三、课程性质与教学目的 本课程通过对文学作品的阅读、分析、讨论以及诗歌朗诵、戏剧表演等多种形式， 旨在帮助学生掌握文 学基本常识 熟悉重要文学作品及其相关历史语境 ,提高文 学鉴赏能力和语言水平，对美国社会与文化形成较为深入的理解，并帮助学生形 成良好的世界观、人生观，培养中国情怀和国际视野，提高批判性思维能力和思 相消德水平。 四、教学内容及要求 Lecture One Colonial Beginnings (一)目的与要求 了解美洲殖民地时期文学的概况： 2.研究清教主义及其对美国价值观的影响。 3.帮助学生了解西方文化的发展脉络，培养学生全球视野、独立观察和批判性 思维. (■) 教学内容 1主要内容 I.beginning of American literature-the early 1600s 1.Englishmen describing the English exploration and colonization of the New World (America) 2.Tales ofadventure and excitement;facts+fantasy II Captain John Smith (1580-1631) 1.a real adventurer,helped found Jamestown in 1607(the first English colony in America) 2.True Relation of Virginia (1608)and Description of New England (1616). fascinating "advertisements"which try to persuade the reader to Settleln the New World: 3.General History of Virginia,New England and the Summer Isles(1624);the first famous tale from American literature. III.Differences between the Southern:and the New England colonies 1.In the South,enormous farms or plantations used the labor of black slaves to grow tobacco.The rich and powerful plantation owners were slow to develop a literature of their o wn.They ferred hooks i orted from England 2.In New England,the Puritan settlers had come to the New World in order to form a society based on strict Christian beliefs.Therefore they had a far stronger sense of unity and of a "shared purpose".This was one of the reasons why culture and literature developed much faster than in the South.Harvard,the first college in the colonies,was founded near Boston in 1636 in order to train new Puritan ministers The first printing press in Americ was started there in 1638,and America's first newspaper began in Boston in 1704 IV.Puritan culture 1.New England histories (1)the most interesting works of New England Puritan literature 2 三、课程性质与教学目的 本课程通过对文学作品的阅读、分析、讨论以及诗歌朗诵、戏剧表演等多种形式， 旨在帮助学生掌握文学基本常识，熟悉重要文学作品及其相关历史语境，提高文 学鉴赏能力和语言水平，对美国社会与文化形成较为深入的理解，并帮助学生形 成良好的世界观、人生观，培养中国情怀和国际视野，提高批判性思维能力和思 想道德水平。 四、教学内容及要求 Lecture One Colonial Beginnings （一） 目的与要求 1. 了解美洲殖民地时期文学的概况； 2. 研究清教主义及其对美国价值观的影响。 3. 帮助学生了解西方文化的发展脉络，培养学生全球视野、独立观察和批判性 思维. （二） 教学内容 1. 主要内容 I. beginning of American literature — the early 1600s: 1. Englishmen describing the English exploration and colonization of the New World (America) 2. Tales of adventure and excitement; facts + fantasy II. Captain John Smith (1580-1631) l. a real adventurer; helped found Jamestown in 1607 (the first English colony in America) 2. True Relation of Virginia (1608) and Description of New England (1616); fascinating “advertisements” which try to persuade the reader to Settle1n the New World; 3. General History of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles (1624); the first famous tale from American literature. III. Differences between the Southern: and the New England colonies 1. In the South, enormous farms or plantations used the labor of black slaves to grow tobacco. The rich and powerful plantation owners were slow to develop a literature of their own. They preferred books imported from England 2. In New England, the Puritan settlers had come to the New World in order to form a society based on strict Christian beliefs. Therefore they had a far stronger sense of unity and of a “shared purpose”. This was one of the reasons why culture and literature developed much faster than in the South. Harvard, the first college in the colonies, was founded near Boston in 1636 in order to train new Puritan ministers. The first printing press in America was started there in 1638, and America's first newspaper began in Boston in 1704. IV. Puritan culture 1. New England histories (1) the most interesting works of New England Puritan literature