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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Unit Two,Civil-Rights Heroes,1/76,1.Famous Civil-Rights Heroes:,Abraham Lincoln,John F.Kennedy,Martin Luther King,Bobby Kennedy,Background Information,2/76,1.1 Abraham Lincoln,Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the US.As President,he issued,The,Emancipation Proclamation,(,解放黑人奴隶宣言,)that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy(,南部邦联,).,During the Civil War Lincoln stated most movingly in dedicating the military,cemetery(公墓),at Gettysburg:“that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation,under God,shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people,by the people,for the people,shall not,perish(灭亡),from the earth.”,3/76,On April 14,1865,Lincoln was assassinated at Fords Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth,an actor,who somehow thought he was helping the South.The opposite was the result,for with Lincolns death,the possibility of peace died.,4/76,1.2 John F.Kennedy,John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the thirty-fifth president of the US.In his,Inaugural Address(,就职演说,),he said:“Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.”As President,he took vigorous action in the cause of equal rights,calling for new civil rights,legislation(立法).,On November 22,1963,when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office,John F.Kennedy was killed by an assassins bullets as his,motorcade(,汽车队,),wound through Dallas,Texas.Kennedy was the youngest man elected President;he was the youngest to die.,5/76,1.3 Martin Luther King,Dr.King was a,pivotal(,关键,),figure in the Civil Rights Movement.His lectures and dialogues,stirred(,激起,),the concern and sparked the conscience of a generation.,In one of his speeches,he said,“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be,judged by the color of their skin,but by the content of their character.I have a dream today.I have a dream that.one day right there in Alabama,little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with the little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.I have a dream today.”,6/76,Dr.King was shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis,Tennessee on April 4,1968.Dr.King was in Memphis to help lead,sanitation workers(清洁工人),in a protest against low wages and intolerable working conditions.,7/76,1.4 Bobby Kennedy,Bobby Kennedy or Robert F.Kennedy,was the brother of President John F.Kennedy.He was appointed,attorney general(,司法部长,),of the United States in the early 1960s.,8/76,In September 1962,Attorney General Kennedy,enforced a Federal court order(执行联邦法院裁定,)admitting the first African American student James Meredith to the University of Mississippi.The,riot(,暴乱,),that had followed Merediths,registration(,注册,),had left two dead and hundreds injured.Robert Kennedy saw voting as the key to racial justice and,collaborated(,合作,),with President Kennedy,when he proposed the most,far-reaching(影响深远),civil rights statute(民权法案),since,Reconstruction(重建时期,指南北战争末期南部各州改革重建期),,,The Civil Rights Act,of 1964,passed after President Kennedy was,slain(杀害),on November 22,1963.,9/76,Robert Francis Kennedy was slain on June 5,1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles,California.He was 42 years old.Although his life was cut short,Robert Kennedys vision and ideals live on today.,10/76,2.When Moses was a baby,he escaped the slaughter of the Hebrews firstborn and was raised by an Egyptian princess.He grew up to be the leader who brought the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt and led them into the Promised Land.,11/76,The wonders Moses worked while bringing his people out of the slavery in Egypt,12/76,The Commandments Law of God,13/76,A secret system used in the US before the Civil War for helping thousand of slaves to escape to the North or to Canada.It effectively moved hundreds of slaves northward each year-according to one estimate,the South lost 100,000 slaves between 1810 and 1850.The slaves were called“passengers”,the people who helped them were“conductors”,and the slaves hid in“stations”(safe houses)along the way.,3,.,The Underground Railroad,14/76,4.1 Uncle Tom,:,A black person who is considered to be too eager to help or agree with white people or too willing to accept being treated in a way that is not equal to white people.逆来顺受黑人,4.2 Uncle Toms Cabin,:,A novel that rallied support for the movements to free the slaves in the South of America.When Abraham Lincoln met author Harriett Beecher Stowe,he is reported to have said,So this is the little lady that started this big war!It is about a slave called Tom who is badly treated and finally killed by Simon Legree.,15/76,5.1 the Southern States:Alabama,Arkansas,Florida,Georgia,Louisiana,Mississippi,North Carolina,South Carolina,Tennessee,Texas and Virginia,5.2 The Deep South states(the most southern states of the southeast US):Alabama,Florida,Georgia,Louisiana,Mississippi,South Carolina and eastern Texas,Map Reading,16/76,5.1 the Southern States:Alabama,Arkansas,Florida,Georgia,Louisiana,Mississippi,North Carolina,South Carolina,Tennessee,Texas and Virginia,5.2 The Deep South states(the most southern states of the southeast US):Alabama,Florida,Georgia,Louisiana,Mississippi,South Carolina and eastern Texas,17/76,Global Analysis of Text A,18/76,Organization of the text:,Please scan the text to see if there is any natural division between different parts of the text.(There is a blank line between each part.),The four parts can be regrouped into two larger parts as far as the content of the text is concerned.,Now,lets turn to PP.40-41 and work together to finish the Content Questions and Text Organization.,19/76,Answer the questions on P.40 with information,contained(包含),in Text A and discover the main ideas of each part/story.,20/76,Questions for Part One(Paras.1-5),1.Why did Barbara Carter speak proudly of her great-great-grandfather?(Paras.1-2),Because she thought her great-great-grandfather was a heroic civil-rights fighter and never gave up struggling for freedom.,21/76,2.Why did the author travel to Hensons last home?(Para.3),Because this is a place where many escaped slaves taking the Underground Railroad were finally saved by Henson.,22/76,3.What was the Underground Railroad?,Who,forged(建立),it?,The Underground Railroad was a secret web of escape routes and safe houses through which slaves in large numbers,with the help of lots of courageous people,fled to the North and obtained freedom.Courageous men and women forged it.,23/76,4.Why did the author want to tell the readers the stories of the heroes of the Underground Railroad?,The author wanted to help the Americans remember those heroes.,24/76,Main Idea of Part One,It is high time to honor the heroes who helped liberate slaves by,in the early,struggles in America.,forging the Underground Railroad,civil-rights,25/76,In the second part of the text the author tells the stories of three civil-rights heroes.You are to sum up the main ideas of those stories as is required in Text Organization exercise 2 on P.41.,Now lets work together to discover the main ideas of those stories by answering a couple of content questions.,26/76,Questions for Story 1,(Paras.6-10),1.How did John Parker win his freedom?(Paras.6-7),He saved enough money by working in iron molding on the side to buy his freedom.,2.Why did some people try to capture John Parker?(Paras.8-10),Because he help the slaves escape north to Canada and freedom.,27/76,Main Idea of Story 1,After winning his own,from slavery,John Parker helped other slaves to escape north to,.,freedom,Canada and freedom,28/76,Questions for Story 2(Paras.11-15),1.Why did Levi Coffin,a white man,help black slaves to freedom?(Para.11),Because he was driven by,religious conviction(宗教信仰),.,29/76,2.What risks did Coffin run while helping slaves?(Para.13),Coffin received frequent death threats and warnings that his store and home would be burned.,30/76,They had to travel hundreds of miles through unknown country with no road sign and few maps,usually under the cover of night.,3.What difficulties did the slaves have in travelling the Underground Railroad to freedom?(Para.14),31/76,Main Idea of Story 2,Supported by a strong,the white man Levi Coffin helped black slaves to escape at huge risk to himself.,religious conviction,32/76,Questions for Story 3(Paras.16-23),1.Why did many slaves go to Canada?(Para.16),Because slavery had been abolished there in 1833,and,Canadian authorities(加拿大当局),encouraged the runaways to settle their,virgin land(还未开垦土地).,33/76,2.Why did Henson decide to escape?(Paras.18-19),Because he heard alarming news:the new master was planning to sell him for plantation work in the Deep South.The slave would be separated forever from his family.,34/76,3.What help did the Hensons receive on the way to safety and freedom?Name one or two of the places where the family received help,please.,(Paras.20-21),35/76,the members of the Underground Railroad provided for their welfare,and set them thirty miles on their way by wagon.,In Cincinnati,a friendly captain gave Henson a dollar and arranged for a boat,which carried them to Canada.,In Buffalo,N.Y.,36/76,Main Idea of Story 3,By traveling,Josiah Henson reached his destination and became free at last.,the Underground Railroad,37/76,Main Idea of Part Two(Paras.6-23),By citing examples the author praises the,(业绩),of civil-rights heroes who helped slaves travel the Underground Railroad to,.,exploits,freedom,38/76,39/76,40/76,41/76,42/76,43/76,44/76,45/76,46/76,47/76,48/76,49/76,50/76,51/76,52/76,53/76,54/76,55/76,56/76,57/76,58/76,59/76,60/76,61/76,62/76,63/76,64/76,65/76,66/76,67/76,68/76,69/76,70/76,71/76,72/76,73/76,74/76,75/76,The routes the slaves traveled appear,in this map,.The trip is 560 miles(900 kilometers)long.A strong,lucky runaway might have made it to freedom in two months.For others,especially in bad weather,the trek(,跋涉,)might have lasted a year.,76/76,
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