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1、GR3.2Text Analysis Stories Heroes Lines Main Ideas123John ParkerLeviCoffinJosiah Henson3257588687114After winning his own freedom from slavery,John Parker helped other slaves to escape north to Canada to get freedom.Supported by a strong religious conviction,the white man Levi Coffin helped black sl

2、aves to escape at huge risk.By traveling the Underground Railroad,Josiah Henson reached his destination and became free at last.In this part,the author tells the stories of three civil-rights heroes.Give the main idea of each story.Article1THE FREEDOM GIVERS A gentle breeze swept the Canadian plains

3、 as I stepped outside the small two-story house.Alongside me was a slender woman in a black dress,my guide back to a time when the surrounding settlement in Dresden,Ontario,was home to a hero in American history.As we walked toward a plain gray church,Barbara Carter spoke proudly of hergreat-great-g

4、randfather,Josiah Henson.“He was confident that the Creator intended all men to be created equal.And he never gave up struggling for that freedom.”Article2_S Carters devotion to her ancestor is about more than personal pride:it is about family honor.For Josiah Henson has lived on through the charact

5、er in American fiction that he helped inspire:Uncle Tom,the long-suffering slave in Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin.Ironically,that character has come to symbolize everything Henson was not.A racial sellout unwilling to stand up for himself?Carter gets angry at the thought.“Josiah Henson was

6、 a man of principle,”she said firmly.Article3_S I had traveled here to Hensons last home-now a historic site that Carter formerly directed-to learn more about a man who was,in many ways,an African-American Moses.After winning his own freedom from slavery,Henson secretly helped hundreds of other slav

7、es to escape north to Canada-and liberty.Many settled here in Dresden with him.Yet this stop was only part of a much larger mission for me.Josiah Henson is but one name on a long list of courageous men and women who together forged the Underground Railroad,a secret web of escape routes and safe hous

8、es that they used to liberate slaves from the American South.Between 1820 and 1860,as many as 100,000 slaves traveled the Railroad to freedom.Article4 In October 2000,President Clinton authorized$16 million for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to honor this first great civil-rights s

9、truggle in the U.S.The center is scheduled to open in 2004 in Cincinnati.And its about time.For the heroes of the Underground Railroad remain too little remembered,their exploits still largely unsung.I was intent on telling their stories.Article5 John Parker tensed when he heard the soft knock.Peeri

10、ng out his door into the night,he recognized the face of a trusted neighbor.“Theres a party of escaped slaveshiding in the woods in Kentucky,twenty miles from the river,”the man whispered urgently.Parker didnt hesitate.“Ill go,”he said,pushing a pair of pistols into his pockets.Article6_S Born a sla

11、ve two decades before,in the 1820s,Parker had been taken from his mother at age eight and forced to walk in chains from Virginia to Alabama,where he was sold on the slave market.Determined to live free someday,he managed to get trained in iron molding.Eventually he saved enough money working at this

12、 trade on the side to buy his freedom.Now,by day,Parker worked in an iron foundry in the Ohio port of Ripley.By night he was a“conductor”on the Underground Railroad,helping people slip by the slave hunters.In Kentucky,where he was now headed,there was a$1000 reward for his capture,dead or alive.Arti

13、cle7_S Crossing the Ohio River on that chilly night,Parker found ten fugitives frozen with fear.“Get your bundles and follow me,”he told them,leading the eight men and two women toward the river.They had almost reached shore when a watchman spotted them and raced off to spread the news.Parker saw a

14、small boat and,with a shout,pushed the escaping slaves into it.There was room for all but two.As the boat slid across the river,Parker watched helplessly as the pursuers closed in around the men he was forced to leave behind.Article8_S The others made it to the Ohio shore,where Parker hurriedly arra

15、nged for a wagon to take them to the next“station”on the Underground Railroad-the first leg of their journey to safety in Canada.Over the course of his life,John Parker guided more than 400 slaves to safety.While black conductors were often motivated by their own painful experiences,whites were comm

16、only driven by religious convictions.Levi Coffin,a Quaker raised in North Carolina,explained,“The Bible,in bidding us to feed the hungry and clothe the naked,said nothing about color.”Article9 In the 1820s Coffin moved west to Newport(now Fountain City),Indiana,where he opened a store.Word spread th

17、at fleeing slaves could always find refuge at the Coffin home.At times he sheltered as many as 17 fugitives at once,and he kept a team and wagon ready to convey them on the next leg of their journey.Eventually three principal routes converged at the Coffin house,which came to be the Grand Central Te

18、rminal of the Underground Railroad.Article10 For his efforts,Coffin received frequent death threats and warnings that his store and home would be burned.Nearly every conductor faced similar risks-or worse.In the North,a magistrate might have imposed a fine or a brief jail sentence for aiding those e

19、scaping.In the Southern states,whites were sentenced to months or even years in jail.One courageous Methodist minister,Calvin Fairbank,was imprisoned for more than 17 years in Kentucky,where he kept a log of his beatings:35,105 stripes with the whip.As for the slaves,escape meant a journey of hundre

20、ds of miles through unknown country,where they were usually easy to recognize.With no road signs and few maps,they had to put their trust in directions passed by word of mouth and in secret signs-nails driven into trees,for example-that conductors used to mark the route north.Article11 Many slaves t

21、raveled under cover of night,their faces sometimes caked with white powder.Quakers often dressed their“passengers,”both male and female,in gray dresses,deep bonnets and full veils.On one occasion,Levi Coffin was transporting so many runaway slaves that he disguised them as a funeral procession.Canad

22、a was the primary destination for many fugitives.Slavery had been abolished there in 1833,and Canadian authorities encouraged the runaways to settle their vast virgin land.Among them was Josiah Henson.Article12_S As a boy in Maryland,Henson watched as his entire family was sold to different buyers,a

23、nd he saw his mother harshly beaten when she tried to keep him with her.Making the best of his lot,Henson worked diligently and rose far in his owners regard.Money problems eventually compelled his master to send Henson,his wife and children to a brother in Kentucky.After laboring there for several

24、years,Henson heard alarming news:the new master was planning to sell him for plantation work far away in the Deep South.The slave would be separated forever from his family.There was only one answer:flight.“I knew the North Star,”Henson wrote years later.“Like the star of Bethlehem,it announced wher

25、e my salvation lay.”Article13 At huge risk,Henson and his wife set off with their four children.Two weeks later,starving and exhausted,the family reached Cincinnati,where they made contact with members of the Underground Railroad.“Carefully they provided for our welfare,and then they set us thirty m

26、iles on our way by wagon.”The Hensons continued north,arriving at last in Buffalo,N.Y.There a friendly captain pointed across the Niagara River.“Do you see those trees?he said.They grow on free soil.”He gave Henson a dollar and arranged for a boat,which carried the slave and his family across the ri

27、ver to Canada.Article14 “I threw myself on the ground,rolled in the sand and danced around,till,in the eyes of several who were present,I passed for a madman.Hes some crazy fellow,said a Colonel Warren.”“Oh,no!Dont you know?Im free!”Article1_WTHE FREEDOM GIVERS A gentle breeze swept the Canadian pla

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29、 l y o f h e rgreat-great-grandfather,Josiah Henson.“He was confident that the Creator intended all men to be created equal.And he never gave up struggling for that freedom.”Article1_W_POPWIN_breeze1THE FREEDOM GIVERS A gentle breeze swept the Canadian plains as I stepped outside the small two-story

30、 house.Alongside me was a slender woman in a black dress,my guide back to a time when the surrounding settlement in Dresden,Ontario,was home to a hero in American history.As we walked toward a plain gray church,Barbara Carter spoke proudly of hergreat-great-grandfather,Josiah Henson.“He was confiden

31、t that the Creator intended all men to be created equal.And he never gave up struggling for that freedom.”breeze:n.a gentle wind A gentle breeze blew over the garden.凉爽清新的微风凉爽清新的微风a cool,refreshing breeze ADD:All of the following words are related to wind.Can you match them with their definitions?Ar

32、ticle1_W_POPWIN_breeze2THE FREEDOM GIVERS A gentle breeze swept the Canadian plains as I stepped outside the small two-story house.Alongside me was a slender woman in a black dress,my guide back to a time when the surrounding settlement in Dresden,Ontario,was home to a hero in American history.As we

33、 walked toward a plain gray church,Barbara Carter spoke proudly of hergreat-great-grandfather,Josiah Henson.“He was confident that the Creator intended all men to be created equal.And he never gave up struggling for that freedom.”hurricane gustgale tornado a strong,abrupt rush of wind a very strong

34、wind a severe tropical cyclone,usu.involving heavy rainsa rotating column of air gust gale hurricane tornado Article1_W_POPWIN_slender1THE FREEDOM GIVERS A gentle breeze swept the Canadian plains as I stepped outside the small two-story house.Alongside me was a slender woman in a black dress,my guid

35、e back to a time when the surrounding settlement in Dresden,Ontario,was home to a hero in American history.As we walked toward a plain gray church,Barbara Carter spoke proudly of hergreat-great-grandfather,Josiah Henson.“He was confident that the Creator intended all men to be created equal.And he n

36、ever gave up struggling for that freedom.”slender:adj.1.(of people)slim;not very wide but comparatively long or highslender fingers a slender waist 有苗条身材的女子 a woman with a slender figure 2.(of things)slight;inadequate a slender income 渺茫的希望slender hopes Article1_W_POPWIN_slender2THE FREEDOM GIVERS A

37、 gentle breeze swept the Canadian plains as I stepped outside the small two-story house.Alongside me was a slender woman in a black dress,my guide back to a time when the surrounding settlement in Dresden,Ontario,was home to a hero in American history.As we walked toward a plain gray church,Barbara

38、Carter spoke proudly of hergreat-great-grandfather,Josiah Henson.“He was confident that the Creator intended all men to be created equal.And he never gave up struggling for that freedom.”Film actress Zhang Ziyi is a slender woman.电影演员章子怡身材苗条。thin 表示人或物的直径与长度的比例较小。例如：People usually get thinner after

39、an illness.生病后，人们通常变得瘦一些。The slender tree bends but never breaks in winds.起风时，这棵细长的树常弯曲但决不会断。This metal may be thin but is of great strength.这种金属虽然很薄，但强度却很高。CF:slender,thin&slim 这几个词都有细小、瘦弱之意。这几个词都有细小、瘦弱之意。slender 主要表示苗条之瘦，往往含有瘦得好主要表示苗条之瘦，往往含有瘦得好看或匀称的意思。例如：看或匀称的意思。例如：Article1_W_POPWIN_slender3THE FR

40、EEDOM GIVERS A gentle breeze swept the Canadian plains as I stepped outside the small two-story house.Alongside me was a slender woman in a black dress,my guide back to a time when the surrounding settlement in Dresden,Ontario,was home to a hero in American history.As we walked toward a plain gray c

41、hurch,Barbara Carter spoke proudly of hergreat-great-grandfather,Josiah Henson.“He was confident that the Creator intended all men to be created equal.And he never gave up struggling for that freedom.”slim 用于指人与动物时，其含义与用于指人与动物时，其含义与slender相同，但相同，但在引申意义上却侧重于贫乏和不足状态。例如：在引申意义上却侧重于贫乏和不足状态。例如：As a slim b

42、oy,he has now filled out.他原是一个清瘦的男孩，现在胖多了。To tell you the truth,your chances to pass the exam are too slim.实话告诉你，你考试过关的希望实在是太小了。Article2_W Carters devotion to her ancestor is about more than personal pride:it is about family honor.For Josiah Henson has lived on through the character in American fict

43、ion that he helped inspire:Uncle Tom,the long-suffering slave in Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin.Ironically,that character has come to symbolize everything Henson was not.A racial sellout unwilling to stand up for himself?Carter gets angry at the thought.“Josiah Henson was a man of principle

44、,”she said firmly.Article2_S_popwin_Josiah Carters devotion to her ancestor is about more than personal pride:it is about family honor.For Josiah Henson has lived on through the character in American fiction that he helped inspire:Uncle Tom,the long-suffering slave in Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle To

45、ms Cabin.Ironically,that character has come to symbolize everything Henson was not.A racial sellout unwilling to stand up for himself?Carter gets angry at the thought.“Josiah Henson was a man of principle,”she said firmly.Paraphrase the sentence.Josiah Henson observed/followed moral principles.Artic

46、le2_W_POPWIN_racial Carters devotion to her ancestor is about more than personal pride:it is about family honor.For Josiah Henson has lived on through the character in American fiction that he helped inspire:Uncle Tom,the long-suffering slave in Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin.Ironically,tha

47、t character has come to symbolize everything Henson was not.A racial sellout unwilling to stand up for himself?Carter gets angry at the thought.“Josiah Henson was a man of principle,”she said firmly.racial:adj.relating to a persons race,or to different races of peopleThere is a serious racial confli

48、ct in that African country.He was a victim of racial discrimination.他是种族歧视的牺牲者。Article2_W_POPWIN_stand up for Carters devotion to her ancestor is about more than personal pride:it is about family honor.For Josiah Henson has lived on through the character in American fiction that he helped inspire:Un

49、cle Tom,the long-suffering slave in Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin.Ironically,that character has come to symbolize everything Henson was not.A racial sellout unwilling to stand up for himself?Carter gets angry at the thought.“Josiah Henson was a man of principle,”she said firmly.stand up fo

50、r:speak,work,etc.in favor of sb./sth.;support sb./sthAll my friends will stand up for me.我所有的朋友都会支持我。Dont be afraid to stand up for your rights.stand up to:勇敢地面对；经得起勇敢地面对；经得起Your argument just wont stand up to close scrutiny.A soldier must stand up to the danger.你的论点根本经不起仔细检查。士兵必须敢于面对危险。Article2_W_P