高级英语教案Book1 Unit4.docx

1、高级英语教案 Book1 Unit4Unit Four Everyday Use for Your GrandmaTeaching Periods: 8Teaching Object:English majors of junior year Teaching AimsTo enable students to get better understanding of the textTo help students learn to use new words and useful expressions in the textTo enable students to learn to pa

2、raphrase some complicated sentencesTo enable students to learn the use of rhetoric devices in the textTo help students appreciate the techniques of short story writingTo enrich students knowledge of American Black culture Teaching Focus: Cultural InformationLanguage points and expressionsThe theme o

3、f the storyFigures of speechTeaching Difficulties: Appreciation of English short story writing Paraphrasing some sentences Identifying figures of speech Probing the theme of the story Teaching ProceduresBackground informationQuestions to ponderStylistic analysisDetailed study of the text Rhetorical

4、devices and effective writing skillsExercise Time Allocation: 8 periods, 360minutesBackground information (45 minutes)Intensive study of the text (225 minutes)Exercise (90 minutes)I. Background information1. About the authorAlice Walker (1944-), poet, novelist and essayist.Life career:was born into

5、a poor rural family in Eatonton, Georgia. Also, she is a vegetarian, gardener, worldtraveler and spiritual explorer. Lost sight of one eye by accident at eightValedictorian (毕业典礼致告别辞者) of her class in high school Entered Spelman, a college for black women in Atlanta, GeorgiaTransferred to Sarah Lawr

6、ence College in New York after two years at SpelmanTraveled to Africa as an exchange student during junior year Worked in the Welfare Department in New York City after graduationActive in the Civil Rights Movement, the womens movement, the anti-apartheid movement, the anti-nuclear and the environmen

7、tal movement and the movement to protect indigenous people.Started her own publishing company in 1984Her writing career began with the publication of a volume of poetry in 1968, which was followed by a number of novels, short stories, critical essays and more poetry. Now she is regarded as one of th

8、e most prominent writers in American literature and a most forceful representative of womens literature and black literature. Literature achievements: Volumes of poetry: Once (1968), Revolutionary Petunias and other Poems (1973) Biography: A Biography of Langston Hughes (1973) Collections of short s

9、tories: Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973) Novels: The third Life of Grange Copeland (1970), Meridian (1977), The Color Purple (1982), The Temple of My Familiar (1989), By the Fathers Smile (1998)Background informationOf all the works, the most significant novel is The Color Purple (198

10、2), which won all the three major book awards in Americathe Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The novel was an instant bestseller and made into an equally successful movie in 1985. Her early poems, novels and short stories dealt with themes familiar

11、to readers of her later works: rape, violence, isolation, troubled relationships, multi-generational perspectives, sexism and racism. Her works are known for the portrayals of the African American womans life. She depicts vividly the sexism, racism and poverty that make that life often a struggle. B

12、ut she also portrays as part of that life, the strengths of family, community, self-worth, and spirituality. Many of her novels depict women in other periods of history than our own. Alice Walker is at her best when portraying people living in the rural areas. As a black writer, she is particularly

13、interested in examining the relationships among the blacks themselves.She continues not only to write, but to be active in environmental, feminist/womanist causes, and issues of economic justice. 2. The Black Power MovementBlack Power was a political movement that arose in the middle 1960s, that str

14、ove to express a new racial consciousness among Blacks in the United States. The movement stemmed from the earlier civil rights movements. It represented racial dignity and self reliance (i.e. freedom from white authority in both economic and political arenas). Some African Americans sought cultural

15、 heritage and history and the true roots of black identity as their part of the movement. Background information3. About the text“Everyday Use” (1973) is included in the Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, 2nd Edition, 1981. “Everyday Use”, one of the best-written short stories by Alice Walker, descr

16、ibes three women. The mother is a working woman without much education, but not without intelligence or perception. The two daughters form a sharp contrast in every conceivable way: appearance, character, personal experiences, etc. The story reaches its climax at the moment when Dee, the elder daugh

17、ter, wants the old quilts only to be refused flatly by the mother, who intends to give them to Maggie, the younger one. The old quilts, made from pieces of clothes worn by grand- and great-grand-parents and stitched by Grandmas hand, are clearly a symbol of the cultural heritage of the black people.

18、 Their different feelings about the quilts reveal their different attitudes towards their heritage as blacks. II. Questions to ponder:1.What is implied by the subtitle “ for your grandmama”?2.What kind of woman is the mother? What kind of girl is Maggie & Dee? Describe the three characters in your o

19、wn words.3.Why do you think colored people asked fewer questions in 1927? Questions to ponder4.What is the mothers feeling toward Dee? How is it changed in the course of the story?5. Why did Dee want the quilt so much?6. Why did Maggie want the quilt?7. What did the old quilts stand for?Questions to

20、 ponder:1.What is implied by the subtitle “ for your grandmama”? Its implied that the story is written in honor of the grandma mentioned in it and that the ordinary old thing may be something precious for the young. 2. Describe the three characters in your own words: Mother: a working black woman wi

21、thout much education, large, big-boned woman with rough hands, with intelligence and perceptionThe two daughters form a sharp contrast in every conceivable way: appearance, character, personal experiences, etc.Maggie: innocent, timid, kind-hearted girl, homely and ashamed, burn scars down her arms a

22、nd legs, less-educated, lack self-confidenceDee: beautiful, well-educated, snobbish, intelligent, capable, vanity , wants nice things, egotism, want to get valuable heritages of the fam3.Why do you think colored people asked fewer questions in 1927? Because they were more seriously looked down upon

23、by white men at that time, and they were not as awaken as they are today.4.What is the mothers feeling toward Dee? How is it changed in the course of the story? At first the mother liked Dee because of her beauty, taste, and education. But with the development of the story, her love was transferred

24、to a dislike because of Dees egotism, which was obviously revealed when she insisted on taking the quilts while her sister Maggie gave up keeping it willingly to satisfy her desire. 5. Why did Dee want the quilt so much? for decoration6. Why did Maggie want the quilt? remember her grandma7. What did

25、 the old quilts stand for?The old quilts, made from pieces of clothes worn by grand-and great-grand-parents and stitched by Grandmas hand, are clearly a symbol of the cultural heritage of the black people. Their different feelings about the quilts reveal their different attitudes towards their herit

26、age as blacks.III. Stylistic analysis1. Type of literature: a short story plot, character, point of view, setting, climax, theme and the methods to develop the theme2. Organization: introduction development climax conclusion Plot: Dees coming back to fetch Grandmas everyday use (especially the old q

27、uilts) and her changed attitude toward them.3. Characters:1) Dee (Wangero) a round character fashionable, rebellious, strong-minded and ill-tempered, a sense of vanity a symbol of the modern black women superficial love of black tradition2) Maggie a flat character docile, timid, shy, good-tempered,

28、kind-hearted and unselfish, a strong sense of inferiority inheritor of black culture, genuine love of black tradition a symbol of the tradition black weak womenText analysis3) “I” (Mama/ Mrs Johnson) a flat character uneducated but sensible physically strong but spiritually weak, a sense of inferior

29、ity cherish “grandmas everyday use” a symbol of the black working women: the majority of black women4)Asalamalakim (Hakim-a-barber) a flat character a black Muslim boy a symbol of another kind of African culturePoint of view: the first-person narratorSetting: Place “my courtyard” Time in the middle

30、of 1960sclimax Dee wanted to take away the old quilts but “I” took them back and gave them to MaggTheme: the relationship among the three black women and their different attitudes towards the old quilts how to deal with the black traditional culture.Methods: flashback, foreshadowing, contrastStructu

31、e of the Text:Part I Preparation Part II Mothers recallPart III Meeting (Climax)Part PartingIV. Detailed study of the text:1. wavy: having regular curvesA wavy line has a series of regular curves along it.The wavy lines are meant to represent water.Here in the text the word describes the marks in wa

32、vy patterns on the clay ground left by the broom. 2. An extended living room: an enlarged living room by a new addition to the original space. Extended means prolonged, continued; enlarged in influence, meaning, scope, etc. e.g. extended care: nursing care provided for a limited time after a hospital stay extended family: a group