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1、Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesEnglish Song Abraham,Martin&John Text Prediction Background InformationSupplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Ri

2、ghts HeroesEnglish Song Abraham,Martin&John Read the Script of the SongPeople in the SongThink While ListeningSupplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesBackground Information Timeline of Slavery The Underground Railroad Ma

3、p Reading Uncle Toms Cabin Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesThink While ListeningListen to the song Abraham,Martin&John,sung by Dion,and think about the following questions.1.A few names are mentioned in this song

4、.Can you make out who these people are?They are Abraham Lincoln,John F.Kennedy,Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy.Clues:They are all Americans.All died young.They freed a lot of people.2.Do you know why they all died young?3.Whom did they free?Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlob

5、al ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesAbraham,Martin&JohnHas anybody here,Seen my old friend Abraham?Can you tell me,where hes gone?He freed a lot of people,But it seems the good they die young,You know,I just looked around,And hes gone.Anybody here,Seen my old friend Joh

6、n?Can you tell me,where hes gone?Read the Script of the SongSupplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesHe freed a lot of people,But it seems the good they young,I just looked around,And hes gone.Anybody here,Seen my old fri

7、end Martin?Can you tell me,where hes gone?He freed a lot of people,But it seems the good they die young,I just looked around,And hes gone.Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesDidnt you love the things that they stood

8、for?Didnt they try to find some good for you and me?And well be free,Someday soon its gonna be one day.Anybody here,Seen my old friend Bobby?Can you tell me,where hes gone?I thought I saw him walkin up over the hill,With Abraham,Martin and John.Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGloba

9、l ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes1.Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the US.As President,he issued The Emancipation Proclamation(解放黑人奴隶宣言解放黑人奴隶宣言)that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy(南部邦联南部邦联).People in the Song D

10、uring the Civil War Lincoln stated most movingly in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg:“that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation,under God,shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people,by the people,for the people,shal

11、l not perish from the earth.”Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes On April 14,1865,Lincoln was assassinated at Fords Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth,an actor,who somehow thought he was helping the South.Th

12、e opposite was the result,for with Lincolns death,the possibility of peace died.Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesOn November 22,1963,when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office,John F.Kennedy was kil

13、led by an assassins bullets as his motorcade(汽车队汽车队)wound through Dallas,Texas.Kennedy was the youngest man elected President;he was the youngest to die.2.John F.Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the thirty-fifth president of the US.In his Inaugural Address(就职演说就职演说)he said:“Ask not what your coun

14、try can do for you ask what you can do for your country.”As President,he took vigorous action in the cause of equal rights,calling for new civil rights legislation.Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes Dr.King was a p

15、ivotal(关键关键)figure in the Civil Rights Movement.His lectures and dialogues stirred(激起激起)the concern and sparked the conscience of a generation.In one of his speeches,he said,“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged judged by the color of their

16、 skin,but by the content of their character.I have a dream today.I have a dream that.one day right there in Alabama,little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with the little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.I have a dream today.”3.Martin Luther King Supplementary

17、 ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes Dr.King was shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis,Tennessee on April 4,1968.Dr.King was in Memphis to help lead sanitation workers in a protest against low wages

18、and intolerable working conditions.Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesKennedy enforced a Federal court order admitting the first African American student James Meredith to the University of Mississippi.The riot(暴动暴动

19、)that had followed Merediths registration(注册注册)had left two dead and hundreds injured.Robert Kennedy saw voting as the key4.Bobby Kennedy Bobby Kennedy or Robert F.Kennedy,was the brother of President John F.Kennedy.He was appointed attorney general(司法部长司法部长)of the United States in the early 1960s.I

20、n September 1962,Attorney GeneralSupplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroesto racial(种族的种族的)justice(正义正义)and collaborated(合作合作)with President Kennedy when he proposed the most far-reaching civil rights statute since Recons

21、truction,The Civil Rights Act of 1964,passed after President Kennedy was slain on November 22,1963.Robert Francis Kennedy was slain on June 5,1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles,California.He was 42 years old.Although his life was cut short,Robert Kennedys vision and ideals live on today.Sup

22、plementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes1.What is an underground railroad in the normal sense?2.What is this underground railroad special for?3.Can you imagine what this railroad was built for?Text Prediction Read the intro

23、ductory part of the text and think about the following questions.In 2004 a center in honor of the“underground railroad”opens in Cincinnati.The railroad was unusual.It sold no tickets and had no trains.Yet it carried thousands of passengers to the destination of their dreams.Supplementary ReadingAfte

24、r ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes4.What probably are the dreams of the passengers?5.What probably is the destination of their dreams?6.What is the text probably about?Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetaile

25、d ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes Map Reading Read the following three maps and answer the following questions.Click to see big picture.Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes1.Find the following states:

26、Alabama,Arkansas,Florida,Georgia,Louisiana,Mississippi,North Carolina,South Carolina,Tennessee,Texas,Virginia.2.Which states are most densely populated with slaves?Which part do these states belong to,the Northern States or the Southern States?3.Where did most slaves want to go?Supplementary Reading

27、After ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesSupplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesSupplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingB

28、efore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesSupplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesTimeline of Slavery1619 Slaves in VirginiaAfricans brought to Jamestown are the first slaves imported into Britains North American colonies.1

29、705 Slaves as PropertyDescribing slaves as real estate,Virginia lawmakers allowed owners to bequeath their slaves.The same law allowed masters to“kill and destroy”runaways.Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes1775 Ame

30、rican Revolution BeganBattles at the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord on April 19 sparked the war for American independence from Britain.1776 Declaration of IndependenceThe Continental Congress asserted“that these United Colonies are,and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States”.

31、Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes1783 American Revolution EndedBritain and the infant United States signed the Peace of Paris treaty.1808 United States Banned Slave TradeImporting African slaves was outlawed,but s

32、muggling continued.1860 Abraham Lincoln ElectedAbraham Lincoln of Illinois became the first Republican to win the United States Presidency.Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes18611865 United States Civil WarFour year

33、s of brutal conflict claimed 623,000 lives.1863 The Emancipation ProclamationPresident Abraham Lincoln decreed that all slaves in rebel territory were free on January 1,1863.1865 Slavery AbolishedThe 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution outlawed slavery.Supplementary ReadingAfter Reading

34、Detailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes The Underground Railroad was not underground.Because escaping slaves and the people who helped them were technically breaking the law,they had to stay out of sight.They went“underground”in terms of concealing thei

35、r actions.Sometimes they even hid in unusual places.Many clever and creative ideas helped slaves during their escape.When abolitionist(废奴主义者废奴主义者)John Fairfield needed to sneak(偷偷摸摸地进行偷偷摸摸地进行)28 slaves over the roads near Cincinnati,he hired a hearse(灵车灵车)and disguised the group as a funeral process

36、ion.The Underground Railroad1.General InformationSupplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes Henry“Box”Brown,a slave,had himself shipped from Richmond to Philadelphia in a wooden box.2.Routes to Freedom The routes the slave

37、s traveled appear in this map.The trip is 560 miles(900 kilometers)long.A strong,lucky runaway might have made it to freedom in two months.For others,especially in bad weather,the trek(跋涉跋涉)might have lasted a year.Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefor

38、e ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesSupplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesSupplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesSupplementary ReadingAfte

39、r ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes Uncle Toms Cabin,written by Harriet Beecher Stowe,is one of the most famous and popular pieces of Civil War literature.Drawn from selected pieces of real life anecdotes,Uncle Toms Cabin was a book that dr

40、ew many people into the fight over the institution of slavery.Northerners hailed(欢呼欢呼)the book,while southern slaveholders abhorred it.Uncle Toms Cabin Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesTrue or FalsePart Division of the Text Furth

41、er UnderstandingSupplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesFurther UnderstandingText Analysis Questions and AnswersSupplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesTrue or False1.Just

42、like Uncle Tom in Uncle Toms Cabin,Josiah Henson was a long-suffering slave who was unwilling to stand up for himself.FAccording to Barbara Carter,Josiah Henson was a man of principle and totally different from Uncle Tom.()2.All the men and women who forged the Underground Railroad were blacks.FSome

43、 whites were driven by religious convictions and took part in this movement.()Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes3.These railroad conductors were frequently faced with death threats and warnings from the local government.T()4.Many

44、fugitives chose Canada as their primary destination because slavery had been abolished there.T()Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes Part Division of the TextPartsPara(s)Main Ideas115 It is high time to honor the heroes who helped l

45、iberate slaves by forging the Underground Railroad in the early civil-rights struggles in America.2623By citing examples the author praises the exploits of civil-rights heroes who helped slaves travel the Underground Railroad to freedom.Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal Readin

46、gBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesQuestions and AnswersUncle Tom was an enduring slave and unwilling to struggle for himself,while Josiah Henson did what he believed was right and took an active part in the anti-slavery movement.1.Both Josiah Henson and Uncle Tom were slaves.But in the eyes o

47、f Barbara Carter,they were different.In what way was Josiah Henson different from Uncle Tom?Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesIn the Bible,Moses was the leader who brought the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt and led them to the

48、 Promised Land.Just like Moses,Henson helped hundreds of slaves escape to Canada and liberty,so he was called an African-American Moses.2.Why was Henson called an African-American Moses?The Underground Railroad was a secret web of escape routes and safe houses.Many men and women,including both the b

49、lacks and whites,together forged it.3.What was the Underground Railroad?Who forged it?Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesBecause most of them remain too little remembered and their exploits are still largely unsung.4.Why does the a

50、uthor want to tell the readers the stories of the heroes of the Underground Railroad?Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesText Analysis In this part,the author tells the stories of three civil-rights heroes.Who are they?Give the main

51、 idea of each story.StoriesMain Ideas1After winning his own freedom from slavery,John Parker helped other slaves escape north to Canada to get freedom.Heroes Para(s)John Parker 610 Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights HeroesStoriesMain Ide

52、as3Supported by a strong religious conviction,the white man Levi Coffin helped black slaves escape at huge risk to himself.Heroes Para(s)Josiah Henson 1623 2Levi Coffin 1115 By traveling the Underground Railroad,Josiah Henson reached his destination and became free at last.Supplementary ReadingAfter

53、 ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes A gentle breeze swept the Canadian plains as I stepped outside the small two-story house.Alongside me was a slender woman in a black dress,my guide back to a time when the surrounding settlement in Dresden,Ontario,was hom

54、e to a hero in American history.As we walked toward a plain gray church,Barbara Carter spokeproudly of her great-great-grandfather,Josiah Henson.“He was confident that the Creator intended all men to be created equal.And he never gave up struggling for that freedom.”THE FREEDOM GIVERSFergus M.Bordew

55、ichSupplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes Carters devotion to her ancestor is about more than personal pride:it is about family honor.For Josiah Henson has lived on through the character in American fiction that he helped inspire:Uncl

56、e Tom,the long-suffering slave in Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin.Ironically,that character has come to symbolize everything Henson was not.A racial sellout unwilling to stand up for himself?Carter gets angry at the thought.“Josiah Henson was a man of principle,”she said firmly.Supplementary

57、 ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes I had traveled here to Hensons last home now a historic site that Carter formerly directed to learn more about a man who was,in many ways,an African-American Moses.After winning his own freedom from slavery,H

58、enson secretly helped hundreds of other slaves to escape north to Canada and liberty.Many settled here in Dresden with him.Yet this stop was only part of a much larger mission for me.Josiah Henson is but one name on a long list of courageous men and women who together forged the Underground Railroad

59、,a secret web of escape routes and safe houses that they used to liberate slaves from the American South.Between 1820 and 1860,as many as 100,000 slaves traveled the Railroad to freedom.Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes In Octobe

60、r 2000,President Clinton authorized$16 million for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to honor this first great civil-rights struggle in the U.S.The center is scheduled to open in 2004 in Cincinnati.And its about time.For the heroes of the Underground Railroad remain too little remembe

61、red,their exploits still largely unsung.I was intent on telling their stories.Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes John Parker tensed when he heard the soft knock.Peering out his door into the night,he recognized the face of a trust

62、ed neighbor.“Theres a party of escaped slaves hiding in the woodsin Kentucky,twenty miles from the river,”the man whispered urgently.Parker didnt hesitate.“Ill go,”he said,pushing a pair of pistols into his pockets.Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2

63、Civil-Rights Heroes Born a slave two decades before,in the 1820s,Parker had been taken from his mother at age eight and forced to walk in chains from Virginia to Alabama,where he was sold on the slave market.Determined to live free someday,he managed to get trained in iron molding.Eventually he save

64、d enough money working at this trade on the side to buy his freedom.Now,by day,Parker worked in an iron foundry in the Ohio port of Ripley.By night he was a“conductor”on the Underground Railroad,helping people slip by the slave hunters.In Kentucky,where he was now headed,there was a$1000 reward for

65、his capture,dead or alive.Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes Crossing the Ohio River on that chilly night,Parker found ten fugitives frozen with fear.“Get your bundles and follow me,”he told them,leading the eight men and two wome

66、n toward the river.They had almost reached shore Parker saw a small boat and,with a shout,pushed the escaping slaves into it.There was room for all but two.As the boat slid across the river,Parker watched helplessly as the pursuers closed in around the men he was forced to leave behind.shore when a watchman spotted them and raced off to spread the news.Supplementary ReadingAfter ReadingDetailed ReadingGlobal ReadingBefore ReadingUnit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes The others made it to the Ohio shore,whe