新视野大学英语读写教程3_Unit4_课件教学幻灯片.ppt

Unit 4 Section A;Contents;课文;Tips;Tips;N H C E;N H C E;N H C E;N H C E;Pre-reading;N H C E;N H C E;N H C E;N H C E;N H C E;N H C E;N H C E;;N H C E;N H C E;N H C E;N H C E;N H C E;N H C E;N H C E;N H C E;Text Study;Topic-centered Analysis of Text;Part V;N H C E;N H C E;N H C E;N H C E;N H C E;N H C E;N H C E;N H C E;N H C E;American Gothic Para. 9a Grant Wood instantly rose to fame in 1930 with his painting American Gothic, an often-copied interpretation of the solemn pride of American farmers. The painting shows a serious-looking man and a woman standing in front of a farmhouse. ;Para. 9b He was strongly influenced by medieval artists and inspired by the Gothic window of an old farmhouse, but the faces in his composition were what captured the world’s attention. ;Para. 10 Wood liked to paint faces he knew well. For the grave farmer he used his dentist, a sour-looking man. For the woman standing alongside him, the artist chose his sister, Nan. He stretched the models’ necks a bit, but there was no doubt who posed for the portrait. Para. 11 Nan later remarked that the fame she gained from American Gothic saved her from a very boring life. ;The Buffalo Nickel Para. 12 Today, American coins honor prominent figures of the US government—mostly famous former presidents. But the Buffalo nickel, produced from 1913 to 1938, honored a pair of connected tragedies from the settlement of the American frontier—the destruction of the buffalo herds and the American Indians.;N H C E;Para. 14 For the buffalo on the other side, since buffalo no longer wandered about the great grasslands, Fraser was forced to sketch an aging buffalo from New York City’s Central Park Zoo. Two years later, in 1915, this animal was sold for $100 and killed for meat, a hide, and a wall decoration made from its horns.;Uncle Sam Para. 15 Fourteen-year-old Sam Wilson ran away from home to join his father and older brothers in the fight to liberate the American colonies from the British during the American