高级英语课件

III. StructuralBiblioteka BaiduAnalysis
Section
2. (Young Mark...that invented retreating) early years of life on the Mississippi and as a Confederate guerrilla Section 3. (He went west...best-seller.) On his way to success Section 4. (At the age...renew our edges.) Comments on his best works.
Lesson 9
Mark
Twain ---
Mirror of America
Clemens's house in Hartford
Grave of Mark Twain Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, NY
I. Background Information:
National
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But
Tom has read many books and wants to make his life just as bright as it is depicted in the stories. He devises games in which the boys play the role of brave outlaws and warlike Red Indians who are the terror of the rich and the oppressors.
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They started down the river, come across all sorts of people and have lots of fun and adventures. Toward the end of the novel Jim is caught and imprisoned at a farm, and Huck and Tom make a spectacular but unsuccessful attempt to rescue him.
Geographic Magazine: circulation -more than 10 million copies annually, the third biggest only next to TV Guide and Reader's Digest a monthly journal run by the National Geographic Society based in Washington DC, a non-profit scientific and educational organization.
I. Background Information:
brief outline of Tom Tom lives with his younger brother Sid and Aunt Polly in St. Petersburg, a remote town on the banks of the Mississippi river. While his brother Sid is a “model” boy, Tom is quite the opposite of his brother.
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At
school he disobeys his teacher and always busies himself with outside matters at the lessons. Tom’s bosom friend (知己) is Huck Finn, a boy deserted by his drunkard (酒鬼) of a father and looked upon as an outcast in the town.
III. Structural Analysis
Part
1: (the first para.) Introduction Part 2: (Tramp printer...renew our edges [P155, para.4]) Section 1. (Tramp printer... the settled United States) the setting, background knowledge
I. Background Information:
Biography:
Definition:
An account of someone's life that has been written by someone else. Or a written history of someone's life. Generally, it is about sb. who enjoys certain reputation, who has acquired certain fame by his / her success in certain area. The protagonist can be a positive or negative character.
II. Questions for Text Understanding
1.
What is a biography? 2. If you were asked to write a biography of sb., how are you going to arrange all the material available. What is the general way of writing a biography? 3. What kind of language do you expect to encounter and why? 4. What is the author's appraisal of Mark Twain?
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last it turns out that Huck’s father has died and Miss Watson has also died, but not before setting Jim free in her will.
III. Structural Analysis
Part
3: (Personal tragedy...forget them forever.) Personal tragedy and conclusion.
IV. Detailed study of the text:
1.
Mirror of America: A mirror: a person who gives a true representation or description of the country
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In
the meantime, Huck’s father tries to get the money and succeeds in kidnapping the boy and imprisons him in a lonely cabin. To free himself from both the boring widow and the brutal father, Huck runs away to a deserted island in the middle of the Mississippi river.
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In doing so, he makes it appear that he has been murdered by some robbers. On the island he meets Jim, Miss Watson’s runaway slave, and the two become close friends.
I. Background Information: A brief outline of Huck Tom and Huck find the money. They each get six thousand dollars, which they deposit with Judge Thatcher. The Widow Douglas takes Huck for her son and tries to “civilize” him.
I. Background Information: Another night, the boys went out to dig for hidden treasures near a deserted house three miles from town. There they almost fall into the hands of the murderer who accidentally finds a box filled with gold coins.
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Shortly
after the incident Tom goes to a picnic with a party of schoolmates. Exploring a cave, he gets lost with Becky Thatcher, the daughter of the Judge. Tom behaves like a brave boy, calms Becky’s fears and finds the way out of the cave.
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a few days’ time Tom and Huck return to the cave. They find the dead body of the murderer, who could not have found the way out of the cave and also the hidden treasures.
II. Questions for Text Understanding
5.
Who was Mark Twain ? What had he been before he became an author? And where did his pen name come from? 6. Say something about the historical background of Mark Twain's time. 7. How many stages do you think the author divide Mark Twain's life into?
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One
night the boys involuntarily witness the murder of Dr. Robinson. An innocent man is charged with the crime. But on the day of the trial Tom fearlessly exposes the real criminal the Indian Joe who escapes through an open window of the courtroom.