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Unit 3

Unit 3. The Million Pound Bank-Note. Mark Twain. warming-up. reading about Mark Twain. Designed by Yang Xueli from Taizhou High School. Mark Twain. warming-up. What do you know about the American writer Mark Twain ? Do you know any of his works? Can you name any of them?. Mark Twain

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  1. Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank-Note Mark Twain

  2. warming-up reading about Mark Twain Designed by Yang Xueli from Taizhou High School

  3. Mark Twain

  4. warming-up • What do you know about the American writer Mark Twain ? • Do you know any of his works? Can you name any of them?

  5. Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens 11/30/1835 | 04/21/1910

  6. The evaluation given to him His works The brief life introduction Time line ofthe events His quotations

  7. The evaluation given to him America's short story writer novelist humorist public speaker America's best known literary figure literary giant

  8. life introduction:

  9. Time line of the events 1835- Haley's Comet welcomed the birth of SamuelLanghorn Clemens. He was born in Florida, on November 30. His mom was Jane and his dad was John. He was six of seven kids. 1870- Clemens got married to Olivia. 1858- Mark made his plans to travel to South America, but when he started down Mississippi River, he took a break from the river and went to New Orleans. While he was there, he met Horace Bixby and made him teach him how to be a riverboat pilot. 1870- Samuel thought his writing was better than newspapers and magazines, so he started traveling, writing, and lecturing. 1847- 1856- He worked for his brother for newspapers then went to St. Louis, New York City, Philadelphia and Cincinnati to work at a print shop. Then went to help his brothers with the newspaper in Kakoki, Iowa. 1874- Twain moved to Hartford, Conn. • 1857- The Clemens family • moved Hannibal, MO. 1863- Clemens began to work for the newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada.This is when he started to use the name, "Mark Twain." Mark Twain means safe water 1866- Twain traveled to Hawaii to write articled in the newspaper. He stayed there for a long while. 1859- In April, Mark Twain became a licensed riverboat pilot. 1862- Mark Twain's dad, John Marshall died at age 49. 1910- Mark Twain died on April 21,in Redding, Conn. From heart disease. Haley's Comet visited again just like the year of his birth.

  10. WorksbyMarkTwain

  11. 苦行记 Roughing  It 密西西比河 上的生活 Life  on  the  Mississippi The  Adventures  of  Tom  Sawyer 汤姆历险记 The  Adventures  o f  Huckleberry Finn, 頑童流浪记 translation 踱金時代 The  Gilded  Age, 1873 translation 海外浪迹 A  Tramp  Abroad The  Prince  and  the   Pauper 王子与贫民 亚瑟王廷之 康乃迪克佬 A  Connecticut  Yankee  in  King  Arthur's  Court 傻威而逊 之悲剧 The  Tragedy  of  Pudding  Head  Wilson 圣女贞德 回忆录 Personal  Recollections  of  Joan  of  Arc

  12. Hisworks … novels speeches short stories travel narratives autobiography classification ? essays

  13. his masterpieces The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876

  14. 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 schoolmatesof mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual — he is acombination of the three boys whom I knew. Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shocked by men and women, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what strange adventures they sometimes took part in.

  15. his masterpieces The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1881

  16. This edition presents Twain's classic American novel in an unabridged text with a reader's guide that's suitable for both children and adults.Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells the story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and a cast of characters who are sometimes menacing and often hilarious. Though some of the situations in Huckleberry Finn are funny in themselves (the cockeyed Shakespeare production in Chapter 21 leaps instantly to mind), this book's humor is found mostly inHuck's unique worldview and his way of expressing himself. Describing his brief sojourn with the Widow Douglas after she adopts him, Huck says: "After supper she got out her book andlearned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people." Underlying Twain's good humor is a dark subcurrent of Antebellum cruelty and injusticethat makes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a frequently funny book with a serious message. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  17. his masterpieces I will set down a tale as it was told to me by one who had it of his father, which latter had it of HIS father, this last having in like manner had it of HIS father--and so on, back and still back, three hundred years and more, the fathers transmitting it to the sons and so preserving it. It may be history, it may be only a legend,a tradition. It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it COULD have happened. It may be that the wise and the learned believed it in the old days; it may be that only the unlearned and the simple loved it and credited it. The Prince and the Pauper At the beginning of the story, it says

  18. his short stories • Running for Governor • The £ 1,000,000 Bank-Note

  19. “The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that cannot read them.” “Always tell the truth; then you don’t have to remember anything.” 幽默被人正确地解释为 “以诚挚表达感受， 寓深思于嬉笑”。 "Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.” “Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest.” --- Mark Twain

  20. Reading About Mark Twain ----Page 23

  21. Fast reading twelve 3.66 • Mark Twain has a meaning, which means ___________ feet deep or ________ meters deep. • How old was Twain when he began writing stories? • What is his first story? • For what was his writing famous? • Which universities honored him for his writing? About 32 years old. It is about a jumping frog contest For its description of common people and the way they talked, especially his humor. Yale and Oxford

  22. Samuel Langhorne Clemens Careful reading 1835 Raised in Hannibal, Missouri; travelled much of the US; lived for a long time in Europe The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Life on the Mississippi A printer, a riverboat pilot, a soldier, a gold miner, a business- man and a newspaper reporter

  23. Further understanding • What was Mark Twain’s life like in the last years of his life? • As a result of this, what happened to his writing? It was filled with sad events, loneliness and the loss of much money. His writing lost most of its humour and became sad like him.

  24. Discussion: What do you learn from him and his works?

  25. 2. to preview the next lesson: Reading homework 1:to surf the Internet to find out more about Mark Twain and his works http://www.online-literature.com/twain/ http:www.etext.virginia.edu/railton/ 3.To retell the reading about Mark Twain

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