Lesson Five Say Yes

1. Lesson Five Say Yes

2. Lesson Five Say Yes Ⅰ.Warm-up Ⅱ.Background Information Ⅲ.Text Appreciation Ⅳ.Language Study Ⅴ.Extension

3. Ⅰ.Warm-up:Enjoy a song Love is Color-Blind It don’ t matter if you’ re black white or yellow, if you’ re brown or red let’ s get down to that love is color-blind I remember when I was a child and couldn’t understand people having fun discriminating all the different ones mama just used to say when you grow up you’ ll maybe find a way to make these people see that everything I do comes back to me

4. You gotta live your live we’ re all the same, no one’s to blame they gotta live their lives just play the game and let love reign It don’ t matter if you’ re black white or yellow, if you’re brown or red let’ s get down to that love is color-blind you’ re my brother, you’ re my friend all that matters in the very end is to understand love is color-blind

5. take it out to the world tell every boy and every little girl be proud of yourself cause you re as good as anybody else put away your prejudice open your mind, don t need a stick to this

6. Ⅱ. Background Information • Author • Racism • Ku Klux Klan • Jim Crow Laws

7. 1. AuthorTobias Wolff(1945—)was born in Alabama in 1945. His parents divorced when he was a boy. Wolff’s mother retained custody of him. As a child, Wolff traveled with his mother, Rosemary, to the Pacific Northwest, where she remarried. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, young Tobias soon was forced to endure life under his strict and cruel stepfather. His efforts to get away from his stepfather led to his self-transformation.

8. That period of Wolff’s life is recounted in ThisBoy’s Life: A Memoir, which was later made into a film. He lives with his family in upstate New York and teaches writing at Syracuse University. From 1964 through 1968, Wolff served as a lieutenant with the U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Berets) in Vietnam. He later recounted his wartime experiences in the memoir In the Pharaoh’s Army: Memoirs of the Lost War.

9. In 1972 Wolff earned his B.A. and then his M.A. from Oxford University with First Class Honors in English three years later. He is the author of the short novel The Barracks Thief, which won the 1985 PEN/Faulkner Award; two collections of short stories, Back in the World (collecting “Say Yes”) and In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, which received the Saint Lawrence Award for fiction in 1982.

10. 2. Racism:the belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.

11. 3. Ku Klux Klan Ku Klucks Klan also known as KKK:a secret white supremacist organization at various times in American history terrorized blacks and white sympathizers with violent acts of lynching, shootings and whippings. Founded:1866 Founder:Confederate Civil War veterans Headquarters:Powderly, Kentucky; Butler, Indiana; Jasper, Texas

12. 3. Ku Klux Klan Birth:Six college students founded the Ku Klux Klan between December 1865 , Tennessee. The six young men organized as a social club or fraternity and spent their time in horseplay of various types, including wearing disguises and galloping about town after dark. They were surprised to learn that their nightly appearances were causing fear, particularly among farmer slaves in the area. They quickly took advantage of this effect and the group began a rapid expansion. Various factions formed in different towns, which led to a meeting in April 1867 to codify rules and organizational structure.

13. 3. Ku Klux Klan Targeting those set free after the American Civil War—the African Americans, KKK designed to spread fear throughout the Black population that still lived in the southern states. The most hatred was directed against the poor black families in the south who were very vulnerable to attack.

14. 3. Ku Klux Klan Reconstruction:In 1867, General Nathan Bedford Forrest, converted the Klan into a paramilitary force that served to directly oppose the formation of Republican governments. Klansmen dressed in white robes and covered hoods, rode on horses, and dragged black people and some white republicans from their homes, assaulting them by whipping or lynching them. Such assaults were successful in keeping black men from the polls, and thus altering election results. With the enactment of Congressional legislation and enforcement of the law by the federal government, the Klan was extinguished in 1871—1872.

15. 4. Jim Crow Laws Jim Crow Laws Racial segregation, called “Jim Crow”, excluded blacks from public transport and facilities, jobs, juries, and neighborhoods. Blacks had separate hospitals, prisons, orphanages, parks and pools. The 19th century ended with the races firmly segregated—culturally and legally.

16. Ⅲ. Text Appreciation • Text Analysis • Writing Devices • Sentence Paragraph

17. A. Theme of the Text The idea of racism is a theme in the story, for the implication of the husband’s racism is what causes the couple to quarrel. The wife dislikes her husband’s beliefs that African Americans are different from whites. He maintains that it is not that he is prejudiced against African Americans, but that they come from a different culture and they even have their own language. The husband’s negative response to Ann’s question of whether he would marry her were she African American indicates the pervasive and destructive nature of his racism.

18. B. Structure of the Text The husband and wife maintain a harmonious relationship with each other. • Part 1 (Para. 1 ): • Part 2 (Paras. 2—51): • Part 3 (Para. 52 ): The husband is questioned by his wife about his view on a white person’s marrying a black person. He has a strange feeling of uneasiness in the dark.

19. C. Questions about the Text Question:Is the quarrel between the husband and wife an ordinary quarrel? What does the talk touch upon? Who do you think is responsible for the quarrel? It touches upon the issue of racism.

20. C. Questions about the Text Question:Is the husband a considerate and honest man? What kind of man is he? He was a hypocrite and a terrible racist.

21. considerate pitch in on the housework, come to the aid out of concern ask to complete the dish-washing … hypocritical He is excited by her anger to challenge her. His concern for her is for her appreciation. Send her away to stop the conversation as he is tired of it. He felt ashamed that he had let his wife get him into the fight. He knew that he had to come up with the right answer… A. Contrast appearance innermost being

22. Innuendo: an indirect or subtle, usually derogatory implication in expression; an insinuation B. Innuendo He thought of years they had spent together, and how close they are, and how well they knew each other… (Para. 43) The room was silent. His heart pounded the way it had on their first night together, the way it still did when he woke at a noise in the darkness and waited to hear it again—the sound of someone moving through the house, a stranger. (Para. 52)

23. 3. Sentence Paragraph 1 All the things considered, he thought it was a bad idea. (Para. 2) absolute construction Sometimes his wife got this look where she pinched her brows together and bit her lower lip. (Para. 4) “Where” is used to indicate a relative clause. It can be used after words referring to an aspect of a situation, or a stage in sth.

24. 3. Sentence Paragraph 2 While he was at it, he decided, he might as well mop the floor. (Para. 42) had better he was doing the dishes

25. Ⅳ. Language Study • Word Study • Phrases and Expressions • Word Building • Grammar

26. 1. Word Study Word list: • somehow • pinch • snap • ashamed • clear

27. 1. somehow adv. in a way not specified, understood, or known • I know what we are doing is legal, but • somehowit doesn’t feel right. Compare: anyhow, anyway anyhow: in whatever way or manner; however; nevertheless • They cameanyhowthey could—by boat, train, or plane. • It sounds crazy, but I believe itanyhow.

28. 2. pinch v. 1. to squeeze or bind (a part of the body) in such a way as to cause discomfort or pain • These shoespinchmy toes. 2. to nip; to wither • buds that werepinchedby the frost • a face that waspinchedwith grief

29. 3. snap v. 1. to take photograph • The reportersnappedthe governor as she • was getting into her car. 2. to speak abruptly or sharply • Hesnappedat the child.

30. 4. ashamed adj. feeling shame 感到羞愧的，惭愧的 • You should feelashamedof what you have done. shameful: adj. causing shame; disgraceful 导致羞愧的；可耻的 shameless: adj. without shame; feeling no shame 厚颜无耻的 shamefulconduct shamelessexploiter

31. 5. clear adj. 1. free from clouds, mist, or haze 2. free from what dims, obscures, or darkens 3. free from flaw, blemish, or impurity 4. free from impediment, obstruction, or hindrance 5. plain or evident to the mind; unmistakable aclearday clearwater aclear, perfect diamond aclearrecord with the police aclearpath to victory aclearcase of cheating 一个晴天 清澈的水 完美无瑕的钻石 没有前科 通往胜利坦途 一桩明显的诈骗案

32. 2. Phrases and Expressions List: • pitch in • take one’s word for it • resort to • come up with • break up

33. 1. pitch in to set to work vigorously; to join forces with others; to help or cooperate • If we allpitch in, it shouldn’t take too long. • After we had seen the video everyone started pitching inwith comments on its fault. pitch into: to attack with words or criticize pitch up: to arrive in a place • Hepitched intome as soon as he arrived, asking where the report was. • He finallypitched uptwo hours late.

34. 2.take one’s word for it = take sb. for his word to believe what sb. says is true • If he says there’s $500 in the envelop then I’lltake his word for it. • He said he would give me a job and I just took him for his word.

35. 3. resort to to use sth. for help, because you cannot find any other way of acting • I had toresort toviolence to get my money.

36. 4. come up with to bring forth or discover • Hecame up witha cure for the disease. come up against: to encounter, esp. a difficulty or major problem come down with: to become sick with (an illness) • Hecame up againstgreat difficulties. • Hecame down withthe flu.

37. 5. break up 1. to separate into pieces; to divide 2. to scatter; to disperse 3. to bring or come to an end • break up a chocolate bar • The crowd broke up after the game. • The marriage broke up.

38. 3. Word Building 1. Derivation — prefix:hypo- “below; under” 血压过低 体温过低 细胞减少的 伪君子 [医] 发育不良 贫血 [医] 轻度躁狂 本质的，实体的，实在的 hypotension hypothermia hypocellular hypocrite hypogenesis hypohemia hypomania hypostatic

39. 2. Derivation — prefix:hyper- excessive 上面，超越，过于，极度 血压过高 非常敏感的 超物质的，超自然的 过氧化物 过于苛严，吹毛求疵的 夸张的 胃酸过多 hypertension hypersensitive hyperphysical hyperoxide hypercritic hyperbole hyperacid

40. 3. Derivation — suffix: v+ -ing adj. tiring alarming amazing relaxing confusing astonishing challenging refreshing demanding disturbing annoying surprising terrifying disgusting bleeding dying

41. 4. Grammar Pay attention to the word order in the noun clause. 1. wh-noun clause • I just don’t see what’s wrong with a white person marrying a black person, that’s all. (Para. 7) • He squeezed to see how deep the wound was. (Para. 18) • Well, that’s what you said, didn’t you? (Para. 23)

42. 2. the way + clause • He knew that she was too angry to be actually reading it, but she didn’t snap through the pages the way he would have done. (Para. 40) • When he was done the kitchen looked new, the way it looked when they were first shown in the house. (Para. 42)

43. Ⅴ. Extension Put the phrases into English. Keys 1. feel cornered 2. pitch in 3. take one’s word for it 4. make it up to 5. come to one’s aid 6. move fast on sth. 7. might as well 8. be at sth. 9. snap through 10. resort to 1. 感觉被逼上绝路 2. 精力充沛地投入工作 3. 应该相信 4. 讨好， 奉承 5. 帮助 6. 匆忙得出结论 7. 最好做······ 8. 正处于······ 9. 快速（翻阅） 10.诉诸······

44. Writing : 1. Write a counter-argument to the husband’s statement that African Americans don’t come from the same culture as whites. 2. Write a scene that takes place the following day. 3. Analyze the husband in terms of whether or not he is a racist character.