The Geese.ppt

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1、Welcomeback!8/25/20211YourafterclassactivitiesLearningcontentsYourGoalsinthissemeste8/25/20212Book7Lesson1TheGeeseLesson5NewYorkLesson7DiscoveringtheSelfLesson11WomenArePrisonersofTheirSexBook8Lesson2CommunityandCompetition:GettingTogetherLesson8MarksofanEducatedMan8/25/2021

2、3Makeappt.oftheauthorofthetargetedlesson(pairwork)ReciteaTEM8compositioneachweekWriteagiven-topiccompositioneveryotherweekSelf-studythegivenvocabularyinonemonthandthenanotheranalysing,thinking,speaking8/25/20214TheGeese8/25/20215AFreeTalkAbouttheAuthorABriefInterpretationoft

3、heTextTheNarrativeFeaturesoftheTextDetailedStudyoftheTextKeytotheTranslation8/25/20216AGoose’sLife8/25/20217E.B.WhiteElwynBrooksWhite1.bornJuly11,1899,MountVernon,N.Y.,U.S.—diedOct.1,1985,NorthBrooklin,MaineLeadingAmericanessayistandliterarystylistofhistime.Whitewasknownforh

4、iscrisp,graceful,relaxedstyle.WhiteattendedCornellUniversityandin1927joinedTheNewYorker;hewouldcontributetoitandlatertoHarper'smagazineoverseveraldecades.HecollaboratedwithJamesThurberonIsSexNecessary?(1929).HisnovelsStuartLittle(1945),Charlotte'sWeb(1952),andTheTrumpetofthe

5、Swan(1970)areclassicsofchildren'sliterature.White'srevisionofTheElementsofStyle(1959)byhisprofessorWilliamStrunkbecameastandardstylemanualforwriters.HereceivedaPulitzerPrizespecialcitationin1978.8/25/20218ABriefInterpretationoftheTextTheGeeseisanaccountofthenarrator’sexperie

6、ncewithsomegeesehekept．Itis，fromthebeginningtotheend，aboutthebirds，butwhatthewritertriestoconveyinthepresenttextismorethanthegoose，theganderandthegoslings，butsomethingbeyondthesurfacevalueofthings．Humanlife，likethelifeofthebirdsasdescribedinthestory，goesinacyclewhichstartsaf

7、resh，reachestheapex，goesdowndecayingandfinallyfinishes．Theyoungfirstexperiencesthegrowingpains，butfinallytheagedmustgivewaytotheyoungergeneration．Themeaningoflifeitselfisinthisregardalmostnothing，sincelifeisonlymeanttobegoinginvoluntarilythroughthecycleimposedonalllivingcrea

8、tures．E．B．Whitetakespainsdescribinginmuchdetailhiseffortstointerveneintheev