英语unit_6_最后一片常春藤叶

2. Why did Johnsy count the leaves?
When the last leaf fell she would die.
What was, at first, Johnsy determined to do if the last ivy leaf should fall? She made up her mind to die when the last leaf fell.
The third Scene
Characters
Johnsy, Sue
Event
Johnsy decided that she would die when the last ivy leaf fell.
• What could Johnsy see while lying in bed? • Why did Johnsy count the leaves?
Cabbages and Kings
His main works
(1904) (a collection of stories) The Four Million (1906)
(a collection of stories) The Heart of the West
(1907) (a collection of stories)
Characters
The doctor told Sue that Johnsy needed a strong will to live on.
Event
• According to the doctor, how would Johnsy be able to recover from pneumonia? • What had been Johnsy’s ambition before she fell ill? • How did Sue went into Johnsy’s room? Why ?
The Last ivy Leaf stand for ------ life and hope
What do you know about O. Henry?
Born: on September 11, 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina Died: on June 5, 1910 Experiences: worked as a bookkeeper, pharmacist, sheepherder, draftsman, journalist, and clerk; was in prison for three years. Works: more than 270 short stories and a novel.
• Johnsy and Sue are artists who move into Greenwich Village in New York City. As Winter approaches and the weather gets colder, Johnsy becomes ill with pneumonia. She gets so sick that she believes that when the last leaf falls from the vine outside her window, she will die. An old artist, named Behrman, who lives in the same building as the girls, braves a storm one night to paint a leaf on the wall — a leaf that will never fall. Cold and wet from painting in the icy rain, he catches pneumonia and dies. This gives Johnsy the hope to survive her illness, and it also creates the masterpiece Behrman had always dreamed of painting
The seventh Scene
Characters
Sue, Johnsy Sue told Johnsy that Behrman had performed a kind deed without any thought of self.
Event
Why did Sue call the painted leaf Behrman’s masterpiece?
The first scene
Characters
Event
Sue’s roommate Johnsy caught pneumonia
The first scene
• What made Sue and Johnsy decided to set up a joint studio? They had the same taste. • What happened to Johnsy? she caught Pneumonia.
The fifth Scene
Characters
Sue, Johnsy
Event
As Johnsy was encouraged by the last leaf that wouldn’t give in to the weather, her will to live returned.
• What did Johnsy see out of her window the next morning? She saw the ivy leaf was still there.
The fourth Scene
Characters
Berman, Sue
Event
She told Berman about Johnsy’s fancy.
Old Behrman
painter live on the ground floor over sixty long white beard a failure in art serving as a model fierce little man regarded as himself as guard dog
The sixth Scene
Characters
the doctor, Sue
Event
The doctor told Sue that Johnsy would Recovered but Behrman caught pneumonia himself and his case was hopeless.
background
• In November a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctor called Pneumonia, killed many people. Johnsy was among his victims.
the Second Scene
Do you think Behrman had a wish?
Masterpiece
• What did Behrmn react when he heard of Johnsy’s fancy?
• Why did Johnsy see out of her window fearfully at the ivy vine?
• What effect did the last leaf produce on Johnsy? She decided not to give up her life.
How was it that the cold fierce wind did not blow away the last leaf? Behrman, a kind neighbor, who was aware of Johnsy’s state of mind, risked death to paint the last leaf and save her.
reading
In 1899, Greenwich Village 源自文库n New York City
when
where
Story
who
what
Sue characters
Johnsy
Behrman
the doctor
the main characters
I'm just a poor artist living with my best friend Johnsy. It's getting really cold, and Johnsy has come down with pneumonia. The doctor doesn't give Johnsy much hope of surviving. This breaks my heart.
Because it was so perfect the girls both mistook it for the real thing.
Debate
• Many years ago, a college student lost his life to save an old farmer’s life, which aroused a heated discussion among people. Some thought that it was not worthwhile for a college student who might contribute a lot to the society in the future to risk death for an old life, while some other people held the opposite view. What is your opinion? Make a debate about whether it was worthwhile for Behrman to risk death to save Johnsy’s life?
I feel so sick and I’m tired. I know I will die soon. I just want to hold on until the last leaf of the Ivy branch falls. Soon the last leaf wll fall, and I will What is this nonsense? die, too. The little girl thinks she will die when a leaf falls from a vine? This is crazy i must do something to protect the poor little thing
The Last Leaf
O.Henry
• ivy [aivi] n.〈植〉常春藤
常春藤是一种神奇、十分美好的常绿 藤本植物，预示春天长驻，并且象征忠诚 的意义。在希腊神话中，常春藤代表酒神∶ 迪奥尼索司(Dionysus)，深得人们的喜爱。
symbolizes ：
Love faithful friendship happy energy activity forever
• What was, at first, Johnsy determined to do if the last ivy leaf should fall?
1. What could Johnsy see while lying in bed?
There was only a bare dreary yard to be seen, and the blank side of the brick house. An old, old ivy vine climbed half way up the brick wall. The cold breath of autumn had blown away its leaves, leaving it almost bare.
The Cop and the Anthem The Gift of the Magi The Last Leaf The Furnished Room
Please tell me the five elements of a novel: time, place, persons, event and end.