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Unit 7 Terrorism
Teaching Plan
I. Objectives
1. grasp the main idea and structure of the text;
2. appreciate the characteristics of a familiar essay;
3. master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text;
4. conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities related to the theme of the unit.
II. Teaching Procedures
Pre-reading tasks:
1. Ask students the following questions on the recording:
-- How many planes were hijacked on September 11.2001? What were their targets?
-- Why do you think the plane crashed?
2. Pair work: Dialogue
1) Ss form pairs to prepare a dialogue between the wife of Todd Beamer their child /parent /friend or a friend a or a psychiatrist after the Sept. 11 event. The dialogue may be about:
－－What happened during the flight?
－－What were the reactions of the wife and their child / parent / friend / psychiatrist?
－－What is their outlook for the future?
2) A few Ss pairs report to the class.
1. T may move on to Text A by saying: Just now , we role-played a dialogue between the Todd Beamer’s wife and their child / parent / friend / psychiatrist. However, how do the rest of Americans react to this event? Let’s read Text A to find out.

While-reading tasks:
1. Title interpretation
a) Ss read the title and subtitle , then define“nightmare”, “dream”, and “the subconscious”.
b) Without going through the text, Ss predict what each of the three terms refers to in the text.
c) T asks Ss to check their interpretations against the text as they read on.
2. T explains the language points in the text and has Ss prepare them.
3. Students do Text Organization Exercise 2.

Post-reading tasks:
1. Getting to know what a familiar essay is
1. T asks Ss if they were confused about the text structure.
2. T explains the main characteristics of familiar essay.
3. T and Ss work together to find out examples in the text that embody those main characteristics.
1. T helps Ss along through some after-text exercise.
3. T checks on Ss’ home reading.(Text B)
4. Ss do Part IV: Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks.
5. T asks Ss to prepare for the next unit:
a) do the pre-reading task;
b) preview Text A.

III. Text Analysis
Characteristics of the familiar essay:

1. Marked by informality: the familiar essay is a short literary composition of reflective, interpretive kind, usually dealing with its subject from a limited, personal point of view in a non-technical, often unsystematic way. All this determines its style: informal, colloquial, very conversational.
2. Using convert, often subtle details to convey abstract ideas and inmost feelings.(Text A, careful selection of incidents to show people’s changes in attitude, behavior, mental state, etc. For example, how an African American and the author greeted each other in a friendly way, how her friend turned away when answering questions about the 9/11 event.)
3. Searching for meaning: the purpose of the familiar essay is usually a search for meaning in the everyday context.
The way to dig out the true meaning of something includes: to give facts that illuminate and illustrate; to analyze cause and effect; to examine history and possibility; to cinder what others have aid about it.
4. Use of figurative language: metaphor, simile, symbols, imagery; metonymy(using part of something to refer to the whole),etc. (In Text A, “we feel as if we were faxed”—simile; the Brooklyn Bridge as a symbol of beauty, freedom and technological wonder)
5. The role of audience: through movement from concrete to abstract and back again, the familiar essay often gets the readers involved in interpreting matters. A good familiar essay may create in the reader an empathetic attitude to what’s happening, making him/her a partaker rather than just an onlooker of the events described.
6. no set structure: but will move from the abstract to the concrete and back again.

IV. Cultural Notes
1. The Wall Street Journal
The leading financial newspaper in U S. It was first published in 1989 by Charles H Dow and Edward D Jones and is still owned by Dow Jones & Company, which also publishes the Dow Jones Average. Although its main concern is business and economic news, the journal also carries full-size articles about political and general topics.
2. Terrorism
Use of violence, or the threat of violence, to create a climate of fear in a given population. Terrorist violence targets ethnic or religious groups, governments, political parties, corporations, and media enterprises. Organizations that engage in acts of terror are usually small in size and limited in resources compared to the populations and institutions they oppose. Through publicity and fear generated by their violence, they seek to magnify their influence and power to affect political change on either a local or an international scale.
3. september11 Attack
Coordinated terrorist strikes in the US in 2001that killed more than 3,000 people and shook the nation to its core.
On the sunny morning of September 11,2001, 19 terrorists, working in teams of 4 or 5, hijacked four commercial jetliners and turned them toward targets chosen for destruction. Two of the planes, loaded with fuel and passengers, were flown at full speed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in the financial district of New York City. The buildings burst into flame and then collapsed, killing thousands. A third terrorist crew smashed their plane into the Pentagon, headquarters of The U.S. military in Arlington, Virginia. The hijackers of the fourth airliners apparently intended to hit another target in the Washington, D.C., area, but passengers on the plane realized what was happening and fought back. This airline crashed in a field in rural Pennsylvania.
Almost immediately after the September 11 attacks, suspicious centered on Osama bin Laden as the person responsible. As the leader of a terrorists organization known as al-Oaeda, Arabic for “the camp,” bin Landen had advocated violence against the U.S. and its citizens. ”To kill Americans and their allies—civilians and military—is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any county in which it is possible to do it,” Bin Laden declared in a published communique in 1998. As the her to much of his father’s fortune, Bin Laden had access to hundreds of millions of dollars, and he had used the money to build an international terrorists network with cells in several countries. Evidence had linked al-Oaeda operatives to four previous attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 that killed 6 people; an attack on a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia in 1996 in which 19 U.S. soldiers were killed; the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in1998 that killed more 200 people; and a suicide attacks on the USS Cole, a Navy destroyer, off the coast of Yemen in the fall of 2000, that killed 17 U.S. sailors.
Federal, local, and state government agencies in the United States found themselves suddenly redefining national security to include the defines of U.S. soil against foreigner attack, a new and unfamiliar idea. In a speech before a joint session of Congress nine days after the September11 attacks, U.S. president George W. Bush said he said he was creating a new cabinet-level position, the Office of Homeland Security. The new department was to coordinate the work of more than 40 federal agencies, including the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in order to prevent and respond to future terrorists’ attacks U.S. territory.
In the same speech to Congress, Bush suggested that the top priority of his administration would be a campaign to end terrorism. He affirmed that all the evidence collected at that point indicated that al-Qaeda was the organization responsible for the September 11 attacks, and he promised that a U.S.-led war on terrorism would begin with a drive to eliminate that organization. But in a key expansion of U.S. antiterrorism efforts, Bush said the United States would not only target the terrorist organizations themselves, but also those governments that support them. “Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. Form this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism with be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.”
4. New York (city)
The largest city in the United States, the home of the United Nations, and the center of global finance, communications, and business. New York City is unusual among cities because of its high residential density, its extraordinary diverse population, its hundreds of tall office and apartment buildings, its thriving central business district, its extensive public transportation system, and theaters constitute an ensemble of cultural richness rivaled by few cities. In 2000 the population of the city of New York was 8,008,278; the population of the metropolitan region was 21,199,865.
5. Manhattan (New York)
Borough of New York Country, southeastern New York, at the head of Upper New York bay. The main economic hub of New York City, Manhatten is one of the world’s leading commercial, financial, cultural, manufacturing, medical, and tourist centers. Manhatten Island, which makes up almost all of the borough, is bounded on the north and northeast by Spuyten Duyvil Creek and the Harlem River, which separate it from the borough of the Boronx; on the east by the East River, which separates it from the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn; on the south by Upper New York Bay; and on the west by the Hudson River, which separates it from New Jersey. The borough, about 80 sq km (about 31sq mi) in area, also encompasses a small exclave (Marbe Hill) on the Bronx mainland; several islands in the East River Island, and Wards Island; and Governors Island(the site of a large modern housing complex), Randalls Island, and Wards Island; and Governors Island in upper New York Bay.
6. Hepburn, Katharine(1970-)
American actress, winner of four Academy Awards for best actress, noted for her unique combination of patrician beauty and spunky earthiness. Born in Hartford, Coonnecticut, she was educated at Bryn Mawr College. She scored a notable successes on Broadway in 1932 in The Warrior’s Husband; their stage roles include those in The philiadelphia Story(1939), As you like it(1950), etc, She also starred in the motion-picture version of Morning Glory(1933), for which she received her first Academy Award, Guess Who’s coming to dinner(1967), for which she won her second Academy Award, and The Lion in Winter(1968), for which she shared an Academy Award with American actress Barbra Streisand. Later films include The Tjojan Women (1972 and On Golden Pond (1981), for which she won her fourth Academy Award. Hepburn’s autobiography, Me: Stories of my life, was published in 1991 and because a bestseller.
7. Tracy Sencer(1900-1967)
US actor, known for playing calm, reliable characters. He won Oscar for his parts in Captains Courageous(1937) and Boys Town(1938). He and Katherine Hepburn made nine films together, include Adam’s Rib(1949), Pat ad Mike(1952) and his last, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner(1967). His other films include Father of the Bride(1950), Bad Day at Black Rock(1955), The Old Man and the Sea(1958) and Inherit the wind(1960).
8. Powell, Colin L(uther)(1937-)
United States military leader and secretary of state under President George W. Bush(2001-). He is the first black secretary of state in U.S. history.
The son of Jamaican immigrants, Powell was born in New York City and attended City College of New York as a cadet in the Reserve Officers Training Corps. After serving two tours of duty in the Vietnam War(1962-1963), he held a succession of important military and civilian positions, becoming national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan in 1987. Prompted to the rank of four-star general in April 1989, Powell was named chairman of Joint Chief of Staff in August, the first black officer to hold the nation’s highest military post. Powell played a pivotal role in planning and executing the invasion of Panama in1989 and the Persion Gulf War(1991). He retired from the military in September 1993. In 1993 Powell published his autobiography, My American Journal, and went on a national book tour to promote the book. During the book tour, there was speculation that Powell would run for president in the 1996 election. However, in November 1995 Powell announced that he would not pursue any political office in 1996. In December 2000 President-elect Bush appointed Powell to oversee the Department of State.

V. Language Study
1. reflect on/upon : think deeply about, remind oneself of (past events)
e.g. It’s a good habit to reflect on what you have done in the past.
We agree that a central purpose of drama has always been to provide a means for a society to reflect upon itself and its belief.
2. fax : transmit printed matter or an image by electronic means
e.g. Travelling businesspeople can send and receive electronic mail and fax message in some airports.
To deal with stiffer competition, hotels and motels offer better services, such as faxing and photocopying for business travelers.
n.
e.g. Telegrams has been largely replaced by other forms of telecommunications, such as fax machines and electronic mail.
3. span : extend across in space or time
e.g. Travellers will be able to walk across a footbridge that spans the Huangpu River by 2010.
The film, spanning almost a quarter-century, tell the story of the Kenedy family.
4. I am struck… : I am impressed…
5. jog : run slowly for physical exercises; push slightly
e.g. Running at a slow pace is sometimes called jogging.
Peter jogged my arm and made me spill my tea
6. hike : go for a long walk
e.g. We are planning to hike in the country on Sunday.
Helen had hiked across Europe in youth
7. for nothing : without payment, free; with no reward or result
e.g. I know the cyber bar manager so I always get in for nothing.
All that hard work for nothing!
8. maintenance : maintaining or being maintained
e.g. Concrete pavements have a long life and require little maintenance.
Our research focuses on using computers, instrumentation, automation, and new materials to improve bridge design, construction, and maintenance.
9. contend : struggle or compete (usu. followed by with, or for)
e.g. Several teams are contending for the prize.
She has had a lot of problems to contend with.
10. disapproving : showing disapproval
e.g. When I suggested a drink, she gave me a disapproving look.
When I showed my newly-bought suit to her, she cast a disapproving look at it.
11. hold up : put sb./sth. forward as an example, show
e.g. This school is being held up as a model for other middle schools in the city.
My sister was always held up to me as a model child.
12. pert