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Teaching objectives:
1. Knowledge objectives:
1) students can learn some new words and phrases in this text, such as: appointment, honesty, responsibility, diamond, worthwhile, bless, make one’s fortune, suspect, under arrest and so on.
2) students can learn more about a famous author O.Henry and learn about the O.Henry Ending.
3)students can learn a new type of English writing—short story. (the six elements of a short novel: 5W1H)
Teaching objectives:
2. Ability objectives:
1) students can improve their reading abilities, such as skimming and scanning.
2) students can analyse the structure of a short story by their selves.
3) students can distinguish which is an O.Henry Ending.
3. Emotional objectives:
1) students can build self-confidence in the process of learning.
2) students can have the awareness on the importance of learning good moral values.
3) students can know how to deal with moral values conflicts in our real lives.
vs
If you are an honest and responsible monitor, but you see your best friend cheat in the exam, will you tell the teacher truth
friendship
justice
Lead-in
The short story below is about someone who has to make such a choice.
Pre-reading
Adapted from O. Henry’s short story of the same title.
O. Henry(pen name)
William Sydney Porter
(original name)
(1862-1910)
What do you know about
O. Henry
“the master of the American short story”.
known for Surprising and profound endings.
the O.Henry Award for outstanding short stories.
———the author
Pre-reading
Para7 my best chum（密友）, and the finest chap（家伙） in the world.
Para9 he always was the truest, stanchest（最可靠的） old chap（家伙） in the world. He'll never forget. I came a thousand miles to stand in this door to–night, and it's worth it if my old partner turns up.
Para11 "Three minutes to ten," he announced. "It was exactly ten o'clock when we parted here at the restaurant door."
Para16 I'll give him half an hour at least. If Jimmy is alive on earth he'll be here by that time.
…
Their friendship is true despite the differences.
Predict
Can you guess what will happen next
policeman
Bob
Jimmy Wells
A surprising ending
A plain clothes man
criminal
After Twenty Years
Short story
When
Where
Who
Why
What
How
plot
Pre-reading: About the author
While-reading
While-reading： Para. 1-Para. 2
When？
Where？
Who？
What？
Why？
About 10 o’clock at night
In the doorway of a store
A policeman; a man(Bob);
Jimmy
The policeman: on duty
Bob: waiting for Jimmy
To keep an appointment made twenty years before.
Fast reading
———the plot
Analysing the plot
Plot refers to a series of events within a story, which are put in sequence
according to the principle of cause and effect. To analyse the plot, we try to grasp its five main elements—introduction, rising action, climax,
falling action and resolution.
Tip
③climax
Line ________
⑤Resolution
Jimmy was on the beat before 10 p.m.
Bob suspected the thrid man was not Jimmy.
Bob was arrested by a plain-clothes man.
Bob didn’t recognize Jimmy and chatted with him.
Bob knew the truth by the note of Jimmy.
1
3
4
2
5
Fast reading
———the plot
④Falling action
②Rising action
Line ________
①Introduction
Line ________
1-29
30-40
41-49
50-58
Line ________
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Detailed reading
Read part 1 and answer the two Qs.
2. Why had Bob left New York twenty years before
A2
1. Why did Bob stand in the doorway of a store to wait for his friend
The store used to be “Big Joe” Brady’s restaurant, where the two men had agreed to meet.
Bob had wanted to head for the West to make his fortune.
A retrieved reformation(1903) 改过自新
safe(保险箱) in the bank
After 20 years A retrieved reformation
Criminal Bob Jimmy Valentine
Policeman Jimmy Wells Ben Price
The policemen made different choices!
Homework
Read“a retrieved reformation” and think about the following question
Why did the policeman make the completely different decision
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