Unit-5-The-Force-of-NaturePPT优秀课件

UnitFiveTheForceofNatureBarbaraGoldsmith1.BackgroundKnowledgeabouttheauthorBarbaraGoldsmithisanotedauthor,historian.Herbest-sellingbooksincludeTheStrawMan,LittleGloria…HappyatLast,Johnsonv.Johnson,andOtherPowers:TheAgeofSuffrage,Spiritualism,andtheScandalousVictoriaWoodhull(soontobeamajormotionpictureproducedbyKathleenKennedyforUniversalStudios)andObsessiveGenius:TheInnerWorldofMarieCurie.SheistherecipientofmanyliteraryawardsandtwoEmmyAwardsforherwork.BarbaraGoldsmithhaslongbeenattheforefrontoftheefforttopreserveourwrittenheritage.SheisthedonoroftheGoldsmithConservationandPreservationLaboratoriesattheNewYorkPublicLibrary,andtheseDivisionswererecentlynamedinherhonor.ShehasdonatedthePreservationandConservationDepartmentstoNewYorkUniversityaswellasastate-of-the-artRareBookLibraryattheAmericanAcademyinRomeandatWellesleyCollege.BarbaraGoldsmithisdedicatedtoworkingforhumanrightsandthefreedomofexpression.ShewaselectedtotheAmericanAcademyofArtsandSciencesandtheCouncilonForeignRelations.Ms.GoldsmithservedontheNewYorkStateCouncilontheArts,theCommissionforPreservationandAccessandthePermanentPaperTaskForceoftheNationalLibraryofMedicine.SheisaTrusteeoftheAmericanAcademyinRome,theNewYorkPublicLibraryandwaselectedaLiteraryLionatthatinstitution.BarbaraGoldsmithisamemberoftheAuthorsLeague,AuthorsGuildofAmerica,andPoets&Writers.ShewasafounderoftheNationalDanceInstituteandwrote"Jump!WhyDoIDance?”whichwasperformedattheWhiteHouse.ContentofthetextThisnarrativearticleprovidesuswiththebackgroundknowledge,informinguswhythewriteridolizedMarieCurie.Itgivesustrue,descriptive,andimpressiveaccountsoftheheroine,focusingonthemajoreventsthathappenedtoher.Italsopointsoutthewriter’sunderstandingorassessmentofMarieCurie’slife----trulygloriousandtragic.2.Textexplanationsthisnarrativearticleischaracterizedbyanobjectiveandsomewhatdescriptivestyle.Itcanbedividedintothreeparts.Part1(Para.1-3)Part2(Para.4-13)Part3(Para.14)Para.1-3ThefirstpartofthenarrativearticletellsusthereasonwhythewriteradmiredMarieCurieandoffersherassessmentoftheheroine.Para.4-13Theseparagraphs,thebodyofthenarration,supplyobjectiveanddescriptiveaccountsofwhatMarieCurieexperienced,vividlyconcentratingonthemajoreventsthatshapedherlife.Theeventsarearrangedmainlychronologically,mostlyintheorderoftheiroccurrence.Paragraph14Thisistheconcludingparagraphofthenarrativetext.Inthisparagraph,thewritermakesknownwhatshediscoveredaboutMarieCurieorwhatsheknewaboutherlife.Inotherwords,thewriterfoundoutthatMarieCuriewasanaveragefemalehumanbeingwiththeemotion,weakness,andstrengthsofanormalperson,andthatherlifewasbothgloriousandtragic.