《高级英语1》（第四版）课件Lesson 5 Mark Twain—Mirror of America.ppt

Lesson 5Mark 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 ContentsPart One:Warm-upPart Two:Background InformationPart Three:Text AppreciationPart Four:Language Study Part Five:ExtensionPart OneWarm-up.Video Watching.Brainstorming.Discussion.Learning Objectives.Video WatchingWatch the video clip and describe it.About Mark Twain.BrainstormingMake some predictions about the text to be learned.“Mark Twain Mirror of America”Huck FinnTom SawyerRiver pilotConfederate guerrillaProspectorThe Mississippi River NovelistReporter.Discussion1.What do you know about Mark Twain?2.Have you ever read Mark Twains 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 the novel?5.What is Mark Twains writing style?.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 persons life and experience.4.To appreciate the language features.5.To learn to write a comment on a writer.Part TwoBackground Information.About Mark Twain.The Civil War .The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Gilded Age.Gold Rush VII.The Mysterious Stranger VIII.The Celebrated Jumping Frog.About Mark Twain Mark Twain Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens(18351910),Americas most famous humorist and the author of popular and outstanding autobiographical works,travel books and novels.About Mark TwainThe first 36 years of Clemens life a boy in a little town in Missouri,a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi,a reporter on the far western frontier a traveler abroad All these supplied him with copious material which he used later for his best and most successful writings.About Mark Twain.The American Civil WarThe American Civil War was a four-year armed conflict between the North and the South.The American Civil WarThe war began on April 12,1861 and went on for 4 bitter years,with ups and downs on both sides.The turning point of the war is the Battle of Gettysburg.Finally the Confederate army had to surrender,ending the war in 1865.As a result of the war,slavery was abolished and the Union was preserved.The Adventures of Tom SawyerFrom playing pirates on a deserted island to attending his own“funeral”,from exploring a bat-filled underground cave to digging for treasure in a haunted house,Tom Sawyer is a genius at getting himself and his friends into and out of sometimes dangerous adventures.The Adventures of Huckberry FinnConsidered as one of the great American novels,the work has been popular with readers since its publication and is taken as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The Adventures of Huckberry FinnIt is told in the first person by Huckleberry Finn,a friend of Tom Sawyer.The novel is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River.Gilded AgeIn United States history,the Gilded Age refers to the era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States during the postCivil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century.Gilded AgeThe term“Gilded Age was coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their book The Gilded Age:A Tale of Today,a tale of corruption and failed land deals and a loss of innocence.1st edition book cover.Gilded AgeIn 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.Gilded AgeFailed 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.Gold Rush A 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 place elsewhere.VII.The Mysterious Stranger An unfinished work by Mark Twain who worked roughly from 1890 until his death in 1910A“complete”version was published posthumously in 1916 by Twains biographer under the name The Mysterious Stranger,A Romance.VII.The Mysterious Stranger The published book version nonetheless maintains Twains sharp attack on the hypocrisy of organized religion that is the subject of much of Twains later writings.He views religion as a“moral”order to protect wealth,power,and oppression.VIII.The Celebrated Jumping Frog It is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain,his first great success as a writer,bringing him national attention.The story has also been published as“Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog”(its original ti。