New Curriculum English 5-6 Day Journey (3 Books in Total)

Author: [British] Wright
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: This is a graded reading series for English as a foreign language students, featuring world literary classics. The series is closely aligned with the New English Curriculum Standards and is divided into 8 levels based on difficulty, catering to the reading needs of students at various stages. It helps students achieve the cultivation goals of the new curriculum standards in terms of language skills, language knowledge, learning strategies, and cultural awareness. The series has the following features:
- Includes classic Western literary works, helping students improve their language proficiency while allowing them to glimpse the full scope of literary masterpieces through simplified versions suitable for their foreign language level.
- According to the new curriculum standards, vocabulary ranges from 150 to 3,500 words, meeting the reading needs of primary and secondary school students.
- The language difficulty progresses gradually, assisting teachers in expanding students' language knowledge and cultural background, and enhancing their English reading skills.
- Levels 1 to 5 include one exercise per page, with a large volume of practice and a variety of test formats, which is beneficial for students and teachers to quantitatively assess and evaluate reading ability, serving as an excellent supplement to classroom teaching.
- The language is simple, vivid, and authentic, published with English annotations, preserving the original flavor of English while bilingual annotations remove language barriers for readers, fully engaging their interest in reading and making English reading easier.
Why were there slaves? Most "great" civilizations were built on the labor of slaves, which is a sad historical fact. In ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome thousands of years ago, slaves performed most of the labor but were not treated as human beings. If you were a slave, you certainly wouldn’t be a whole person! In 1835, a new agreement among European powers declared the slave trade illegal, but the children of slaves were still forced into servitude. Slaves were primarily used on large plantations growing sugar, tobacco, and cotton. Did the slave trade stop? Of course not. The price of new slaves skyrocketed until it could compensate for the risks of transporting them from Africa.
Ships transporting slaves from Africa to Havana were fast two-masted schooners. Many of these ships were built in shipyards in the northeastern United States. Amistad was one of them, originally called "La Amistad," which means "friendship" in Spanish. The Puritan shipyard owner was not entirely clear about the future purpose of the ship he built. The space below deck was very limited, and slaves were often forced to stay in cramped areas less than one meter high, with a high risk of illness.
The British Navy patrolled the slave trade routes and attacked suspicious ships. Often, when slave ships realized they could not escape the British, the captain would order the crew to throw all the slaves overboard. By 1840, as many as two-thirds of slave ships had escaped attacks. If a slave ship did not have enough food, some slaves would be thrown overboard. Sometimes, epidemics claimed the lives of most of the "cargo." This story about slaves is true!