, retired from Congress, became a professor at the University of Texas In 1992, received the Spingarn Medal for her devoted service in Congress The first and only black woman buried in the Texas State Cemetery I. Background information about the author Barbara Jordan On April 24, 2009, a Barbara Jordan statue was unveiled at the University of Texas at Austin, where Jordan taught at the time of her death. Barbara Jordan Memorial at UT Austin I. Background information about the author Barbara Jordan Many of Jordans speeches have been collected in a 2007 publication from the University of Texas Press, Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder v Congresswoman Barbara Jordan understanding first person narrator In this writing, Barbara Jordan tells us her personal experience as a law school stud