英语7Unit3History.ppt

History;;;Match the years in the left column with the events in The right column. Then talk about the events with your partner.;Look at the following pictures to understand different opinions on what history is to different people. Then exchange your opinion with your partner and write it down.;Read the first paragraph of the text to check whether your definition of history is somewhat similar to the author’s.; History is a tangled web of stories, opinions, and mysteries. True facts are hidden by the mess found in the web. We are spiders, climbing around the web, searching for facts so that we may make our own opinions, yet only finding them drowning among everything else that has gotten tangled inside. Because of this, history used to be boring for me. ;The opinions that I found were not appealing to me and drew me away from it. Two things happened this year that completely changed my view of history. The first was September 11. The second was my first research paper. ; On September 11 I ran home from the bus stop, anxious to hear what had happened. Some boys and girls on my bus were discussing the plane crashes in whispers. I caught a few words, such as “twin towers” and “plane” but could not see a connection. When I finally got home I found my mom sitting on our front steps. When she told me what had happened, I reeled back in shock and disbelief. ;A fact had just flown out of my web and slapped me in the face. In the next few days, some of my web began to unravel. This was how Americans had felt after Pearl Harbor and how Japanese children had felt after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki —horrified, shocked, and terrified. September 11 gave me a chance to see these historic events through my own eyes, not another person’s. ; Later in the year, around December, I took on a project that would change a large portion of my web forever. The project was a research paper, and my topic was Charles Cornwallis. I entered the assign