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1、2 20 key phrases and their translations3 the way of analyzing the usage of metaphor in this lesson4 the way of dividing the lesson 5 the skills of translation in ten sentences6 the main idea stated by the authorThe teaching of this lesson is divided into five partsPart One: Background Information（in

2、 one period）In this part, the teacher and the students are working together to offer as much information as possible in one period. Information comes in all directions. In this way , views of the students can be broadened and versions of the world can be easily seen. We follow two procedures:I: The

3、teacher gives a brief introduction about the background information and guides the students to the text by asking some questions.Toni Morrison was born in Ohio in 1931. This text is taken from her first novel The Bluest Eye （1970）.This novel is divided into four parts which were named after four sea

4、sons: autumn（ she went into the society with a wish that she would have the bluest eyes some day; winter（she was suffering parents beating, classmates scorn and adults coldness and was raped by her father）; spring（she was pregnant）; summer（ she gave birth to a baby who was dead when she was 13）. In

5、the end she went into insanity.Seasons-nature-law-inevitableDesire for the bluest eye: symbolize black peoples confusion and dislocation of values when their own culture are restrained and restricted.Centre on eye : symbolize how black people observe and perceive the white peoples worldHer longing f

6、or eye: symbolize that she wanted to accept white peoples culture and wanted to observe the world with their eyesHer theme: history, destiny and spirit, or mental worldThe people in todays lesson :Louis and his wife, Geraldine with a son named Junior, PecolaII: Some students are asked to introduce s

7、ome important notes because they have got some relevant information from the internet to help understand the lesson.1 About the author:Present the picture downloaded from the internet and try to make the author impressive in the students minds.2 brown girls3 Lifebuoy soap, Cashmere Bouquet talc, Jer

8、gens Lotion, Dixie Peach4 Washington Irving SchoolPart Two Detailed Study of the Text（in six periods）In this part, the teacher finishes the explanation of words, sentences, grammar in six periods.Approaches used in this part:1 Raising questions to make the students think differently;2 Explaining som

9、e points;3 Discussing some topics in pairs or with the teacher4 Communicating with the students by repeating some words, some sentences or some explanations.5 Asking volunteers to read each paragraph or asking them to read together.6 Asking them to summarize the main idea in each paragraph and in ea

10、ch section separately7 Asking them to seek some transitional paragraphs or sentences8 Asking them to analyze the rhetorical speeches used in some sentences and master the skills used in organizing the ideas.9 Asking them to paraphrase as many sentences as possible10 Making them pay attention to the

11、special usages of some common wordsThe Bluest Eye（Excerpts）Additional Material1 About the AuthorToni Morrison has a unique status InternetAmerican literature. She is the winner of the National Book Critic Circle Award（1977）,the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction（1988） and many other literary awards. She was

12、 granted the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993,thus becoming the first African-American writer to receive this honor. She has published 7 novels, a musical. A play, and a collection of critical essays. Her devoted readers are found all over the world, and they include both sexes and all colors, age

13、s and creeds. A member of both the National Council on the Arts and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Morrison has actively used her influence to encourage the publication of other African-American writers.Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Woodford InternetLorain, Ohio Inter

14、net1931.She came from a family of sharecroppers, who moved from the southern racism. At the age of 18 Morrison went to Washington D.C. to attend Howard University, the most distinguished black college InternetAmerica, where she became interested InternetThe stage and joined the Howard University Pla

15、yers. After she earned a B.A. in English from Howard she went to Cornell University for gradate studies in English literature. Upon receiving a M. A. from Cornell, she began her teaching career. From 1955 to 1957 she taught English at Texas Southern University, and from 1957 to 1964 she taught at Ho

16、ward. Internet1965, she became a senior editor at Random House, where she edited a number of African-American writers. Internet1958 she married Harold Morrison, a Jamaican architect and had two sons. In 1964 they divorced and she raised the two sons by herself. She began writing in 1962 Her first wo

17、rk was a short story, which would late develop into her first novel The Bluest Eye （1970）. It tells the story of a little black girl named Pocola Breedlove, who yearned to have the blue eyes of a white girl. She believes she will lead a happy life if only she has beautiful blue eyes.In 1971 Morrison

18、 resumed her teaching career, teaching English at University of New York, serving as a visiting professor at Yale from 1976 to 1978, at the State University of Yew York at Albany from 1984 to 1989. Since 1989 she has been teaching at Princeton University as a member of the program in African-America

19、n studies and of the creative writing department. Meanwhile she continued her writing. Her next novel, Saul（1974） examines the friendship between two black women Sulfa and Nell, and depicts how they have grown up together but taken different roads of life in their maturity. The novel won the Nationa

20、l Book Critic Award. The Song of Solomon, published in 1977, was a greater success than her previous novels. Set in Michigan in the early 1930s, the novel is narrated from a male point of view. In his efforts to recover his ancestors properties, a sack of gold, Milkman Dead rediscovers his racial ro

21、ots and cultural identity. The novel was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and it placed Toni Morrison in the first rank of American novelists. Tar Baby came out in 1981. Unlike her precious novels, this book has characters both black and white. By juxtaposing them in the central conflict of the p

22、lot, the author dramatizes the racial complexities that characterize the American cultural landscape. Published in 1987, Morrisons next work Beloved deals with slavery and infanticide. It was another triumph and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The protagonist Seethe has run away from s

23、lavery and is seeking refuge in Ohio. When the slave masters search for her, she kills her baby girl in order to save her from slavery she has just escaped. However, the ghost of the baby “Beloved”, a name written on her tombstone, comes back to hunt her. In Jazz （1992）, Joe, the unfaithful husband

24、of Violet, kills a girl he loves so much in a fit of passion. The fragmented narrative gradually unfolds, showing how and why this tragedy happens in Harlem, New York. Paradise （1998） is the most recent work by Ruby, a tiny all-black farming community in Oklahoma,and its ancestral feuds and financia

25、l quarrels.Morrisons novels are mostly set in black community in the thirties or forties, but they do not merely tell stories. When talking about the novel, she says, “it should be beautiful, and powerful, but it should also work. It should have something in it that suggests what the conflicts are,

26、what the problems are. But it need not solve those problems because it is not a case study, it is not a recipe. If anything I do, in the way of writing novels （or whatever I write）, isnt about the village or the community or about you, then it is not about anything. I am not interested in indulging

27、myself in some private, closed exercise of my imagination that fulfills only the obligation of my personal dreams-which is to say yes, the work must be political. It seems to me that the best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at t

28、he same time.”（“ Rooted ness: The Ancestor as Foundation”） The Nobel Prize presentation speech points out, “In her depictions of the world of the black people, in life as in legend, Toni Morrison has given the Afro-American people their history back, piece by piece.” Yet, at the same time, her work

29、is always symbolic of the shared human condition, transcending lines of gender, race, and class. The most enduring impression her novels leave is of “empathy, of compassion with ones fellow human beings”.About the Novel The Bluest EyePublished in 1970, the novel has its setting in black community in

30、 Lorain, in 1941, long before the Civil Rights Movement. In those days, blackness was synonymous with ugliness. The dominant white culture exercised its hegemony and dictated standards of beauty. Many black people accepted and internalized white values and developed self-contempt and self-hatred for

31、 themselves or other black people, making some of their own people victims and scapegoats. To overthrow white cultural hegemony and liberate themselves from oppression and self-oppression, the black people raised the political slogan in the 1960s:”Blcak is beautiful.”Morrisons novel The Bluest Eyes

32、depicts the pernicious psychological impact that the dominant white cultural values have had on black people.The story centers around the tragic life of a little black girl named Pocola Breedlove. The Breedlove are the poorest family of the town. They live in a storefront of an abandoned store. The place is so ugly that” visitors who drive to this tiny town wonder why it ha