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PAGE PAGE 8 Unit Nine Mark Twain Mirror of America Teaching Periods: 8 Teaching Object: English majors of junior year Teaching Aims ·To enable students to get better understanding of the text ·To help students learn to use new words and useful expressions in the text ·To acquaint students with the major events in the history of USA. ·To acquaint students with the life and writing of Mark Twain. ·To acquaint students with the writing of biography. ·To help students appreciate the rich rhetorical devices in the text Teaching Focus: ·Cultural Information ·Language points and expressions ·Main idea summarizing ·Figures of speech ·Writing practice Teaching Difficulties: ·Paraphrasing some sentences ·Identifying figures of speech ·Appreciation of the biography style of writing Teaching Procedures ·Background information ·Detailed study of the text ·Structural analysis ·Rhetorical devices and effective writing skills ·Questions ·Exercise Time Allocation: 8 periods, 360minutes ·Background information (20 minutes) ·Intensive study of the text (250 minutes) ·Exercise (90 minutes) I. Background Information Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens( 1835-1910), America’s most famous humorist and the author of popular and outstanding autobiographical works, travel books and novel. The first 36 years of Clemens’s life as a boy in a little town in Missouri, as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, as a reporter on the far western frontier and as a traveler aboard supplied him with copious material which he used later for his best and most successful writings. 1) Boyhood Born in the small village of Florida, Missouri on Nov. 30, 1935, young Clemens was the third son and sixth child of a storekeeper( and at times also a lawyer). As Father’s business failed, the family had to move to Hannibal when Samuel was 4, where he spent his boyhood, enchanted by the romance and awed by the violence of river lifethe steamboats, keelboats, and giant lumber rafts and