新课标 高二unit 14 说课
and New York, and taking along his ever-growing family. (He would father twenty children.) Working at various times as a farmer, wool merchant,
tanner, and land speculator, he never was finacially successful -- he even filed for bankruptcy when in his forties. His lack of funds, however, did not keep him from supporting
causes he believed in. He helped finance the publication of David Walker’s Appeal and Henry Highland’s "Call to Rebellion" speech. He gave land to fugitive slaves. He and his wife agreed to raise a black youth as
one of their own. He also participated in the Underground Railroad and, in 1851, helped establish the League
of Gileadites, an organization that worked to protect escaped slaves from slave catchers.
Brown, knowing that many of the families were finding life in this isolated area difficult, offered to establish his
own farm there as well, in order to lead the blacks by his example and to act as a "kind father to them."
Brown was wounded and quickly captured, and moved to Charlestown, Virginia, where he was tried and
convicted of treason, Before hearing his sentence, Brown was allowed make an address to the court.
“I believe to have interfered as I have done, . . . in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right.
Now, if it be deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and
mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country
whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done."
Henry David said in an address to the citizens of Concord, Massachusetts. "No man in America has ever
stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature. . . ."
John Brown was hanged on December 2, 1859.
2. Listen and learn the song.
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! (form the book Famous American songs and their cultural background) Remember:
Each kid keeps a piece.
Raise questions:
What is the name of the song? What does it mean?
What is the meaning of the sentence “he’s gone to be a soldier in the army of the Lord” ?
Step 5 Singing
Will you sing other songs like this one?
Examples: Blowing in the wind; We shall overcome…
Step Homework:
Prepare the task of talking in the workbook.
Get information about M. L King, especially about his stories.
Talk about famous freedom fighters in China, such as Chen Sheng and Wu Guang.. .; Mao Zedong……
Addition:
Period 3 and 4 Reading
Teaching Aims:
1. Read the text and grasp the main idea of it
2. Learn the fine qualities of Martin Luther King Jr.
Teaching Procedures:
Step1 Lead-in
Show Ss some pictures. Some are the Whites, others are the Blacks. Ask: who are more respected,





