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Book 2 Unit 3 Lessons from Jefferson

Pre-Reading activities Text New Word reading Text A: Language points Newspaper readil Exercise Check-up △ sSignment

• Pre-Reading Activities • Text & New Word Reading • Text A: Language Points • Newspaper Reading • Exercise Check-up • Assignment

Background Information Summary of the Text

• Background Information • Summary of the Text

Background Information The Declaration of Independence Social class Jefferson and the French Revolution Canoe

Background Information • The Declaration of Independence • Social class • Jefferson and the French Revolution • Canoe

Background Information The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents in the history of the USa and of the world as well. It was drafted by Thomas Jefferson(1743 1826) and adopted with a number of minor changes on July 4 1776, by the representatives of the 13 colonies at the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia

Background Information The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents in the history of the USA and of the world as well. It was drafted by Thomas Jefferson (1743 — 1826) and adopted with a number of minor changes on July 4 1776, by the representatives of the 13 colonies at the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia

Background Information In this public document, the colonists in America solemnly proclaimed (Eti) their independence from British rule. It marked the beginning of a new nation the United States of America, and hence July 4 has become the national birthday. This epoch-making document falls into two parts The first part tells of the rights that belong to everybody and the second part recounts (AXis the wrongs the British did against the colonies. These were charges against George l, King of england

Background Information In this public document, the colonists in America solemnly proclaimed （宣布）their independence from British rule. It marked the beginning of a new nation — the United States of America, and hence July 4 has become the national birthday. This epoch-making document falls into two parts. The first part tells of the rights that belong to everybody and the second part recounts （叙述）the wrongs the British did against the colonies. These were charges against George III, King of England

Background Information Social class is a group of people differentiated loosely from other groups in terms of wealth, position, and power From the Marxist point of view, classes are determined primarily according to "the relations of production"of a given society, that is, according to an examination of who owns the means of production and who operates the means of production

Background Information Social class is a group of people differentiated loosely from other groups in terms of wealth, position, and power. From the Marxist point of view, classes are determined primarily according to "the relations of production" of a given society, that is, according to an examination of who owns the means of production and who operates the means of production

Background Information The theory of class currently prevailing(iiI) in the West is largely based on what Max Weber (1864-1930), a German sociologist, proposed. His theory holds that men in every society are evaluated by their fellow men on a number of structural bases That is, they are evaluated in terms of their profession, their social status, their membership in a family or ethnic(种族的) body and their knowledge or education

Background Information The theory of class currently prevailing（流行）in the West is largely based on what Max Weber (1864 — 1930), a German sociologist, proposed. His theory holds that men in every society are evaluated by their fellow men on a number of structural bases. That is, they are evaluated in terms of their profession, their social status, their membership in a family or ethnic（种族的） body, and their knowledge or education

Background Information As a person, he is always fascinating because he did so many different things so well. His interests and talents covered a really amazing range. Besides being a well-known statesman (E 治家), he was a writer., a thinker,a diplomat, an architect, a musician, a scientist and inventor. Though he lived 83 years, he never ceased to be young in spirit. He was always learning something new, always rying to contribute to human Thomas Jefferson progress

Background Information As a person, he is always fascinating because he did so many different things so well. His interests and talents covered a really amazing range. Besides being a well-known statesman（政 治家）, he was a writer, a thinker, a diplomat, an architect, a musician, a scientist and inventor. Though he lived 83 years, he never ceased to be young in spirit. He was always learning something new, always trying to contribute to human progress. Thomas Jefferson

Background Information He did not have any personal ambition however. he once wrote: I had rather be shut up in a very modest village, with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it likes than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give The society he thought of as ideal was one where landowning farmers could live under as little Thomas Jefferson government as possible

Background Information He did not have any personal ambition, however. He once wrote: "I had rather be shut up in a very modest village, with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it likes than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give." The society he thought of as ideal was one where landowning farmers could live under as little Thomas Jefferson government as possible