Slavery Gave Me
Nothing to Lose
Unit 8
Stage 1,Warming-up Activities
Stage 2,Reading-Centred Activities
Stage 3,After-Reading Activities
Stage 4,Listening-and-Speaking
Practice
Warming-up Activities
Group work
Questions for thought and discussion
Background information
Enriching your vocabulary
Comparing the following words
Group work
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,
Questions for thought
and discussion
Listen to a short passage
carefully and then answer
the following questions,
Background information
Eatonville,It is a small community of great
significance to African-American history and
culture,Located just north of Orlando,
Florida between 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 land 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 environment 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,Benjamin 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 has also
established itself as part of Florida's
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 wasn't much to Orlando until
Walt Disney started buying up
property at the city's southwestern
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 world's most visited tourist
attractions.
Zora Neale Hurston (1891－ 1960),American
writer,folklorist and anthropologist,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 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 (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!!,which
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 woman's search,over 25 years
and 3 marriages,for her true identity and a
community in which she can develop that
identity,Hurston's prolific literary output also
includes such novels as Jonah's Gourd Vine
and Seraph on the Suwanee,short stories,
plays,journal articles,and an autobiography,
Dust Tracks on a Road,Hurston's work was
not political,but her characters' use of dialect,
her manner of portraying black culture,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 community,Her writings,
however,were rediscovered in the 1970s by
a new generation of black writers,notably
Alice Walker,and many of Hurston's 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 infamous for its
smelly paper mills,it is now one of the South's
insurance and banking capitals,Although
Jacksonville claims to be the capital of
Florida's historic,First Coast”,the city dates
its beginnings from an early-1800s settlement
named Cowford,because cattle crossed the St,
Johns River here,Cowford 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,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 causes that may
have motivated the states to war,such as
state's 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,Slavery 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 Robert 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 Lincoln's victory in the presidential
election of 1860,which made South Carolina's
secession from the Union a foregone conclusion,
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 America' 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 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
stationed 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 States,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
practiced during the war by the Union armies
and the,reconstruction” program forced on the
former Confederacy by the Union victors,
Enriching your
vocabulary
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 the
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,
靠在靠着直到那时
My study is the perfect place for
an author,especially if he doesn?t
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,
凝视顺便
Yesterday?s meeting 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,
中断因为，在于
But talent can be developed 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 don?t
have to laugh at them,
Although they belonged to different
generations,they shared many
thoughts in common,
展现不赞同属于
This time he could afford to
make 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,
在旁边大体而言
Doubtlessly he paid a price for that
too,but if he had not felt that
misery he could never have created
the works he did,
Retirement allowed him the time to
enjoy music,often in company with
his children and grandchildren,
As soon as he's more or less
mastered something,he's bored
with it,
为 … 付出代价与 … 一起或多或少
Homework
Learn the new words and
expressions of the text by heart,
Go over the text and try to get
the main idea of the text,
Analyze the structure of the
text,
Reading-Centred
Activities
1,Global Reading Task
Reading Skills,
Text structure analysis:
2,Detailed Reading Task
Language points
Simulated writing
Summary of the text
After-Reading Activities
Vocabulary Exercises
Translating and Writing
Listening and speaking
activities
Talking about the topic
or retelling the text
Listening and speaking
practice in XP center
Nothing to Lose
Unit 8
Stage 1,Warming-up Activities
Stage 2,Reading-Centred Activities
Stage 3,After-Reading Activities
Stage 4,Listening-and-Speaking
Practice
Warming-up Activities
Group work
Questions for thought and discussion
Background information
Enriching your vocabulary
Comparing the following words
Group work
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,
Questions for thought
and discussion
Listen to a short passage
carefully and then answer
the following questions,
Background information
Eatonville,It is a small community of great
significance to African-American history and
culture,Located just north of Orlando,
Florida between 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 land 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 environment 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,Benjamin 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 has also
established itself as part of Florida's
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 wasn't much to Orlando until
Walt Disney started buying up
property at the city's southwestern
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 world's most visited tourist
attractions.
Zora Neale Hurston (1891－ 1960),American
writer,folklorist and anthropologist,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 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 (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!!,which
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 woman's search,over 25 years
and 3 marriages,for her true identity and a
community in which she can develop that
identity,Hurston's prolific literary output also
includes such novels as Jonah's Gourd Vine
and Seraph on the Suwanee,short stories,
plays,journal articles,and an autobiography,
Dust Tracks on a Road,Hurston's work was
not political,but her characters' use of dialect,
her manner of portraying black culture,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 community,Her writings,
however,were rediscovered in the 1970s by
a new generation of black writers,notably
Alice Walker,and many of Hurston's 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 infamous for its
smelly paper mills,it is now one of the South's
insurance and banking capitals,Although
Jacksonville claims to be the capital of
Florida's historic,First Coast”,the city dates
its beginnings from an early-1800s settlement
named Cowford,because cattle crossed the St,
Johns River here,Cowford 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,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 causes that may
have motivated the states to war,such as
state's 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,Slavery 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 Robert 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 Lincoln's victory in the presidential
election of 1860,which made South Carolina's
secession from the Union a foregone conclusion,
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 America' 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 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
stationed 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 States,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
practiced during the war by the Union armies
and the,reconstruction” program forced on the
former Confederacy by the Union victors,
Enriching your
vocabulary
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 the
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,
靠在靠着直到那时
My study is the perfect place for
an author,especially if he doesn?t
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,
凝视顺便
Yesterday?s meeting 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,
中断因为，在于
But talent can be developed 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 don?t
have to laugh at them,
Although they belonged to different
generations,they shared many
thoughts in common,
展现不赞同属于
This time he could afford to
make 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,
在旁边大体而言
Doubtlessly he paid a price for that
too,but if he had not felt that
misery he could never have created
the works he did,
Retirement allowed him the time to
enjoy music,often in company with
his children and grandchildren,
As soon as he's more or less
mastered something,he's bored
with it,
为 … 付出代价与 … 一起或多或少
Homework
Learn the new words and
expressions of the text by heart,
Go over the text and try to get
the main idea of the text,
Analyze the structure of the
text,
Reading-Centred
Activities
1,Global Reading Task
Reading Skills,
Text structure analysis:
2,Detailed Reading Task
Language points
Simulated writing
Summary of the text
After-Reading Activities
Vocabulary Exercises
Translating and Writing
Listening and speaking
activities
Talking about the topic
or retelling the text
Listening and speaking
practice in XP center
