Lesson 6Book 1

Mark Twain — Mirror of America (Excerpts)By Noel Grove 本单元作者：颜静兰

外语教学与研究出版社 FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND RESEARCH PRESS

Contents Part One: Warm-up Part Two: Background Information Part Three: Text Appreciation Part Four: Language Study

Part Five: Extension

Part One—Warm-up Ⅰ. Video Watching Ⅱ. Brainstorming Ⅲ. Discussion Ⅳ. Learning Objectives

Ⅰ. Video WatchingWatch the video clip and describe it.

About Mark Twain

Ⅱ. BrainstormingMake some predictions about the text to be learned. Tom Sawyer Huck Finn Reporter River pilotConfederate guerrilla

ProspectorThe Mississippi River

Novelist

―Mark Twain — Mirror of America‖

Ⅲ. Discussion1. What do you know about Mark Twain? 2. Have you ever read Mark Twain‘s novels?

3. Which novel impresses you most? Why?4. Do you like the naughty but clever boy Tom in Tom

Sawyer? What attracts you most while reading thenovel? 5. What is Mark Twain‘s writing style?

Ⅳ. Learning Objectives1.To know the writing style of Mark Twain.2.To be acquainted with some rhetorical devices. 3.To learn to use words and expressions to describe a person‘s life and experience. 4.To appreciate the language features. 5.To learn to write a comment on a writer.

Part Two—Background Information

Ⅰ. About Mark Twain Ⅱ. The Civil War Ⅲ. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Ⅳ. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ⅴ. Gilded Age Ⅵ. Gold Rush VII. The Mysterious Stranger VIII. The Celebrated Jumping Frog

Ⅰ. About Mark TwainMark Twain Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens

(1835–1910), America‘s mostfamous humorist and the author of popular and outstanding autobiographical works, travel books and novels.

Ⅰ. About Mark TwainThe first 36 years of Clemens‘ life a boy in a little town in Missouri, a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi,

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Ⅴ. Gilded Age In this period, not only the role of women was being

challenged. Industrialists, corporations, utilities,bankers, and brokers were increasingly viewed as an enemy by the working class, whose wages had stagnated while men who were already millionaires got richer.

Ⅴ. Gilded Age Failed land deals, speculation, and corruption were prevalent. Many workers went from being independent tradesmen to being wage laborers concentrated in

large factories. Millions of immigrants swelled the population of U.S. cities and began to compete for jobs. Labor unions were born to represent these angry and beleaguered workers.

Ⅵ. Gold RushA gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers to an area that

has had a dramatic discovery of gold.Major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in Australia, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, and the United States, while

smaller gold rushes took placeelsewhere.