北师大版九年级初三英语全一册Classics.ppt

Classics of American & British Literature PPT课件 * Teaching Plan 14 sessions X 2.5 hours 7 sessions for American Literature 7 sessions for British Literature Introduction Highlights Review PPT课件 * Scoring 30 percent based on attendance and participation 30 percent based on reading and writing assignments 40 percent based on a final essay PPT课件 * Recommended readings Classics of American Literature, by Arnold Weinstein, Ph.D. 《美国文学史及选读》 吴伟仁. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, published by W. W. Norton & Company 《英国文学名篇选注》王佐良等. PPT课件 * A Matching Game: Who’s Who PPT课件 * *He believes in “self-reliance” *He wrote that "words are signs of natural facts" and "nature is the symbol of spirit.“ *He argues that our life is an ongoing series of discoveries, and experience records our crashing into both reality and ourselves. Henry David Thoreau Ralph Waldo Emerson *One of his famous remarks is “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation“. * According to him, we are all slaves in society, in that we follow routines and even worship gods. * He elects to live out his principles by moving to Walden Pond; hence, he articulates a philosophy of action, of praxis over theory. PPT课件 * *He wrote the story about a woman who was forced to wear a rag of scarlet cloth that assumed the shape of an upper case letter “A”, which is a symbol of her “sin”. *His works belong to romanticism or, more specifically, dark romanticism, cautionary tales that suggest that guilt, sin, and evil are the most inherent natural qualities of humanity. Nathaniel Hawthorne Edgar Allen Poe *He is called the first great ghost writer for his writings about death, including its physical signs, the effects of decomposition, concerns of premature burial, the reanimation of the dead, and mourning. *He claims that meaning in literature should be an undercurrent just beneath the surface. Works with obvious meanings, he wrote, cease to be art. PPT课件 * Herman Melville Walt Whitman *He wrote