1、 Go over the preview,the pre-reading questions and the title of the text before listening to the summary of the story and anticipate what we are going to read.Eatonville:It is a small community of great significance to African-American history and culture.Located just north of Orlando,Florida betwee
2、n Winter Park and Maitland,it is historically recognized as the first incorporated African-American municipality in the United States and one of the oldest surviving African communities in the U.S.Following the Civil War,“free”Africans settling in the area worked primarily as farm hands clearing lan
3、d or helping in the construction of nearby Maitland,a white township.Eatonville is culturally important for its renowned native daughter,Zora Neale Hurston(c.f.Note 3 below),author,anthropologist and folklorist.Her words captured forever the culture of the community and painted an image of an enviro
4、nment typical of the rural Southern working-class African-American.Each January,Eatonville plays host to the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities.In addition to Zora Neale Hurston,other notable residents of Eatonville include Hall of Fame football player,Deacon Jones and Dr.Benjami
5、n Perry,president of Florida A&M University.Orlando:It is the fifth-ranking U.S.destination of overseas travelers after San Francisco,Miami,Los Angeles and New York City and it claims the second highest number of hotel rooms in the U.S.,lagging just behind Las Vegas in the bedroom stakes.The city ha
6、s also established itself as part of Floridas high-tech corridor,boasting not only the space technology industries focused on the Florida Space Coast,but a healthy dose of bits and bytes makers as well.There wasnt much to Orlando until Walt Disney started buying up property at the citys southwestern
7、 edge in the 1960s and the property he bought became Disney World in 1971.Since then,waterslides,roller coasters,fairy tale palaces and costumed characters have made Disney World one of the worlds most visited tourist attractions.Zora Neale Hurston(18911960):American writer,folklorist and anthropolo
8、gist.Born in Eatonville,Florida,Hurston was educated at Howard University,at Barnard College,and at Columbia University,where she studied under German-American anthropologist Franz Boas.Eatonville was the first incorporated all-black town in the United States,and Hurston returned there after college
9、 for anthropological field study that influenced her later output in fiction as well as in folklore.Hurston also collected folklore in Jamaica,Haiti,Bermuda,and Honduras.Mules and Men(1935),one of her best-known folklore collections,was based on her field research in the American South.Tell My Horse
10、(1938)described folk customs in Haiti and Jamaica.As a fiction writer,Hurston is noted for her metaphorical language,her story-telling abilities,and her interest in and celebration of Southern black culture in the United States.Some of her earliest work was published in the small magazine Fire!,whic
11、h Hurston,along with notable writers such as Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman,produced in 1926.Her best-known novel is Their Eyes Were Watching God,in which she tracked a Southern black womans search,over 25 years and 3 marriages,for her true identity and a community in which she can develop that
12、 identity.Hurstons prolific literary output also includes such novels as Jonahs Gourd Vine and Seraph on the Suwanee,short stories,plays,journal articles,and an autobiography,Dust Tracks on a Road.Hurstons work was not political,but her characters use of dialect,her manner of portraying black cultur
13、e,and her conservatism created controversy within the black community.Throughout her career she addressed issues of race and gender,often relating them to the search for freedom.In her later years Hurston experienced health problems,and she died impoverished and unrecognized by the literary communit
14、y.Her writings,however,were rediscovered in the 1970s by a new generation of black writers,notably Alice Walker,and many of Hurstons works were republished.In 1995 a two-volume set of her writings,some previously unpublished,was released.Jacksonville:It is 134 miles northeast of Orlando,Florida.Once
15、 infamous for its smelly paper mills,it is now one of the Souths insurance and banking capitals.Although Jacksonville claims to be the capital of Floridas historic“First Coast”,the city dates its beginnings from an early-1800s settlement named Cowford,because cattle crossed the St.Johns River here.C
16、owford changed its name to Jacksonville in 1822 to honor General Andrew Jackson,the provisional governor who forced Spain to cede Florida to the United States 2 years earlier.the Civil War:The American Civil War was the only war fought on American soil by Americans.3 million fought and 600,000 died.
17、It was fought in the United States of America between the northern states,popularly referred to as the“Union”,and the seceding southern states(in the U.S.,The South),calling themselves the Confederate States of America or the“Confederacy”between 1861 and 1865.There is considerable debate about cause
18、s that may have motivated the states to war,such as states rights with respect to the federal government,taxation,and imbalance of trade.But there is no question that the salient issue in the minds of the public and popular press of the time,and the histories written since,was the issue of slavery.S
19、lavery had been abolished in most northern states,but was legal and important to the economy of the Confederacy,which depended on cheap agricultural labor.The Union was led by President Abraham Lincoln and the Confederacy by President Jefferson Davis.Significant Southern military leaders included Ro
20、bert E.Lee,Thomas Stonewall Jackson,James Longstreet,and P.G.T.Beauregard.Northern leaders included Ulysses Grant,William Tecumseh Sherman,and George Meade.It started with Lincolns victory in the presidential election of 1860,which made South Carolinas secession from the Union a foregone conclusion.
21、The state had long been waiting for an event that would unite the South against the antislavery forces.Once the election returns were certain,a special South Carolina convention declared“that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states under the name of the United States of Amer
22、ica is hereby dissolved.”By February 1,1861,six more Southern states had seceded.On February 7,the seven states adopted a provisional constitution for the Confederate States of America.The remaining southern states as yet remained in the Union.Less than a month later,on March 4,1861,Abraham Lincoln
23、was sworn in as president of the United States.In his inaugural address,he refused to recognize the secession,considering it“legally void”.His speech closed with a plea for restoration of the bonds of union.But the South turned deaf ears,and on April 12,guns opened fire on the federal troops station
24、ed at Fort Sumter in the Charleston,South Carolina harbor.The war ended in 1865 with the surrender of Confederate forces.General Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia on 9 April 1865 at Appomattox Court house.The Civil War ended with the emancipation of all slaves held in the Confederate Sta
25、tes.Slaves were not freed in the remaining states until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution by 3/4 of the states,which did not occur until December of 1865,8 months after the end of the war.A great deal of ill will among the Southern survivors resulted from the total warfare
26、practiced during the war by the Union armies and the“reconstruction”program forced on the former Confederacy by the Union victors.Read the sentences carefully and guess the meaning of the italicized term in each sentence according to the context and your own experiences.She propped herself against t
27、he cold,damp wall with the baby in one hand and a bottle of gin in the other.He lay,propped up by pillows,his face pale and eyes dull.The organization had continually opposed any change and had had little understanding of the industrialization process up to that time.靠在靠在靠着靠着直到那时直到那时 My study is the
28、 perfect place for an author,especially if he doesnt object to being occasionally peered at through the windows by curious visitors.These points have been mentioned in passing in the previous class,but they are summarized here for the sake of convenience and for added emphasis.凝视凝视顺便顺便 Yesterdays me
29、eting resumed talks broken off 8 years ago;this event has been taken as a new start in the relationship between the two countries.Your behavior is extremely important in that it conveys your attitude much more effectively and directly than the words you use.中断中断因为，在于因为，在于 But talent can be developed
30、 and trained and provide a sound basis for you to give of the best inside you.Even when other people around us do things we disapprove of,we dont have to laugh at them.Although they belonged to different generations,they shared many thoughts in common.展现展现不赞同不赞同属于属于 This time he could afford to make
31、 no mistake:his teacher was there at his elbow,watching every move.It is the community who should,in the main,determine whether police are to be involved in resolving community conflicts.在旁边在旁边大体而言大体而言 Doubtlessly he paid a price for that too,but if he had not felt that misery he could never have cr
32、eated the works he did.Retirement allowed him the time to enjoy music,often in company with his children and grandchildren.As soon as hes more or less mastered something,hes bored with it.为为付出代价付出代价与与一起一起或多或少或多或少Homework Learn the new words and expressions of the text by heart.Go over the text and t
33、ry to get the main idea of the text.Analyze the structure of the text.1.Global Reading Task Reading Skills:Text structure analysis:2.Detailed Reading Task Language pointsSimulated writingSummary of the text Vocabulary Exercises Translating and Writing Listening and speaking activities Talking about the topic or retelling the text Listening and speaking practice in XP center
