[高中教育]高英everyday use 演示文稿.ppt

一.Some background information;;2.Her early Life; Mr. in The Color Purple), Walker was writing—very privately—since she was eight years old. With my family, I had to hide things, she said. And I had to keep a lot in my mind. In 1952, Walker was accidentally wounded in the right eye by a shot from a BB gun fired by one of her brothers. Then she was permanently blind in that eye, felt like an outcast and she turned for solace to reading and to writing poetry. she subsequently became valedictorian （作告别演说者）and was voted most-popular girl, as well as queen of her senior class, she realized that her traumatic injury had some value: it allowed her to begin really to see people and things, really to notice relationships and to learn to be patient enough to care about how they turned out, as she has said. 3.Activism Alice Walker met Martin Luther King Jr. when she was;a student at Spellman College in Atlanta in the early 1960s. Walker credits King for her decision to return to the American South as an activist for the Civil Rights Movement. She attended the famous 1963 March on Washington. As a young adult she volunteered her time registering voters in Georgia and Mississippi On March 8, 2003, International Womens Day, on the eve of the Iraq War, Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior, and Terry Tempest Williams, author of An Unspoken Hunger were arrested along with 24 others for crossing a police line during an anti-war protest rally outside the White House. Walker wrote about the experience in her essay We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For In November 2008, Alice Walker wrote An Open Letter to Barrack Obama that was published on The root. com. In March 2009, Alice Walker traveled to Gaza along with a group of 60 other female activists from the anti-war group Code Pink in response to the controversial Israeli offensive of December 2008-January 2009 The purpose of the trip was to deliver aid, to meet with NGOs and reside