山西省陽泉市蔭營中學(xué)高考英語 unit 10 American literature復(fù)習(xí)教案 新人教版

American literatureTeaching aims: Make the students make full of the materials in the textbooks. Improve the student’s reading ability and the ability to appreciate literature.Analyze the writing style of the story and have a good knowledge of the main characters’ feelings.Teach the students how to write a summaryTeaching important points: Find out time, place, characters, event, reason, plot and end of the story.Improve the student’s reading ability and the ability to appreciate literature.Teach the students how to write a summary. Teaching difficult points:Improve the student’s reading ability and the ability to appreciate literature.Make full of the material in the textbooksBrief Introduction The major themes in the literature of a country reflect important events or periods in the history of that country. Take American Literature for an example, it is mainly about native Americans, slavery, the Civil War, The Independent War, the Westward Movement and the relations between America and Europe. What’s more, most of us have read some famous novels or stories by American writers, such as Mark Twin, Ernest Hemingway , O Henry and so on. Today, we are going to learn O. Henry and his works.Teaching steps:I. Introduction of O. Henry (Page87 Ex2) Complete the following passage with verbs given, using their proper form. Best noted for his short stories with surprising endings, O Henry is the pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), who is regarded as one of the most popular American writers in the twentieth century. Born in 1862, he was brought up and educated by his aunt who ran a private school. Growing up, young William held various jobs: working for a drug store, a bank and a newspaper. In 1898, he was accused of having taken money from the bank where he once worked. He spent five years in prison, where he wrote a dozen of stories to earn money for his daughter. After he was set free, he settled in New York City, and successfully published many short stories.He gained immediate and lasting fame in the final decade before his death in 1910. O Henry has contributed to American literature with great stories such as The Four Million, The Voice and the City and Cabbages and Kings, the Cop and Anthem and The Gift for the Magi. Then do you know how O. Henry finished writing The Gift for the Magi? Please turn to Page86.II. Writing Anecdote Complete the following passage with words from the box, using their proper form. In many cases, funny little stories can be told about the way in which great works of art came into being. Just so, there is an amusing anecdote to tell about one of O Henry’s most famous stories. O Henry was known to attend to all kinds of business, except what was really important. As a result, he often failed to finish his work on time. One year, as the deadline for the Christmas edition was approaching, his editor got anxious fearing that O Henry would let him down. On the final day before it was to be published, he visited the writer’s house desperate to hear when O Henry could finish the story that he had promised to write. Asked about the story, O Henry told him, “on the bed, a man and a girl are sitting side by side. They are talking about Christmas. The man has a watch chain in his hand. The girl has beautiful long hair, which hangs around his shoulders and her back, almost like a garment. That’s all I can think of now, bur the story is coming.” While the editor waited on O Henry’s shabby sofa in the living room, he wrote the story in less than three hours. Because of its surprise ending, it became one of the most loved American short stories of all times. This is the story The Gift for the Magi. Now, today we’re going to read the story A Sacrifice For Love adapted from The Gift for the Magi. It is made up of two parts. We read the story as a whole.III. SkimmingPlease skim the passage to answer the two questions below.1. Do you know what type of literature the story belongs to?2. Can you tell me what you should pay attention to when reading it?Time: the day before ChristmasPlace: in a yard in New YorkMain characters: Della and Jim, a poor couple Problems: Della and Jim want to buy each other Christmas presentsEvent Della sells her beautiful long hair for 20 dollars, with which she buys a gold watch chain for Jim.A Sacrifice For Love Solutions: Jim sells his gold watch and buys a set of combs for Della.Ending: They both sell their valuable things for the gift to the other but both of the gifts don’t any use more, but they gain real love. Outset (para1-3) Della counted 1.87 dollars and wept because she had little money to buy a Christmas present.(plot)Process Rising action (paras4-9 & paras1-2) After having a metal struggle, Della sold her beautiful long hair to buy Jim a gold watch chain; On arrival home, she was on tenterhooks again, worrying about that Jim wouldn’t love her any more. Climax (paras3-6) When Jim saw his wife wearing tiny curls on her head, he stared at her with a strange expression on his face. This is because he bought the set of beautiful combs that Della had been longing for, but that her hair was gone. Outcome (paras7-9) The two beautiful presents don’t have any use more, because of losing their two valuable possessions. But they gain real love.IV. Careful reading Please read the passage carefully to tell me how the story happened--- the process of the events. V. Writing style:1. When you read the end of the story, how do you feel?Maybe different people have different feelings about it, depending on what’s happiness in their soul. Some persons think that the ending makes people laugh with tears--- being poor makes us feel sad while the true love gives us happiness. However, the French writer Romain Rolland says, “ Happiness is flavor of soul （幸福是靈魂的香味）”, only those who experience it truly can enjoy such this warmth, such this comfort and such happiness. As we often say, happiness is a kind of mood. We should keep a peace and active mood to treat luck and difficulty. On this condition, we can gain moving happiness in daily life. 2. What are writing clues to the story?The story is described according to two writing lines, which are parallel. One is clear writing clue: presents, the other is hidden writing clue: love. In the end, although the presents don’t have any use because of buying their only two valuable possessions, the true love is still priceless. CoupleCoupleLoveChainCombsHairJimWatchSellSellDella 3. What do you think of the language of the story? Can you give me two examples?The language is short and refine, moving and meaningful;The description of the main characters’ minds makes readers more interested in reading itin pennies; saved; bargaining;Poor Della counted; one dollar and eight-seven centswept a gray catSad Della a gray fencea gray backyard VI. SummaryThe story is well worth reading. In reality, if we want to enjoy more great works, we’d better learn to make a summary after finish your reading in which you should explain something about the plot, characters, the theme of the story and your own opinion about it. Do you know what a summary is and how we write a summary?1. What’s a summary?It’s a fairy brief restatement of the content of a text in your own words.2. How do we write a summary? TimePlaceCharacters.Look through the passage,Excerpting the informationEventReasonsEndingplot writerHow to write asummary themeMake a draft outline comments Modify: See if the content is the same as the original story and If the grammar and spelling are right Embellish: See if the language is fluent and if the transition is natural CopyPlease write a summary of the story according to the analysis of it and the pictures below. Sample writing: A sacrifice For LoveOn the day before Christmas, Della counted one dollar and 87 cents three times which she saved by bargaining with peddlers. She couldn’t help weeping because she had little money to buy a present for Jim, her husband.. She felt as if a cat, the fence and the yard seemed gray and disappointing. All of a sudden, a good idea flashed in her mind. She ran out to the street hurriedly, found a barbershop, sold her long beautiful hair and got 20 dollars. The next two hours, she turned all the shops inside out so that she paid 21 dollars for a gold watch chain which is worthy of Jim’s watch. On arrival home, she was on tenterhooks again, worrying about Jim would blame her for the haircut. Coming back home, Jim fixed his eyes on Della with a strange expression in his eyes. Della couldn’t read his mind. Didn’t he love his wife any more because she had her long hair cut off? Of course not, he bought the set of very precious combs Della had been longing for, but Della’s long hair was gone. Later, Della held out the gold watch chain to Jim, Jim said with a smile, “ I sold the gold watch to buy your combs.” The poor couple sold their only two possessions to buy Christmas presents for each other, which seemed useless at this time. The ending not only surprises readers but also somehow makes us sad and happy, which is laughing with tears. Although Della and Jim had a hard life, nevertheless their love is priceless.VII. Homework Please write a short passage about love and duty in about 200 words or describe the plot of the story in your own words.。