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Lesson 11 An Iowa Christmas

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Teaching objectives The information about the author Paul Engle Understanding the boarder meaning of Christmas The narrative structure of this essay Text Appreciation: organization; topic sentence; expression---onomatopoeia The harmony between nature and people

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Warm-up

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1. How much do you know about Christmas? 2. What are the differences between the traditional way of celebrating the Christmas and the modern one? 3. Today, many young people prefer Christmas to Chinese traditional festival—Spring Festival. Many people believe it is wrong for Chinese people to celebrate Christmas because we are not Christians. What s your opinion?

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Christmas

meaning

date

influence

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Christmas

The word "Christmas" is a combination of the words "Christ" and "Mass ". The word "Mass" means death and was coined originally by the Roman Catholic Church, and belongs exclusively to the church of Rome. The ritual of the Mass involves the death of Christ, and the distribution of the "Host", a word taken from the Latin word "hostiall" meaning victim! Christmas in our day is a collection of traditions and practices taken from many cultures and nations.

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Christmas

date The date of December 25th comes from Rome and was a celebration of the Italic god, Saturn(土星), and the rebirth of the sun god. This was done long before the birth of Jesus. It was noted by the pre-Christian Romans and other pagans, that daylight began to increase after December 22nd, when they assumed that the sun god died.

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Christmas

meaning To honor the Lord Jesus Christ To sing the Christmas carolsReligious

To extend blessings to the beloved ones To send season greetings to long-lost friends To donate to the poor To express goodwill and gratefulness

Secular

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It has become a worldwide celebrated holiday.

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Jesus Christ Mary & Joseph Bethlehem, near Jerusalem 3 wise men; shepherds Salvation, redemption Sinners

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The birth of Jesus Christ

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The visit of the Magi

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Mary, a virgin, was living in Galilee ['ɡæl li]加利利(巴 勒斯坦北部一多山地区 of Nazareth (巴勒斯坦地区北部古城)拿 撒勒 and was engaged to be married to Joseph, a Jewish carpenter. An angel visited her and explained to her that she would conceive[k n'si:v] 怀孕 a son by the power of the Holy Spirit. She would carry and give birth to this child and she would name him Jesus [' i:z s] .

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When Mary told Joseph she was pregnant, he had every right to feel disgraced. He knew the child was not his own, and Mary's apparent unfaithfulness carried a grave social stigma. Joseph not only had the right to divorce Mary, under Jewish law she could be put to death by stoning. Although Joseph's initial reaction was to break the engagement, the appropriate thing for a righteous man to do, he treated Mary with extreme kindness. He did not want to cause her further shame, so

he decided to act quietly. But God sent an angel to Joseph in a dream to verify Mary's story and reassure him that his marriage to her was God's will. The angel explained that the child within Mary was conceived by the Holy Spirit, that his name would be Jesus and that means God with us.

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When Joseph woke from his dream, he willingly obeyed God and took Mary home to be his wife, in spite of the public humiliation he would face. At that time, Caesar Augustus decreed that a census be taken, and every person in the entire Roman world had to go to his own town to register. Joseph, being of the line of David, was required to go to Bethlehem to register with Mary. While in Bethlehem, Mary gave birth to Jesus. Probably due to the census, the inn was too crowded, and Mary gave birth in a crude stable. She wrapped the baby in cloths and placed him in a manger.