Unit 5 Nelson Mandela教案
topic sentence of 5thparagraph we first broke the law in a way which was peaceful; when this was not allowed … only then did we decide to answer violence with violence.
ii. a tree diagram
(with key words of each paragraph placed in each box)
iii. a retold passage of the text
elias is a black worker in south africa. his family was so poor that he had to drop out of school at the age of eight. later on, he was able to work as a gold miner in johannesburg. but as he hadn’t got a passbook which was required if one wanted to live in johannesburg. he was worried about being dismissed. however, he was lucky enough to get some help from nelson mandela and managed to get the correct papers. after that, he began to know more mandela and his political ideas. he agreed with mandela’s views on the unfair laws against the black people and his idea about peaceful fighting. he also knew that all mandela wanted to do was to fight for equal rights for the black people. so he supported him heart and soul.
section 2: background information on nelson mandela and others
i. nelson mandela
nelson rolihlahla mandela, (born 18 july 1918), before becoming president of south africa, was one of its chief anti-apartheid activists, and was also an anti-apartheid saboteur. he is now almost universally considered to be a heroic freedom fighter. he spent his childhood in the thembu chiefdom before embarking on a career in law.
the name madiba is an honorary title adopted by older male members of mandela's clan; however, in south africa the title is synonymous with nelson mandela.
ii. courtroom quotes by nelson mandela
“i have fought against white domination and i have fought against black domination. i have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. it is an ideal which i hope to live for and to achieve. but if needs be, it is an ideal for which i am prepared to die.”
“why is it that in this courtroom i am facing a white magistrate, confronted by a white prosecutor, escorted by white orderlies? can anybody honestly and seriously suggest that in this type of atmosphere the scales of justice are evenly balanced? why is it that no african in the history of this country has ever had the honor of being tried by his own kind, by his own flesh and blood?...i am a black man in a white man’s court. this should not be.”(finlayson 84).
“out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud... we have, at last, achieved our political emancipation. we pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender, and other discrimination. never, never, and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another... the sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement.”