The Second Period Intensive ReadingTeaching goals 教学目标教学目标1.Target Language 目标语言目标语言 a.重点词汇和短语 abolish, aim, anti-slavery, condition, cotton, critical, elect, slave, slavery, sympathetic, free, poisoned, threaten, reveal, identify, opportunity, owner, come to existence, be born into b.重点句子 1The country we know as the United States of America came into existence towards the end of the 18th century. 2Slave ships carried slaves over from Africa, keeping them in such terrible conditions that many died during the long sea journey.3 By the first half of the 19th century, slavery had transformed the economy of the nation, making it very wealthy.4 Only the Southern states insisted on keeping it, mainly because they needed cotton more than the more industrialized North.5 The war lasted four years, ending in the 1865. 6 Lincoln was murdered by a man who was sympathetic to the Southern cause. 7 As was the custom at that time, his father had taken the last name of his last owner. 8 While there, Solomon became extremely ill. 9He was beaten and threatened with death if he ever revealed his true identity. 2.Ability goals 能力目标能力目标 Help the students to learn about the slavery in the USA. 3.Learning ability goals 学能目标学能目标Enable the students to understand the slavery in the USA. Teaching important and difficult point 教学重难点教学重难点 Help the students understand the slavery in the USA. Teaching methods 教学方法教学方法 reading, listening and discussing Teaching aids 教具准备教具准备 A tape recorder, a multiple-media computer and a projector Teaching procedure and ways 教学过程与方式教学过程与方式 Step I Lead-in T: Did you surf the internet and find some information about the slavery in the USA. Whod like to tell us something about it? S: Slavery therefore became the ultimate test of disunity within the union of states which were already at odds in a democracy espousing freedom for its people. At the center of this conflict were the Africans who were bought, sold, and used as workers on American soil. The use of slave labor was a well known practice for years in the world community. S: The rising demand for sugar, coffee, cotton, and tobacco created a greater demand for slaves by other slave trading countries. Spain, France, the Dutch, and English were in competition for the cheap labor needed to work their colonial plantation system producing those lucrative goods. The slave trade was so profitable that, by 1672, the Royal African Company chartered by Charles II of England superseded the other traders and became the richest shipper of human slaves to the mainland of the Americas. The slaves were so valuable to the open market - they were eventually called “Black Gold.“ S: Many Europeans came to America to exercise their God fearing beliefs and to practice religious freedom. Slavery, on the other hand, was a form of persecution which, in the eyes of colonial America, had to be justified. Therefore, the black slave became an easily identifiable group targeted as being inferior, subhuman, and destined for servitude. S: Freedom was always on the minds of the enslaved Africans. How to gain that freedom was the big question. American historical records have identified some of those attempts and some of the people involved in the Africans quest for freedom on American soil. S: Refusing to obey their masters demands created a duel crisis on the part of the resisting slaves and their demanding owners. The most common form of resistance used by the slaves was to run away. To live as a runaway required perfect escape routes and exact timing. Where to hide, finding food, leaving the family and children behind became primary issues for the escaping slaves. Later, the severe punishment had to be faced whenever a hunted slave was caught and returned to bondage. S: Many slaves ran off and lived in the woods or vast wilderness in the undeveloped American countryside. This group of slaves was called “maroons,“ for they found remote areas in the thick forest and mainly lived off wild fruits and animals as food. Some of these maroons ran off, lived, and even married into segments of the Native American populations. They were later called Black Indians. T: I am very glad youve known a lot about America slavery.Step II Reading (Part 1) Skimming T: What was the reason for the American Civil War? S: It was therefore inevitable that something had to be done in America in order to preserve the Union. S: The North states of the America also abolished slavery. So the North became more and more critical of the slavery in the South. Then seven southern states left the Union. Lincoln as the president didnt agree to this. Thus, the American Civil War began. T: Why was slavery so important to the South? S: Because there were so many cotton plantations in South American, They need a lot of labors. That is why slavery was so important to the South. T: Why was slavery eventually abolished? S: Because it is the development trend of the history. T