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Unit 9 Mark Twain—The mirror of America I. Teaching Objectives Get to know Mark Twain’s life experience and his remarkable works Identify and appreciate rhetoric devices aptly employed in the text Learn to write the elliptical, short, loose sentences and the compound-complex sentences to achieve certain effect Learn the writing skill of direct quotations II. Teaching Tasks and Time Distribution Pre-reading questions (0.5 period) Background knowledge (0.5 period) Detailed Study of the text (3 period) Text Analysis (1 period) Follow-up discussion (0.5 period) Exercise and Homework (0.5 period) III． Important and Difficult Points Compound nouns and compound adjectives Paraphrasing some sentences Identifying figures of speech Translating some sentences IV． Important Words and Expressions father, idyllic, lasting, fever, epidemic, strike, ring, dash, project, all over, entry, shot, sorely, trend setting, starry-eyed, acid-tongued, artery, commerce, westward expansion, drain, cast, cosmos, feud, soak with, flotsam, be acquainted with, diligently, succumb, to flirt with, hone, debunk, to find expression in, to shape…into, to have no choice but, to be obsessed with, to teem with, every bit as…as, to sb’s horror, to sb’s satisfaction. V. Exercises and Homework 1. Why is Mark Twain one of America’s best-loved authors? 2.Give a brief account of Mark Twain’s experience before he became a writer. 3. What story did he write that made him known as “the wild humorist of the Pacific slope”? VI. References /ChongQ_2004_dxyy/kj/tl/tl2/index.htm /cxchun/articles/403413.html :8080/2006jpkc/ll2/jiaoan.asp 《高级英语》学习指南 第一册 《高级英语》教师用书 第一册 《马克·吐温》by Frorrest G. Robinson， 上海外语教育出版社。 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. I．Pre-reading Questions： (1). Give a brief account of Mark Twains experience before he became a writer. (2). Why did the author adopt Mark Twain as his pen name? (3). What story did he write that made him known as the wild humorist of the