本单元具体教学内容、教学基本要求、单元重点与难点
第二周：启蒙时期的文学（2节）
1.教学内容
I.Benjamin Franklin
1).life
2).works
(1)Poor Richard’s Almanac
(2）Autobiography
3) Contribution
II. Thomas Jefferson
III.close reading and works analysis:
1)Autobiography(Benjamin Franklin)
2)The Declaration of Independence(Thomas Jefferson)
IV. cultural extension and comparison
Puritanism Vs enlightenment Chinese enlightenment
1. 教学基本要求
1)To make students acquire some information about Benjamin Franklin, his life experience,his works, his contribution.
2)To develop students’ understanding of enlightenment in American literature.
3)To improve students’ abilities to spiritual concern and representation in literary works in the period of American. Independence.
4)To enhance students’ cross-cultural communication language skills and competence
5)To improve students’ critical thinking on problem of task of enlightenment in Chinese and American and European culture.
3. 单元重点、难点
重点: .
1) . Enlightenment movement in the US.
2).Analysis of Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
3). Different faces of enlightenment in Western and Chinese Culture.
难点
1) Enlightenment spirit vs. Puritanical spirit in Franklin’s autobiography.
2).American enlightenment vs. May 4th movement in Chinese
I. Benjamin Franklin
1. life
2. works
(1) Poor Richard’s Almanac
(2) Autobiography
3. contribution
(1) He helped found the Pennsylvania Hospital and the American Philosophical Society.
(2) He was called “the new Prometheus who had stolen fire (electricity in this case) from heaven”.
(3) Everything seems to meet in this one man – “Jack of all trades”. Herman Melville thus described him “master of each and mastered by none”.
