Unit3 The Million Pound Bank Note單元教案

(5)                            on the ship he earned his passage by working as an unpaid hand.answer ：2， 4， 3， 5， 13. discusswhat kind of persons you think the characters are?henry adams:proud (he earns his passage by working on a ship to england), careless( he arrived in england by accident after not sailing his boat well), honest (he asks for work not charity).oliver & roderick: rich (servants and not worrying about giving a stranger a million pound bank-note), mischievous(惡作劇的;調皮的,淘氣的)(prepared to bet one million pounds just for a bit of fun), good judges of character( they see henry is honest and proud)what do you think will happen to henry?will the bank-note help him or get him into trouble? give a possible development to the story. homework:1.                   read the story aloud and find out some beautiful sentences。2.                   finish the exercises in learning about language.* about mark twainmark twainmark twain是美國最偉大的作家之一，以他的智慧和機智聞名于世。從他的作品以及他自己對the adventures of tom sawyer《湯姆索亞歷險記》的詮釋中，可以了解到其寫作的獨特風格。mark twain, an american writer, novelist and humorist, published more than 30 books, hundreds of short stories and essays and gave lecture tours around the world throughout his career. during his whole life, mark twain carried on many kinds of jobs. from 1864, he became a reporter and travelled in europe. by the end of his life in 1910, he had become known as the perfect example of american author. behind the mask of humor and satire, his writing often criticized social morals, politics and human nature, making his literature a unique reflection of the american experience in the latter part of the nineteenth century.in the 1890s mark twain became very poor. to recover from the bankruptcy, he started a world lecture tour, during which one of his daughters died. the death of his wife and his second daughter darkened his later years. mark twain died on april 21, 1910.the writer’s introduction to the adventures of tom sawyer (1876)most of the adventures recorded in this book really happened; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. huck finn is drawn from life; tom sawyer also, but not from an individual — he is a combination of the three boys whom i knew.