Unit 7 Everyday Use for your grandmama

1. Unit 7 Everyday Use for your grandmama Alice Walker (Para.17-44)

2. Teaching Procedure Students’ presentation (paragraph17-23) Study on paragraph17-23 Students’ presentation (paragraph24-44) Study on paragraph24-44 Assignment

3. Para. 17-23 Student's Presentation Give an analysis of Dee’s changing

5. Detailed study(17-18 ) • What’s Maggie’s response to Dee’s coming? • escape • Why does Maggie wish to avoid facing her sister?

6. Detailed study(17-18 ) Meet? Welcome, greet, receive but there they are: ? Before I could meet them ( in the yard ), they have already arrived. dash: an act of going suddenly and quickly

7. stay (vt.): ? to stop tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe figures of speech hyperbole and metaphor

8. Detailed study (19-20 ) • Dee’s arriving at home : • 19? • Their getting out off the car • The appearance of the man • 20? • What Dee dresses and wears • Dee’s hair

9. Detailed study (19-20 ) • Hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail. • kinky: • (colloquial) full of short, twisty curls • figure of speech • simile

10. Detailed study (19-20 ) • What is Maggie’s attitude towards the man? • I hear Maggie suck in her breath. • suck in her breath: • inhale吸入

11. Detailed study (19-20 ) • Like when you see the wriggling end of a snake just in front of your foot on the road. “Uhnnnh.” • figure of speech • simile • Uhnnnh: • an exclamation of a strong negative response

12. Detailed study (19-20 ) • What’s Mother’s response to Dee’s dressing? • hot weather… hurt… warming • What’s Mother’s response to Dee’s hair? • Uhnnn • A dress so loud it hurts my eyes. • loud: • too bright and lacking good taste . 花哨的

13. Detailed study (19-20 ) • There are yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun. • throw back: • reflect

14. Detailed study (19-20 ) • The dress is loose and flows: • flow: • to hang loosely and freely • It stands straight up like the wool on a sheep. • figure of speech • simile

15. Detailed study (19-20 ) • It is black as night and around the edges are two long pigtails that rope about like small lizards disappearing behind her ears. • figure of speech • simile • that rope about: • that move about like a rope.

16. Detailed study (21 ) • Wa-su-zo-Tean-o: • It is a phrase in Luganda (a major language of Uganda) showing how the Buganda people of Uganda say “Good Morning”. It can be translated as something like “I hope you have slept well”. • Is Dee familiar with the greeting? • Asalamalakim • This is Muslim for “peace be with you,” In this case the person being greeted repeats the words in reverse order.

17. Detailed study (22 ) • Since I am stout it takes something of a push: • stout: • fat • I have to push myself up with some effort to get up. • 站起来有点吃力

18. Detailed study (22 ) • You can see me trying to move a second or two before I make it: • You can see me trying to move my body a couple of seconds before I finally manage to push myself up. • Out she peeks next with a Polaroid: • Polaroid： • a type of camera that produces instant pictures • “拍立得”相机

19. Detailed study (22 ) • She never takes a shot without making sure the house is included: • Every time she takes a picture she makes sure that the house is in it. • What is Dee’s attitude towards the house this time ? • Why? • Then she puts the Polaroid in the back seat of the car, and comes up and kisses me on the forehead. • Why doesn’t she kiss her mother on the cheeks for greeting?

20. Detailed study (23 ) • Does Mother know the meaning of Asalamalakin? • Meanwhile Asalamalakin is going through motions with Maggie’s hand: • going through motions： • to do something because you have to, not because you really want to

21. Detailed study (23 ) • Maggie’s hand is as limp as a fish, and probably as cold, despite the sweat, and she keeps trying to pull it back: • limp • lacking energy • figure of speech • simile • Maggie’s hand lacks firmness and is cold though she is sweating.

22. Detailed study (23 ) • he soon gives up on Maggie: • Soon he knows that won’t do for Maggie, so he stops trying to shake hands with Maggie in that manner.

23. Analysis of Mother’s language • Elliptical sentence ? • Like when you see the wriggling end of a snake just in front of your toot on the road. • Dee next. • A dress down to the ground, in this hot weather. A dress so loud it hurts my eyes. • Earrings gold, too, and hanging down to her shoulders. • Bracelets dangling and making noises when she moves her arm up to shake the folds of the dress out of her armpits.

24. Analysis of Mother’s language • Simile? • Hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail. • Like when you see the wriggling end of a snake just in front of your toot on the road. • It stands straight up like the wool on a sheep. • It is black as night and around the edges are two long pigtails that rope about like small lizards disappearing behind her ears. • What can you see from mother’s simile? • A typical black woman, familiar with everyday life

25. Analysis of Dee’s change • Dee’s change: • hairstyle • dressing • greeting • her attitude towards the house

28. What kind of people does Dee imitate? How do you know it? • Can you explain the reason for Maggie’s negative attitude towards Dee’s hairstyle? • Mother doesn’t have the absolutely same attitude as Maggies’. Can you guess the reason?

29. Students’ presentation Give an analysis of Dee’s name for the three characters.

30. Para. 24-44 Dee’s new name Her change of her name The origin of her name according to her mother The pronunciation of Dee’s new name

31. What is Dee’s attitude toward her old and new names? What is Mama’s attitude toward her old and new names?

32. Para. 24-44 Wangero Wanjiru “What happened to ‘Dee’?” I wanted to know. Why does the author here change the tense in the text? unfamiliar; strange

33. Para. 24-44 She’s dead: The girl called Dee no longer exists. With the new name she is born again. …being named after the people who oppress me What kind of people does Dee refer it to? What’s the change for Dee?

34. Para. 24-44 She named Dee She (was) named Dee. Though, in fact, I probably … through the family branches: As I see Dee is getting tired of this, I don’t want to go on either. In fact, I could have traced it back before the Civil War through the family branches

35. Para. 24-44 there you are: (colloquial): 1) Here is what you wanted. 2) I told you so. No.2 Dee’s boyfriend means “ That’s what I expected. I knew you couldn’t trace it further back.”

36. Para. 24-44 There I was not: Figure of speech Pun You are not right. Actually, I could have carried it further back if I wanted. I was not there crop up: appear unexpectedly

37. Para. 24-44 ……like somebody inspecting a Model A car. What kind of look is it? Every once in a while he and Wangero sent eye signals over my head: Now and then he and Dee communicated through eye contact in a secretive way.

38. Para. 24-44 ream out: Enlarge with a reamer we got the name out of the way: We overcome the difficulty and managed to pronounce it at last. tripped over it: mispronounced it

39. Para. 24-44 • I wanted to ask him was he a barber: • Incorrect grammar • whether (if) he was a barber. • beef-cattle peoples： • people who breed and fatten cattle for meat • What do the beef-cattle peoples do ? • salt-lick shelters: •  shelters for blocks of rock salt were kept for cattle to lick

40. About Dee’s boyfriend • What’s the difference between Dee’s boyfriend and the beef-cattle people? • What does this illustrate?

41. Dee’s name How did mama call Dee in this episode? What can you find about mama’s thought?