大学英语（book3）active reading3.ppt

Navigation,Destination,Resources,Embarkation,Mapping,Learning how to analyze short stories Learning how the writer describes peoples characters and arranges the information,Song appreciation,Democrat,Capitol Hill,Great Lakes,Eulogy for Rosa Parks,Song appreciation,Active reading 1: Embarkation,More,Watch the video of the song: Love is color blind and talk about what message the song mainly conveys. Reference answer ,Song appreciation,Active reading 1: Embarkation,More,Sample The message the song mainly conveys is about the fight against racial discrimination. Racism has been existing for a long time and it has deeply hurt the feelings of non-whites. They have been suffering from the discrimination since they were young. “Love is color blind” is an appeal to all the people for concerted efforts in the fight against the racial discrimination. As long as people have love for each other regardless of the skin color, they can cross the color line and live in harmony.,Eulogy for Rosa Parks by Oprah Winfrey,Active reading 1: Embarkation,More,Listen to the eulogy given by the famous talk show host Oprah Winfrey for Rosa Parks and finish the following tasks.,1. What was Rosa Parks like in the mind of Oprah Winfrey when she was a child? Why did she think so?,2. What did Oprah Winfrey find about Rosa Parks after they really met? Did Rosa Parks look like what Oprah had imagined?,Task 1: Answer the following questions:,Task 2: Fill in the blanks with the appropriate information.,click,click,click,Active reading 1: Embarkation,More,Words and expressions,reverend (对牧师的尊称）尊敬的 choir 唱诗班 stalwart 坚定的 shield 防护物，盾 hold back 踌躇，阻止 esteem 把······看作，认为 petite 小的，细的 personification 化身 trajectory 轨道，轨线,Eulogy for Rosa Parks by Oprah Winfrey,Active reading 1: Embarkation,Back,Active reading 1: Embarkation,Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is an American television host, producer, and philanthropist (慈善家), best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history.,She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century and beyond, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was once the worlds only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.,Back,Active reading 1: Embarkation,More,Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist whom the US Congress later called the “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement.” On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger.,Active reading 1: Embarkation,Parks' action sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Parks' act of defiance became an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement and Parks became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including boycott leader Martin Luther King, Jr., helping to launch him to national prominence in the civil rights movement.,Back,Task 1 Answer the following questions,1. What was Rosa Parks like in the mind of Oprah Winfrey when she was a child? Why did she think so?,Active reading 1: Embarkation,When Oprah was a child, she thought that Rosa Parks must be really big, at least a hundred feet tall. She imagined her being stalwart, strong and carrying shield to hold back the white folks. She thought so because Rosa Parks, a colored woman, dared to refuse to give up her seat to the white man, which was unimaginable to a little black girl suffering from racial discrimination. Therefore, the only explanation she could give was that Rosa Parks must be physically strong enough to fight against the white man.,Back,Task 1 Answer the following questions,2. What did Oprah Winfrey find about Rosa Parks after they really met? Did Rosa Parks look like what Oprah had imagined?,Active reading 1: Embarkation,She was surprised to find that Rosa Parks was petite and delicate, the personification of grace and goodness. She was not like what Oprah had imagined at all. Therefore, Rosa Parks was not physically strong enough to fight against the white man. It was her firm belief that colored people should enjoy equal rights with the white men that supported her decision not to give up her seat.,Back,Task 2 Fill in the blanks with appropriate information,Active reading 1: Embarkation,More,And I'm here today to say a final thank you, Sister Rosa, for being a great woman who used your life to serve, to serve us all. That day that you refused to give up your seat on the bus, you, Sister Rosa, changed the of my life and the lives of so many other people in the world. I would not be standing here today, nor standing where I stand every day . I know that. I know that. I know that. I know that and I honor that. Had she not chosen to say, we shall not, we shall not be moved.,trajectory,had she not chosen to sit down,Task 2 Fill in the blanks with appropriate words,Active reading 1: Embarkation,So I thank you, again, Sister Rosa, for not only confronting the one white man whose seat you took, not only confronting the bus driver, not only for confronting the law but for confronting history; a history that for 400 years said that you were not even , certainly no _. I thank you for not moving. And in that moment when you resolved to stay in that seat, you and you gave us all back a piece of our own. I thank you for that. I thank you for . I often thought about what that took,worthy of a glance,consideration,reclaimed your humanity,acting without concern,Back,Active reading 1: Embarkation,More,Democrat,Listen to a brief introduction to the Democratic Party and Republican Party and finish the following tasks.,Active reading 1: Embarkation,More,Words and expressions,federalist: 联邦主义者 faction: 组织中的小派别，派系（尤指政治上的） Democratic-Republican Party: 民主共和党 Thomas Jefferson: 托马斯·杰斐逊，美国第三任总统 James Madison: 詹姆士·麦迪逊, 美国第四任总统 opponents: 对手，反对者 Abraham Lincoln: 第16任美国总统，是首位美国共和党籍总统，领导了美国南北战争,Democrat,Active reading 1: Embarkation,More,Republican Party,Democratic Party,I am a monkey, not a donkey!,Active reading 1: Embarkation,More,Democrat,Thomas Jefferson,James Madison,Thomas Jefferson and James Madison organized the Democratic-Republican Party. It split into competing factions, one of which became the modern Democratic Party.,Active reading 1: Embarkation,More,Democrat,Abraham Lincoln,Barack Obama,George Bush,Republican,Democrat,Bill Clinton,Active reading 1: Embarkation,Scripts,Back,Democrat,In the third paragraph of the reading passage, Senator Rogers is described as a Democrat who is pro-abortion, anti-corruption, pro-low carbon emissions and anti-capital punishment. Listen to the following passage about different beliefs of the Democrats and Republicans. Complete the following table with appropriate information and check what beliefs of the Democrats are consistent with those of Senator Rogers.,Active reading 1: Embarkation,More,Democrat,avoiding unnecessary environmental regulations,Active reading 1: Embarkation,Death penalty,Abortion,Discrimination,Environmental regulations,Governments role,Republicans beliefs,Democrats beliefs,More,active role,limited role, relying on private sectors,environmental regulations against pollution,anti-discrimination,heavy-handed anti-discrimination,legal,illegal,not a mandatory measure,necessary,pro-abortion,More,Active reading 1: Embarkation,Senator Rogers belief,Democrats belief,Democrat,Active reading 1: Embarkation,Back,Scripts,Capitol Hill,Capitol Hill, aside from being a metonym for the United States Congress, is the largest historic residential neighborhood in Washington D.C., stretching easterly in front of the United States Capitol along wide avenues. It is one of the oldest residential communities in Washington, and with roughly 35,000 people in just under two square miles, it is also one of the most densely populated.,Active reading 1: Embarkation,Great Lakes,The Great Lakes are a collection of freshwater lakes located in eastern North America, on the Canada United States border. Consisting of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, they form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by surface. They are sometimes referred to as the “Third Coast“ by some citizens of the United States. Because of their size, types of ecosystems, and large abundances of beaches and coastal wetlands along their coasts, some regard them as inland seas or as one sea.,Active reading 1: Embarkation,More,Look at the map of the Great Lakes and identify their locations while listening to the introduction.,Active reading 1: Embarkation,Back,Text organization,Text exploration,Text evaluation,Understanding the text,Interpreting,Critical thinking,Text Organization,Active reading 1: Navigation,Main Characters,More,Active reading 1: Navigation,In a famous restaurant Joannes on the 46th street in New York,On Christmas Eve,It is snowing heavily,When,Where,Setting,Back,Active reading 1: Navigation,Main Characters,(Para 2) Josh Lester: a smart, capable black lawyer in his early thirties.,(Para 3) Jo Rogers, a senior senator, well-known in the United States.,an appointment at Joannes,Introduction to Joannes (Para 4), a fancy restaurant with many well-known people,Back,Active reading 1: Navigation,The head waiter,Text,Text,Josh,Josh,Conflict Paragraph 5-18,Do you think the head waiter respects or disrespects Josh at the beginning?,Back,Active reading 1: Navigation,Climax,Jo. Rogers appears. She is respected by all the people. And the head waiter offers the change of the seat, but Rogers refuses it.,Which paragraphs are about the climax?,Paras 19-30.,Back,Active reading 1: Navigation,Ending,Senator Rogers and Josh leave the Joannes, refusing the head waiters offer to waive payment of the bill and his invitation to go to the Joannes again. (Paras 31-38),Back,Q1: Why does the writer highlight the fact that Joannes is a restaurant where many famous people have dinners in Para 4? What if the restaurant had been nearly empty when Josh arrived? Q2: What rhetoric device does the writer use in Para 18? What does the writer try to tell the readers in this Para? Q3: Why does the writer describe the weather both at the beginning and the end?,Work in pairs and discuss the following questions,Understanding the text,More,click,click,click,Understanding the text,Reference answer for Q1: The writer describes Joannes as a fancy restaurant with many famous people, which foreshadows how the head waiter will treat Josh, a nobody as well as a black. If the restaurant had been nearly empty, the story would have lost the drama of the head waiter not wanting to serve Josh. In an empty restaurant, there would be no problem to find a table or to be served.,Active reading 1: Navigation,Back,Understanding the text,Choose the rhetoric device used in paragraph 18: _ A) Simile B) Metaphor C) Personification D) Exaggeration,Active reading 1: Navigation,C,More,Understanding the text,Reference answer for Q2: First, the writer tells the readers how uncomfortable the seat offered by the head waiter is: close to the bathroom, right by a half-opened window so that Josh should bear the icy breeze. Moreover, the writer may imply that Josh feels cold not only due to the icy breeze, but also because of the cold treatment of the head waiter.,Active reading 1: Navigation,Back,Understanding the text,Reference answer for Q3: At the beginning of the story, “it was snowing heavily”, implying that something unpleasant would happen. But at the end of the story, “it had stopped snowing”, implying that the unpleasant thing had passed and the problem had been resolved. The writer describes the snow both at the beginning and the end so that the ending can be correlated with the beginning.,Active reading 1: Navigation,Back,Interpreting,Describing characters There are different ways in which writers can present a persons character. They can describe the character directly (for example, by using adjectives); they can tell us what the characters are thinking (for example, by reporting what they say, or, in the case of fiction, revealing their thoughts to the reader); or they can give the reader insights into the character by describing external appearances and actions.,Active reading 1: Navigation,More,Interpreting,Active reading 1: Navigation,The writer of the passage uses many concrete details to describe the characters. The reader gains access to the thoughts of the characters through these details.,For example:,More,Interpreting,Active reading 1: Navigation,Work in pairs and discuss the following questions,More,Interpreting,Active reading 1: Navigation,Find out how the writer describes the characters of the head waiter through the following questions.,More,Interpreting,Active reading 1: Navigation,More,Interpreting,Active reading 1: Navigation,More,Interpreting,Follow the above examples and work in pairs to analyze how the writer describes the characters of Senator Rogers and Josh through what they say and do.,Active reading 1: Navigation,Senator Rogers,In Para 23, when Senator Rogers passed though the crowded room, she gained respect from the diners.,When the head waiter offered a change of the seat, she said quietly rather than angrily. And she turned down the offer and insisted on paying the bill.,click,click,More,Interpreting,Active reading 1: Navigation,Josh,In Para 7, Josh was interrupted by the head waiter impolitely, but he was not angry and waited until the head waiter finished greeting other guests.,When the head waiter doubted Joshs reservation with Ms Rogers, Josh still replied patiently.,Josh didnt make any complaint about being arranged to sit at a table close to the bathroom and right by the window.,click,click,click,More,Interpreting,Active reading 1: Navigation,Back,dignified,patient,a little submissive,dignified,patient,authoritative,Interpreting,Ordering and leaving out information In a story a writer has to make choices not only about the language they use, but the order in which they present elements of the story, and what they choose to leave out. Sometimes the reader can understand how effective the story is by thinking about how the story might have been presented in a different way.,Active reading 1: Navigation,More,Interpreting,Active reading 1: Navigation,More,Choose the presumption that you think would have made the story different and explain why., 1) The writer hadnt begun with the description of the scene outside the restaurant. 2) Senator Rogers had arrived before Josh. 3) Josh had said “Im meeti