1、Supplementary Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Global Reading,Detailed Reading,Before Reading,Unit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes,Supplementary Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Global Reading,Before Reading,Unit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes,Supplementary Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Global Rea
2、ding,Before Reading,Unit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes,Supplementary Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Global Reading,Before Reading,Unit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes,Supplementary Reading,After Reading,Detailed Reading,Global Reading,Before Reading,Unit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes,B R _ main,English Song,Abraham,M
3、artin&John,Text Prediction,Background Information,B R _ English Song _ main,English Song,Abraham,Martin&John,Read the Script of the Song,People in the Song,Think While Listening,B R _,Background Information,_ main,Background Information,Timeline of Slavery,The Underground Railroad,Map Reading,Uncle
4、Toms Cabin,B R _,Think While Listening,Think While Listening,Listen to the song,Abraham,Martin&John,sung by Dion,and think about the following questions.,1.A few names are mentioned in this song.Can you make out who these people are?,They are Abraham Lincoln,John F.Kennedy,Martin Luther King and Bob
5、by Kennedy.,Clues:They are all Americans.All died young.They freed a lot of people.,2.Do you know why they all died young?,3.Whom did they free?,B R _,Read the Script of the Song 1,Abraham,Martin&John,Has anybody here,Seen my old friend Abraham?,Can you tell me,where hes gone?,He freed a lot of peop
6、le,But it seems the good they die young,You know,I just looked around,And hes gone.,Anybody here,Seen my old friend John?,Can you tell me,where hes gone?,Read the Script of the Song,B R _,Read the Script of the Song 2,He freed a lot of people,But it seems the good they young,I just looked around,And
7、 hes gone.,Anybody here,Seen my old friend Martin?,Can you tell me,where hes gone?,He freed a lot of people,But it seems the good they die young,I just looked around,And hes gone.,B R _,Read the Script of the Song 3,Didnt you love the things that they stood for?,Didnt they try to find some good for
8、you and me?,And well be free,Someday soon its gonna be one day.,Anybody here,Seen my old friend Bobby?,Can you tell me,where hes gone?,I thought I saw him walkin up over the hill,With Abraham,Martin and John.,B R _,People in the Song 1,1.Abraham Lincoln,Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of
9、 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,).,People in the Song,During the Civil War Lincoln stated most movingly in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg:“that we here highly resolve that th
10、ese 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 from the earth.”,B R _,People in the Song 2,On April 14,1865,Lincoln was assassinated at Fords Theatre in Washington by Jo
11、hn 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.,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
12、车队,)wound through Dallas,Texas.Kennedy was the youngest man elected President;he was the youngest to die.,B R _,People in the Song 3,2.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
13、 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.,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
14、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,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 bla
15、ck girls will be able to join hands with the little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.I have a dream today.”,B R _,People in the Song 4,3.Martin Luther King,Dr.King was shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis,Tennessee on April 4,1968.Dr.King was in Memph
16、is to help lead sanitation workers in a protest against low wages and intolerable working conditions.,B R _,People in the Song 5,Kennedy enforced a Federal court order admitting the first African American student James Meredith to the University of Mississippi.The riot(,暴动,)that had followed Meredit
17、hs registration(,注册,)had left two dead and hundreds injured.Robert Kennedy saw voting as the key,B R _,People in the Song 6,4.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.,
18、In September 1962,Attorney General,to racial(,种族的,)justice(,正义,)and collaborated(,合作,)with President Kennedy when he proposed the most far-reaching civil rights statute since Reconstruction,The Civil Rights Act,of 1964,passed after President Kennedy was slain on November 22,1963.,Robert Francis Kenn
19、edy 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.,B R _,People in the Song 7,1.What is an underground railroad in the normal sense?,2.What is this underground railroad sp
20、ecial for?,3.Can you imagine what this railroad was built for?,B R _,Text Prediction 1,Text Prediction,Read the introductory part of the text and think about the following questions.,In 2004 a center in honor of the“underground railroad”opens in Cincinnati.The railroad was unusual.It sold no tickets
21、 and had no trains.Yet it carried thousands of passengers to the destination of their dreams.,B R _,Text Prediction 2,4.What probably are the dreams of the passengers?,5.What probably is the destination of their dreams?,6.What is the text probably about?,B R _,Map Reading 1,Map Reading,Read the foll
22、owing three maps and answer the following questions.,Click to see big picture.,B R _,Map Reading 2,1.Find the following states:,Alabama,Arkansas,Florida,Georgia,Louisiana,Mississippi,North Carolina,South Carolina,Tennessee,Texas,Virginia.,2.Which states are most densely populated with slaves?,Which
23、part do these states belong to,the Northern States or the Southern States?,3.Where did most slaves want to go?,B R _,Map Reading 3,B R _,Map Reading 4,B R _,Map Reading 5,B R _,Timeline of Slavery 1,Timeline of Slavery,1619 Slaves in Virginia,Africans brought to Jamestown are the first slaves import
24、ed into Britains North American colonies.,1705 Slaves as Property,Describing slaves as real estate,Virginia lawmakers allowed owners to bequeath their slaves.The same law allowed masters to“kill and destroy”runaways.,B R _,Timeline of Slavery 2,1775 American Revolution Began,Battles at the Massachus
25、etts towns of Lexington and Concord on April 19 sparked the war for American independence from Britain.,1776,Declaration of Independence,The Continental Congress asserted“that these United Colonies are,and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States”.,B R _,Timeline of Slavery 3,1783 American R
26、evolution Ended,Britain and the infant United States signed the,Peace of Paris,treaty.,1808 United States Banned Slave Trade,Importing African slaves was outlawed,but smuggling continued.,1860 Abraham Lincoln Elected,Abraham Lincoln of Illinois became the first Republican to win the United States Pr
27、esidency.,B R _,Timeline of Slavery 4,18611865 United States Civil War,Four years of brutal conflict claimed 623,000 lives.,1863,The,Emancipation Proclamation,President Abraham Lincoln decreed that all slaves in rebel territory were free on January 1,1863.,1865 Slavery Abolished,The 13th Amendment t
28、o the United States Constitution outlawed slavery.,The Underground Railroad was not underground.Because escaping slaves and the people who helped them were technically breaking the law,they had to stay out of sight.They went“underground”in terms of concealing their actions.,Sometimes they even hid i
29、n unusual places.,Many clever and creative ideas helped slaves during their escape.When abolitionist,(,废奴主义者,),John Fairfield needed to sneak,(,偷偷摸摸地进行,),28 slaves over the roads near Cincinnati,he hired a hearse,(,灵车,),and disguised the group as a funeral procession.,B R _,The Underground Railroad
30、1,The Underground Railroad,1.General Information,B R _,The Underground Railroad 2,Henry“Box”Brown,a slave,had himself shipped from Richmond to Philadelphia in,a wooden box,.,2.Routes to Freedom,The routes the slaves traveled appear,in this map,.The trip is 560 miles(900 kilometers)long.,A strong,luc
31、ky 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.,B R _,The Underground Railroad 3,B R _,The Underground Railroad 4,B R _,The Underground Railroad 5,Uncle Toms Cabin,written by Harriet Beecher Stowe,is one of the most
32、famous and popular pieces of Civil War literature.Drawn from selected pieces of real life anecdotes,Uncle Toms Cabin,was a book that drew many people into the fight over the institution of slavery.Northerners hailed(,欢呼,)the book,while southern slaveholders abhorred it.,B R _,Uncle Toms Cabin,Uncle
33、Toms Cabin,G R _ main,True or False,Part Division of the Text,Further Understanding,G R _ Further Understanding,Further Understanding,Text Analysis,Questions and Answers,G R _,True or False 1,True or False,1.Just like Uncle Tom in,Uncle Toms Cabin,Josiah Henson was a long-suffering slave who was unw
34、illing to stand up for himself.,F,According to Barbara Carter,Josiah Henson was a man of principle and totally different from Uncle Tom.,(,),2.All the men and women who forged the Underground Railroad were blacks.,F,Some whites were driven by religious convictions and took part in this movement.,(,)
35、G R _,True or False 2,3.These railroad conductors were frequently faced with,death threats and warnings from the local government.,T,(,),4.Many fugitives chose Canada as their primary destination because slavery had been abolished there.,T,(,),G R _,Part Division of the Text,Part Division of the Te
36、xt,Parts,Para(s),Main Ideas,1,15,It is high time to honor the heroes who helped liberate slaves by forging the Underground Railroad in the early civil-rights struggles in America.,2,623,By citing examples the author praises the exploits of civil-rights heroes who helped slaves travel the Underground
37、 Railroad to freedom.,G R _,Questions and Answers,1,Questions and Answers,Uncle Tom was an enduring slave and unwilling to struggle for himself,while Josiah Henson did what he believed was right and took an active part in the anti-slavery movement.,1.Both Josiah Henson and Uncle Tom were slaves.But
38、in the eyes of Barbara Carter,they were different.In what way was Josiah Henson different from Uncle Tom?,G R _,Questions and Answers,2,In the Bible,Moses was the leader who brought the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt and led them to the Promised Land.Just like Moses,Henson helped hundreds of sla
39、ves escape to Canada and liberty,so he was called an African-American Moses.,2.Why was Henson called an African-American Moses?,The Underground Railroad was a secret web of escape routes and safe houses.Many men and women,including both the blacks and whites,together forged it.,3.What was the Underg
40、round Railroad?Who forged it?,G R _,Questions and Answers,3,Because most of them remain too little remembered and their exploits are still largely unsung.,4.Why does the author want to tell the readers the stories of the heroes of the Underground Railroad?,G R _,Text Analysis 1,Text Analysis,In this
41、 part,the author tells the stories of three civil-rights heroes.Who are they?Give the main idea of each story.,Stories,Main Ideas,1,After winning his own freedom from slavery,John Parker helped other slaves escape north to Canada to get freedom.,Heroes,Para(s),John Parker,610,G R _,Text Analysis 2,S
42、tories,Main Ideas,3,Supported by a strong religious conviction,the white man Levi Coffin helped black slaves escape at huge risk to himself.,Heroes,Para(s),Josiah Henson,1623,2,Levi Coffin,1115,By traveling the Underground Railroad,Josiah Henson reached his destination and became free at last.,A gen
43、tle,breeze,swept the Canadian plains as I stepped outside the small two-story house.Alongside me was a,slender,woman in a black dress,my guide back to a time when the surrounding settlement in Dresden,Ontario,was home to a hero in American history.As we walked toward a plain gray church,Barbara Cart
44、er spoke,proudly of her great-great-grandfather,Josiah Henson.“He was confident that the Creator intended all men to be created equal.And he never gave up struggling for that freedom.”,D R _ Text 1,THE FREEDOM GIVERS,Fergus M.Bordewich,Carters devotion to her ancestor is about more than personal pri
45、de:it is about family honor.For Josiah Henson has lived on through the character in American fiction that he helped inspire:Uncle Tom,the long-suffering slave in Harriet Beecher Stowes,Uncle Toms Cabin,.Ironically,that character has come to symbolize everything Henson was not.A,racial,sellout unwill
46、ing to,stand up for,himself?Carter gets angry at the thought.,“,Josiah Henson was a man of,principle,”she said firmly.,D R _ Text 2,I had traveled here to Hensons last home now a,historic,site,that Carter formerly directed to learn more about a man who was,in many ways,an African-American Moses.,Aft
47、er winning his own freedom from slavery,Henson secretly helped hundreds of other slaves to escape north to Canada and liberty.Many settled here in Dresden with him.,Yet this stop was only part of a much larger,mission,for me.,Josiah Henson is but one name on a long list of courageous men and women w
48、ho together,forged,the Underground Railroad,a secret,web,of escape routes and safe houses that they used to,liberate,slaves from the American South.Between 1820 and 1860,as many as 100,000 slaves traveled the Railroad to freedom.,D R _ Text 3,D R _ Text 4,In October 2000,President Clinton,authorized
49、16 million for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to honor this first great civil-rights struggle in the U.S.,The center is scheduled to open in 2004 in Cincinnati.And its about time.For the heroes of the Underground Railroad remain too little remembered,their,exploits,still largely
50、unsung.I,was intent on telling,their stories.,D R _ Text 5,John Parker tensed when he heard the soft knock.,Peering,out his door into the night,he recognized the face of a trusted neighbor.“Theres a party of escaped slaves hiding in the woods,in Kentucky,twenty miles from the river,”the man whispere






