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1、cover page,新世纪高等院校英语专业本科系列教材（修订版）综合教程第五册(第2版) 电子教案,上海外语教育出版社南京信息工程大学刘杰海,Unit 2 The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl,Contents page (navigation),Contents,Learning ObjectivesPre-reading ActivitiesGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingConsolidation ActivitiesFurther Enhancement,Learning Objectives,Rhetori

2、cal skill: basic features of narrative writingKey language & grammar pointsWriting strategies: simile, metaphorChinese American literature, Culture Shock,Learning Objectives,Pre-R: picture activation,Discuss the following questions with your partner. Are you familiar with whats in these pictures? Wh

3、at are they?,Picture Activation | Pre-questions,chop suey,moc but,kowtow,Pre-R: Q1,It is generally believed that its not easy for a person to adapt himself/herself to new or strange living surroundings even within his/her own country, not to say in a foreign country. However, if he/she takes the rig

4、ht attitude, adaptation can be achieved in the shortest possible time. What do you think?,Picture Activation | Pre-questions,Tips: Attitude is everything! Winkelmans four stages of cultural adaptation: Honeymoon phase Culture shock Adjustment phase Acceptance and Adaptation phase Reentry shock,Nowad

5、ays, people have more chances to meet others from various cultures. They are likely to find some difficulties or obstacles in communication. What do you think are the essentials of successful cross-cultural communication?,Pre-R: Q2,Picture Activation | Pre-questions,Direct experience is the best way

6、 to begin to learn any culture. Appropriate topics of conversation Use of humor (open for discussion),G-R: text introduction,Text IntroductionIn this poignant remembrance, the author recalls the unforgettable, sorrowful experiences of her childhood when she was forced to learn Chinese, which did not

7、 interest her.,Text Introduction | Culture Notes | Author | Structure,Elizabeth Wong,G-R: culture notes-CAL,Chinese American literature (华裔美国文学) is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of Chinese descent. The genre began in the 19th century and flowered in the 20th with su

8、ch authors as Sui Sin Far, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Amy Tan.Chinese American literature deals with many topics and themes. A common topic is the challenges, both inner and outer, of assimilation in mainstream, white American society by Chinese Americans.,Text Introduction | Culture Notes | Author |

9、 Structure,G-R: culture notes-little women,Little Women (Paragraph 6): published in 1868-1869, written by Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), is a two-part novel describing essentially the authors own family and its domestic adventures.,Text Introduction | Culture Notes | Author | Structure,G-R: culture

10、notes-black beauty,Black Beauty (Paragraph 6): written in 1887 by the British author Anna Sewell, who had a strong love for horses and managed to expose through the book the cruel treatment the horses experienced.,Text Introduction | Culture Notes | Author | Structure,G-R: culture notes-Nancy Drew,N

11、ancy Drew (Paragraph 6): one of the several popular childrens fiction series characters created at the beginning of the 20th century by the Statemeyer Syndicate Company under pseudonyms. Nancy was depicted as being bold and independent, gentle and well-mannered, which made her one of the most popula

12、r heroines of modern times.,Text Introduction | Culture Notes | Author | Structure,G-R: culture notes-Cinco de Mayo,Cinco de Mayo (Paragraph 12): a commemorative celebration on May 5, among Mexican communities in Mexico and North America, of the Mexican defeat of French troops at the Battle of Puebl

13、a in 1862.,Text Introduction | Culture Notes | Author | Structure,G-R: author,Elizabeth Wong, born on June 6, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, is an award-winning contemporary American playwright, television writer, college professor and social essayist. She is the author of such critically acclaime

14、d plays as Letters to a Student Revolution (1991), Kimchee & Chitlins (1994), China Doll (1996), and Dating & Mating in Modern Times (2003), and one of the co-authors of Return to the Upright Position (2002). She wrote for ABC the situation comedy All American Girl in 1994, the second sitcom centere

16、p with the extended family,Part 4,(P12-14) sorrow for not having been able to become a real American,DR-p1 text,THE STRUGGLE TO BE AN ALL-AMERICAN GIRL Elizabeth Wong1. Its still there, the Chinese school on Yale Street where my brother and I used to go. Despite the new coat of paint and the high wi

17、re fence, the school I knew 10 years ago remains remarkably, stoically the same.,Detailed Reading,DR-p2 text,2. Every day at 5 p.m., instead of playing with our fourth- and fifth-grade friends or sneaking out to the empty lot to hunt ghosts and animal bones, my brother and I had to go to Chinese sch

18、ool. No amount of kicking, screaming, or pleading could dissuade my mother, who was solidly determined to have us learn the language of our heritage.,Detailed Reading,DR-p3 text,3. Forcibly, she walked us the seven long, hilly blocks from our home to school, depositing our defiant tearful faces befo

19、re the stern principal. My only memory of him is that he swayed on his heels like a palm tree, and he always clasped his impatient twitching hands behind his back. I recognized him as a repressed maniacal child killer, and knew that if we ever saw his hands wed be in big trouble.,Detailed Reading,DR

20、-p4-5 text,4. We all sat in little chairs in an empty auditorium. The room smelled like Chinese medicine, an imported faraway mustiness. Like ancient mothballs or dirty closets. I hated that smell. I favored crisp new scents, like the soft French perfume that my American teacher wore in public schoo

21、l.5. Although the emphasis at the school was mainly language speaking, reading, writing the lessons always began with an exercise in politeness. With the entrance of the teacher, the best student would tap a bell and everyone would get up, kowtow, and chant, “Sing san ho,“ the phonetic for “How are

22、you, teacher?“,Detailed Reading,DR-p6 text,6. Being ten years old, I had better things to learn than ideographs copied painstakingly in lines that ran right to left from the tip of a moc but, a real ink pen that had to be held in an awkward way if blotches were to be avoided. After all, I could do t

23、he multiplication tables, name the satellites of Mars, and write reports on Little Women and Black Beauty. Nancy Drew, my favorite book heroine, never spoke Chinese.,Detailed Reading,DR-p7 text,7. The language was a source of embarrassment. More times than not, I had tried to disassociate myself fro

24、m the nagging loud voice that followed me wherever I wandered in the nearby American supermarket outside Chinatown. The voice belonged to my grandmother, a fragile woman in her seventies who could outshout the best of the street vendors. Her humor was raunchy, her Chinese rhythmless and patternless.

25、 It was quick, it was loud, it was unbeautiful. It was not like the quiet, lilting romance of French or the gentle refinement of the American South. Chinese sounded pedestrian. Public.,Detailed Reading,DR-p8 text,8. In Chinatown, the comings and goings of hundreds of Chinese on their daily tasks sou

26、nded chaotic and frenzied. I did not want to be thought of as mad, as talking gibberish. When I spoke English, people nodded at me, smiled sweetly, said encouraging words. Even the people in my culture would cluck and say that Id do well in life. “My, doesnt she move her lips fast,“ they would say,

27、meaning that Id be able to keep up with the world outside Chinatown.,Detailed Reading,DR-p9 text,9. My brother was even more fanatical than I about speaking English. He was especially hard on my mother, criticizing her, often cruelly, for her pidgin speech smatterings of Chinese scattered like chop

28、suey in her conversation. “Its not What it is, Mom,“ he would say in exasperation. “Its What is it, what is it, what is it!“ Sometimes Mom might leave out an occasional “the“ or “a“, or perhaps a verb of being. He would stop her in mid-sentence, “Say it again, Mom. Say it right.“ When he tripped ove

29、r his own tongue, hed blame it on her, “See, Mom, its all your fault. You set a bad example.“,Detailed Reading,DR:p10-11 text,10. What infuriated my mother most was when my brother cornered her on her consonants, especially “r“. My father had played a cruel joke on Mom by assigning her an American n

30、ame that her tongue wouldnt allow her to say. No matter how hard she tried, “Ruth“ always ended up “Luth“ or “Roof“.11. After two years of writing with a moc but and reciting words with multiples of meanings, I finally was granted a cultural divorce. I was permitted to stop Chinese school.,Detailed

31、Reading,DR:p12-14 text,12. I thought of myself as multicultural. I preferred tacos to egg rolls; I enjoyed Cinco de Mayo more than Chinese New Year. 13. At last, I was one of you; I wasnt one of them.14. Sadly, I still am.,Detailed Reading,DR:p1Analysis,Paragraph 1 AnalysisThis paragraph, the beginn

32、ing of the narrative text, provides the background of the story. From this we readers learn that the Chinese school on Yale Street, continues to exist there, remaining remarkably and stoically the same, despite its new coat of paint and its fence.,Detailed Reading,DR:p2-7 Analysis,Paragraph 2-7 Anal

33、ysisParagraphs 2-6 dynamically and vividly describe the childrens forced walks to the Chinese school, the stern principal, their classroom, the polite formality with which lessons started, etc.Paragraph 7 tells us why the author did not want to learn Chinese.,Detailed Reading,DR:p8-11 Analysis,Parag

34、raph 8-11 AnalysisThese paragraphs, the third part of the text, specifically and humorously relate the generation gap in the family: between the writer and her grandmother, and between her brother and mother, presenting a sharp contrast in their language competence.,Detailed Reading,DR:p12-14 Analys

35、is,Paragraph 12-14 AnalysisThese paragraphs make up the last part of the narrative text. The writer winds up her narration by telling us that no matter how hard she tried to become Americanized, she remained CHINESE.,Detailed Reading,DR-Questions-p1,Paragraph 1: questions1. Why do you think the scho

36、ol was newly painted?,Detailed Reading,As the Chinese school is rather old, its outside must have been discolored and dirty. To make it look attractive, the school was newly painted as a kind of face-lift.,DR-Questions-p1,Paragraph 1: questions2. What does the existence of the old school imply?,Deta

37、iled Reading,The Chinese school is still there, which implies that still there are many Chinese children attending Chinese lessons in the school. Although they live abroad, Chinese parents never forget their own culture and their own language and require that their children learn their mother tongue

38、.,DR-Questions-p3,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 3: question What do you know about the headmaster of the Chinese school according to the authors descriptions?,He was a stern man who treated the children severely.,DR-Questions-p4,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 4: question How did the author describe the cla

39、ssroom where they attended Chinese lessons?,There were little chairs in an empty auditorium. The room smelled like Chinese medicine, an imported faraway mustiness. Like ancient mothballs or dirty closets.,DR-Questions-p5,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 5: question What else was stressed in the Chinese sc

40、hool besides the emphasis on speaking, reading and writing?,Politeness was also emphasized in the school. The lessons always began with an exercise in politeness. With the entrance of teacher, the best student would tap a bell and all the children would get up, kowtow, “Sing san ho, “ the phonetic f

41、or “How are you, teacher?“,DR-Questions-p6,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 6: question What things did the writer consider to be more important and more useful than learning Chinese?,She considered the following things to be more important and more useful: doing multiplication tables, naming the satellit

42、es of Mars, writing reports on Little Women and Black Beauty.,DR-Questions-p7,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 7: question What did the author think of her grandmothers Chinese?,She thought that her grandmothers Chinese sounded rhythmless and patternless, that it was quick, it was loud, and it wasnt beaut

43、iful, and that her Chinese sounded pedestrian.,DR-Questions-p8,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 8: question What do you know about the authors English proficiency?,She spoke English very fast and very well so that she was able to keep up with the world outside Chinatown.,DR-Questions-p8-activity,Paragraph

44、 8: activityDiscussionIn what way did the author exhibit her preference for American culture over Chinese culture? (Tip: refer to Paragraphs 4-8),Detailed Reading,She hated that smell of the school auditorium while she favored such scents as the soft French perfume that her American teacher wore in

45、public school. She did not like learning the Chinese language, which she thought sounded pedestrian, nor did she like the Chinese calligraphy.,DR-Questions-p9,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 9: question What can you infer from authors descriptions of his brothers attitude toward Chinese culture?,He was m

46、ore radical than the author in his antagonism (对抗) towards Chinese culture, and in his sad earnest effort to be 100% Americanized.,DR-Questions-p10,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 10: question How was the authors mothers level of English?,She was not able to speak English well. She spoke pidgin English,

47、and she had trouble pronouncing some words, particularly words with the “r” sound. Namely, she was grammatically and phonetically crippled.,DR-Questions-p12-14,Detailed Reading,Paragraph 12-14: questions Did the writer enjoy the Chinese New Year? Why?,No. She didnt like it very much. She wasnt used

48、to it.,Does the author think that she has become Americanized?,Yes, she does.,DR-LPT-despite the.,Detailed Reading,“Despite the new coat of paintstoically the same.”,Although covered with a new coat of paint and enclosed with a high wire fence, the school I knew 10 years ago continues to be the same

49、, showing no obvious changes with the passing time.,Paraphrase,DR-LPT-stoically,Detailed Reading,stoic n. person showing no feeling of dislike, worry when faced with sth. unpleasant,stoically adv. with great self-control and a strong will to endure pain, discomfort, or misfortune without complaining about it or showing signs of feeling it,an absolute stoic in the face of mishaps,e.g.,e.g.,1. She behaved stoically during the final phase of her husbands illness. 2. They endured all kinds of hardships stoically.,

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