文档介绍：吉林大学 公共外语教育学院
第七教研室
张磊
American Dream
Text A Tony Trivisonno’s American Dream
UNIT 4
Teaching plan
Warming-up activities: general discussion prehension about the theme
Text analysis: knowledge of the structure and details description about the text
Assignment: further understanding of the theme
James Truslow Adams
American writer, historian and Pulizer Prize-winner
(October 18, 1878 – May 18, 1949)
Adams coined the term "American Dream" in his 1931 book The Epic of America.
"The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement…… It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position."
──James Truslow Adams
" We hold certain truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness."
—Land of immigrants
USA
Figures who lived
the American dream