张汉熙高级英语 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American

The Discovery of What It Means to Be an AmericanJames Baldwin

张汉熙高级英语 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American

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

张汉熙高级英语 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American

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.

张汉熙高级英语 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American

Teaching Contents:1) 2) 3)4) 5)

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Background Knowledge Exposition Detailed study of the Essay Organization Pattern Styles and Language Features Special Difficulties

张汉熙高级英语 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American

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)

张汉熙高级英语 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American

Background Knowledge1) About the author, James Baldwin, and his major works <http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jbaldwin.htm>

张汉熙高级英语 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American

2) Other Negro writers: Richard Wright: <http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/mswriters/dir/wright_richard/> Ralph Allison 3) Expatriates

张汉熙高级英语 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American

Expositionhttp://www.stanford.edu/~arnetha/expowri te/info.html

张汉熙高级英语 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American

Detailed study of The Essay

张汉熙高级英语 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American

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?

张汉熙高级英语 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American

Part One: Para.1-9Mainly focus on what Baldwin, as an American Negro have found out in Europe.

张汉熙高级英语 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American

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

张汉熙高级英语 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American

Why does the author leave America?

张汉熙高级英语 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American

1) afraid of being unable to live through all the furious struggle brought by racial discrimination in America; 2) wanted to prevent himself from becoming merely a Negro; or even, merely a Negro writer. 3) wants to find out in what way he could make use of his special experience to bring him closer to other people instead of driving him farther apart from them;

张汉熙高级英语 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American

Question: What is the "fury of the color problem"? (Line2) It means the furious struggle brought by racial discrimination in America.

张汉熙高级英语 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American

Para. 3-8:The experience in Europe exerts a great impact on Baldwin. There He realized that: