GWD-1-Q4 to GWD-1-Q6:
第一段 The fields of antebellum (pre-Civil
War) political history and women’s his-
tory use separate sources and focus
Line on separate issues. (第一句講出兩種觀點,特重要) Political histori-
(5) ans, examining sources such as voting
records, newspapers, and politicians’
writings, focus on the emergence in the
1840’s of a new “American political
nation,” and since women were neither
(10) voters nor politicians, they receive little
discussion. Women’s historians, mean-
while, have shown little interest in the
subject of party politics, instead draw-
ing on personal papers, legal records
(15) such as wills, and records of female
associations to illuminate women’s
domestic lives, their moral reform
activities, and the emergence of the
woman’s rights movement. (講來講去就是第一句話,是事實,不難)
第二段
(20) However,(講完事實通常就是考轉折,不難,意料之中) most historians have
underestimated the extent and signifi-
cance of women’s political allegiance
in the antebellum period.(第二段第一句當然是重點句,特別注意) For example,
in the presidential election campaigns
(25) of the 1840’s, the Virginia Whig party
strove to win the allegiance of Virginia’s
women by inviting them to rallies and
speeches. According to Whig propa-
ganda, women who turned out at the
(30) party’s rallies gathered information
that enabled them to mold party-loyal
families, reminded men of moral values
that transcended party loyalty, and
conferred moral standing on the party.
(35) Virginia Democrats, in response,
began to make similar appeals to
women as well. By the mid-1850’s
the inclusion of women in the rituals of
party politics had become common-
(40) place, and the ideology that justified
such inclusion had been assimilated
by the Democrats.
仔細回想本篇文章,首段呈現事實,第二段作者以however與underestimate表達態度,是一篇有負面態度指出原本觀點不對的文章