Unit4 Breaking Boundaries Developing ideas 学案-2023-2024学年高中英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第二册

X-Book 2 Unit 4 Developing ideas The Words That Changed A Nation Guided Learning Plan X-Book 2 Unit 4 Developing ideas The Words That Changed A Nation 导学案 Learning objectives By the end of this class, you will be able to 1. get the historical background and meaning of the Gettysburg speech; 2.improve the ability of understanding and extracting key information from the text. 3.find out the key ideas of this unit through comparison of the two passages. Pre-reading Background knowledge The Gettysburg Address   葛底斯堡的演讲 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.八十七年前，我们先辈在这个大陆上创立了一个新国家，它孕育于自由之中，奉行一切人生来平等的原则。 Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 我们正从事一场伟大的内战，以考验这个国家，或者任何一个孕育于自由和奉行上述原则的国家是否能够长久存在下去。我们在这场战争中的一个伟大战场上集会。烈士们为使这个国家能够生存下去而献出了自己的生命，我们来到这里，是要把这个战场的一部分奉献给他们作为最后安息之所。我们这样做是完全应该而且非常恰当的。 But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. 5. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here.It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. 6. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that