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1、高级英语教案Id Rather Be Black Than FemaleBy Shirly Chisholm I. Teaching Aims: 1. To get the students to have a better understanding of the fact that the sexual discrimination is more serious than the racial one.2. To get the students to master all the key language points in this text.3. To get the studen

2、ts to be familiar with the writing style of political articles.II. Teaching Periods: 4III. Teaching Contents:1. Introduction of the background2. Detailed study of the text3. Topic Discussion4. Oral exercises5. HomeworkVI. Teaching Steps1. Background information about the authorShirleyAnita Chisholm

3、(1924-2005) was an American political figure who served in the House of Representatives from 1969 to 1983, representing New Yorks 12th Congressional District. She was the first African-American woman to serve as a congressional representative in the United States. Chisholm was a member of the Democr

4、atic Party. She unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic nomination for presidency in 1972. During her colorful and controversial career, Chisholm was renowned for her political liberalism and her advocacy of rights and equality for the underprivileged people, such as African-Americans, the poverty-str

5、icken, and women.Early life and career Shirley Chisholm was born in 1924 in Brooklyn, New York. She obtained early education in Barbados, her parents homeland, and later attended New York public schools.1 She obtained her bachelors degree at Brooklyn College, and, a masters degree at Columbia Univer

6、sity in elementary education. She taught at a nursery school and later became the director of Hamilton-Madison Child Care Center in New York City. During her career in education she advocated for decentralization of policies on schools. She served in the New York state legislature from 1964 until he

7、r election to the U.S. Congress in 1968.Congressional career Chisholm ran for Congress in 1968 on the Democratic ticket with the slogan unbought and unbossed. Her opponent from the Republican Party was James L. Farmer, the famous civil rights leader and founder of Congress of Racial Equality. Despit

8、e that Farmer had the endorsement of Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Chisholm won the election and was re-elected six times. Her election was significant not only because it was the first time an African-American woman to be elected to Congress, but her campaign was noted for targeting the female const

9、ituency.In Congress, she was known for her outspokenness and uncompromising style. She focused on issues such as poverty, civil rights, and womens rights. When the Congressional Black Caucus（骨干会议、秘密预备会议）was founded in 1969, she was one of the founding members. In 1970, she authored a child care bill

10、. The bill passed the House and the Senate, but was vetoed by President Richard Nixon, who called it the Sovietization of American children She supported the Equal Rights Amendment and legalized abortion.In the area of national security and foreign policy, Chisholm worked for the revocation of Inter

11、nal Security Act of 1950.7 She opposed the American involvement in the Vietnam War and the expansion of weapon developments. During the Jimmy Carter administration, she called for better treatment of Haitian refugees.Presidential bid She entered the bid for Democratic nomination for presidency in 19

12、72 election, becoming the first African-American woman to run for president. However, she only obtained 152 votes from the delegates in the Democratic convention and the nomination was won by George McGovern, a Senator from South Dakota, who went to lose in the general election to then-President Ric

13、hard Nixon. Even herself admitted that her presidential bid was only for symbolic reasons.In his presidential campaign, she highlighted her efforts in Congress to introduce day care legislations, to establish a minimum annual income for families, to bring back the troops from Vietnam, and her record

14、 against installation of missiles such as MIRV (multiple independently-targeted reentry vehicles) and ABM (antiballistic missile反弹道导弹). In the campaign brochure she promised reforms and styled her presidential bid as a dynamic force for responsible change. She also denounced（痛斥、斥责）the influence of s

15、pecial interests in American politics.During her 1972 campaign she surprised the nation by visiting the famous segregationist governor of Alabama and presidential candidate George Wallace in the hospital after he survived an assassination attempt. In return, Wallace helped to convince Southerners to

16、 support the extension of federal minimum wages.Later life, death and beyond Chisholm did not run for re-election in 1982, and retired from Congress. After retirement she resumed her career in education, teaching politics and womens studies at Mount Holyoke College from 1983 to 1987. In 1985 she was

17、 a visiting scholar at Spelman College. In 1984 and 1988, she campaigned for Jesse Jackson for the presidential elections. In 1993, then-President Bill Clinton nominated her to the ambassadorship to Jamaica, but she could not serve due to poor health. In the same year she was inducted into the Natio

18、nal Womens Hall of Fame. Chisholm died in Florida in 2005.She had married twice in her life. Her first husband, Conrad Q. Chisholm, a Jamaican private investigator, whom she married in 1949, divorced her in 1977.14 She married Arthur Hardwick, Jr. in 1978. Hardwick died in 1986. During her lifetime

19、Chisholm did not have any children.Shortly after Chisholms death, in February 2005, a documentary film titled Chisholm 72: Unbought & Unbossed, documenting her 1972 presidential bid, was premiered（首次展出）on PBS.Barbara Lee, an African-American woman who was involved in Chisholms presidential campaign

20、in northern California, later also became a member of the House of Representatives.2. Pre-reading Questions1) What issues are being discussed in this article? Two issues are involved in the article: racial and sexual discrimination. While many Americans are now considering racial discrimination agai

21、nst the blacks, not many are really ready to admit that there is still prejudice against women. The twentieth century is still a mans world. Indeed, no country can boast that its women enjoy full equality with men. In many so-called “free and democratic countries”, the equality is largely nominal.2)

22、 What is the most important right for women to improve their social status? Sexual discrimination has a longer history than racial discrimination, and is therefore more deep-rooted in the minds of millions of people. It has now been accepted as axiomatic that equal rights to vote and to be elected t

23、o national office are fundamental to womens status. Equality of franchise with men was fought for ardently and for a long time by a dedicated minority against heavy resistance on the part of the “established”. By 1971, of the 129 countries that were members of the UN or the specialized agencies or w

24、ere parties to the status of the international Court of Justice, all but eight allowed women to vote in all elections and to be eligible for election on the same basis with men. Equal voting rights for women came to the United States as late as 1920. The right to vote is an essential means of influe

25、ncing the distribution of political power, but the percentage of women elected as members of congress is only about 2% in the United States House of Representatives. After more than half a century of womens suffrage, the number of women in high positions of political power and influence in the US is

26、 still small enough for them to be known by name. The author, Shirley Chisholm, being black and female at the same time, had to face up to the double prejudice against her. So she says, “Being the first black woman elected to Congress has made me some kind of phenomenon.” II. Detailed Study of the T

27、extGeneral Remarks:The article discusses two major social problems in the US-racial discrimination and womens rights in a mans world. Written in the 1970s, the text tells us what is happening in the US today. As a black woman elected to Congress, Shirley Chisholm here presents a true picture of the

28、two major social problems in the US from her personal experience. The article aims at raising the publics awareness of sexual inequality for women. The author thinks it is harder to eliminate the prejudice against women, because women in the US are much more brainwashed and content with their roles

29、as second-class citizens that blacks ever were. She calls upon the American women to realize the qualities they naturally have or have had to develop because of their suppression by men. She holds that the country needs womens idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.P

30、ara.1General remarks:This paragraph introduces the topic and theme of the passage, that is the widespread and yet seemingly unnoticed sexual discrimination against women, which is even more serious than racial discrimination against blacks.Q1: Why does the author think “being the first black woman e

31、lected to Congress has made me some kind of phenomenon”? Because the author is both black and female, which are the two handicaps to the road to ones political career?1. Phenomenon: (1) a fact, event, type of behavior, etc. that exists and can be experienced by the senses, esp. one that is unusual a

32、nd / or of scientific interest;e.g. Magnetism is a natural phenomenon.Snow in Egypt is an almost unknown phenomenon International terrorism is not just a recent phenomenon.(2) a very unusual person, thing, event, etc.e.g. Harrys rapid success made him a phenomenon in the business world. A child who can play piano at the age of 2 would be called a phenomenon.2. made me some kind of phenomenon: made me something unusual.3. Being the first black woman elected to Congress has made me some kind of phenomenon:Because I am the first black woman to be e