Unit 7 Everyday Use for your grandmama Alice Walker (Para.1-4)

Teaching Objectives To know the knowledge about the author and black power movement To comprehend the whole text To appreciate the style and rhetoric of the passage. To understand the structure of the text To learn and master the vocabulary and expressions To learn to paraphrase the difficult sentences

Structure analysis?

Group 2 1-16 Give an analysis of the three characters Group 3 17-23 Give an analysis of Dee’s changing Group 4 24-44 Give an analysis of Dee’s name for the three characters. Group 1 45-end Give an analysis of the quilts for the three characters

Structural introduction Part I (Para.1-16): a description of the situation and main characters Part II (Para.17- 81) : the main plot of the story Part III: (Para.82): the end of the story

Waiting (Para. 7-8) Memories (Para. 9-13) Introduction Waiting (Para. 1) Memories (Para.2-6) Waiting (Para. 14) Memories (Para. 15-16) Development (Dee’s visiting) Showing interest in everyday use (para. 45-54) Changing her clothing and greeting (para. 17-23) Changing her name (para. 24-44) Climax Grabbing quilts (para. 55-81) Conclusion Dee went away (Para. 82)

Teaching Procedure Background information Alice Walker Black Power Movement Structural introduction Students’ presentation (paragraph1-16) Study on paragraph1-16 Assignment

Background Information Alice Walker (February 9, 1944 - ) an African American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and activist. a childhood accident blinded her in one eye Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College in NY

Works Once：Poems 《一度》 The Third Life of Grange Copeland 《格兰奇科普兰的第三次生命》 In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women 《爱情与烦恼：黑人妇女的故事》 Meridian 《子午线》 The Color Purple 《紫色》 By the Light of My Father’s Smile 《父亲的微笑之光》 The Temple of My Familiar 《殿堂》 Possessing the Secret of Joy 《拥有快乐的秘密》

The Color Purple the Pulitzer Prize of Fiction 普利策小说奖 The American Book Award 美国图书奖 The National Book Critics Circle Award全国图书评论奖 In 1985, The Color Purple was made into a movie which won great fame.

Her works are mostly: African American woman’s life. sexism, racism and poverty the strengths of family, community, self-worth, and spirituality. She is an activist on environmental, feminist, and womanist causes, as well as working for racial and economic justice.

Alice Walker’s Quotations It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it’s pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Alice Walker’s Quotations How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. No person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed (flowering) as you were intended.

Alice Walker’s Quotations The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Black Power Movement Civil Right Movement (1950s and 1960s ) Black Power Movement (1960s and 1970s ) The Black Power Movement instilled (implant) a sense of racial pride and self-esteem in blacks. Blacks were told that it was up to them to improve their lives.

Black Power Movement the movement emphasized racial pride and the creation of black political and cultural institutions (organization) to nurture (bring up) and promote black collective interests and advance black values.

Black Power Movement For the first time, blacks in the U. S. were encouraged to acknowledge their African heritage. Colleges and universities established black studies programs and black studies departments. Blacks who had grown up believing that they were descended from (come from) a backwards people now found out that African culture was as rich and diverse as any other, and they were encouraged to take pride in that heritage.

Structural introduction Style: narration (short story) Point of View : first-person point of view

Para.1-16 Give an analysis of the three characters

Para. 1 -2? Who are Mama and Maggie waiting for? she and Maggie are waiting on the return of Dee for a visit.

Para. 1 -2? How do they prepare for Dee’s come?

Para. 1 -2? Why do mother and Maggie prepare so well for Dee’s return? Her return is just like that of a princess. Preparation hints the relationship between Mother and Dee is alienated

Para. 1 -2? What can you infer about the living condition from the description？ How is mother’s life attitude? What does the yard mean to mama？ The setting: yard, house A very vivid description of the yard, the elm tree, and the breeze

Para. 1 -2? Why is the yard wavy? wavy: having curves; not straight . The trace of brooms

Para. 1 -2? Why is it like an extended room? Not just a yard? extended prolonged, enlarged extended---large

Para. 1 -2? and the fine sand . . . lined with tiny, irregular groves: One word is omitted? elliptical sentence the link verb “is” is omitted. fine: not coarse, in small particles

Para. 1 -2? Why will Maggie be nervous until after her sister goes？ Because she has always been devalued in comparison to Dee by her mother and by Dee herself. The relationship between the two sisters is unfriendly and tense. Find out the words & expressions in the paragraph to describe how Maggie acted.

Para. 1 -2? What can you tell about Maggie’s character？ Why does Maggie admire her sister？ Comparison with her sister: eying her with a mixture of envy and awe Sister has held life in the palm of one hand.

Para. 1 -2? homely: plain, unattractive. hold life in the palm of one hand: to have a firm control of her life. “no” is a word the world never learned to say to her: Figure of speech she could always have anything she wanted, and life was extremely generous to her

Part1 (Para.3-4 ) what Mother expected What would usually happen when successful children are confronted by their parents on a TV programme？ weep; wrap; lean…and tell

Part1 (Para.3-4 ) what Mother expected to be What is the mother’s attitude towards this kind of program? How do you know that ? What would they do if ……? of this sort

Part1 (Para.3-4 ) what Mother expected to be In mama’s fantasy, what does she dream of? The mother’s imagination of appearing on a TV program. What can you see about mother’s feeling towards Dee? How do you know it? Even though

Part1 (Para.3-4 ) To have made it: ? To be successful in achieving sth. Difficult What’s Dee for Mama confronted, as a surprise by her own mother and father: brought face to face with her own mother and father unexpectedly. encounter

Part1 (Para.3-4 ) She knew that she had to _____ her fears. She was ______ with severe money problems. Did you ______ anyone in the building Environmental problems they found in Poland were among the worst they _______. When ______ with a bear, stop and stay calm confront; confronted; encounter; encountered; confronted

Assignment Prepare for the reading (para.5-16)