Text Book Title 《高级英语》由张汉熙主编, 外语教学与研究出版社 Unit 10 The Trial That Rocked the World Teaching Aims 1. Improving Reading Skills----pointing gout the four components of a story 2. Enriching Vocabulary--- enlarging vocabulary cultivating students’ sense of word building understanding that synonyms have fine shades 3. Improving Writing skills --- making effective use of specific verbs & making effective use of description Vocabulary Text Analysis Teaching Activities Discussion Practice I .Warming up II．Introduction to Additional Background Knowledge III. Text Analysis 1. Introduction to the Passage 2. Effective Writing Skills 3. Rhetorical Devices 4. Special Difficulties IV. Questions Assignment 1. Students express their understanding of “a victorious defeat”. 2. Describe the climax of the trial 1 hour 4 hours 3 hours 2 hours Teaching Process 1
Reference Books 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English A Handbook of Writing English Rhetoric & Writing Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English 《英语修辞大全》 A Guide to Advanced English Britannia Encyclopedia 附页 Text Book 《高级英语》由张汉熙主编, 外语教学与研究出版社 Title Unit 10 The Trial That Rocked the World Warming-up Activities Elicit some information about “monkey trial” from students Describe the climax of a story 附页 Text Book 《高级英语》由张汉熙主编, 外语教学与研究出版社 Title Unit 10 The Trial That Rocked the World Additional Background Information 2
About fundamentalism Religious beliefs based on a literal interpretation of everything in the Bible and regarded as fundamental to Christian faith and morals About the author John, Scopes, a high school science teacher in Dayton, Tennessee who, by teaching evolution, was accused of breaking the law. He was the defendant in the case. As the last surviving principal in this trial, he decided to write a story describing the highlights of the trial. The name of John Scopes became synonymous with this trial, which is popularly known as the \dialogue coming directly from the transcripts of the court proceedings. This story also draws on the actual transcripts. John Scopes died in 1979 Brief introduction to the Bible and its influence 1. collection of religious texts central to Christianity and Judaism. The word “bible” comes from Greek, “biblia”, meaning “books”. 2. translated into 2,018 languages; ever described as “the greatest book ever written” 3. contains a total of 66 books, divided into two parts, the Old Testament and the New Testament. The entire Bible was written over a period of 1,500 years. Its authors include more than 25 men from a variety of backgrounds, including prophets, priests, fishermen, kings, tax collectors, and doctors. 4. its main theme: God’s relationship with man 5. Many concepts and principles of western culture have come down from it. Many common English phrases and expressions have their origin in the Bible.
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About William Jennings Bryan(1860-1925) born in Salem,Illinois. In his middle-class family, great emphasis was placed on religion and morality, not only in one's personal life but in politics and in the conduct of national affairs. After graduating from Illinois College of Law in Chicago, he opened a law office in Jacksonville. In 1887 Bryan moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, practicing law and simultaneously turning toward politics. He won a seat in Congress in 1890 and was reelected in 1892. He was the Democratic party's presidential nominee three times (1896, 1900, 1908). In 1912 he helped to secure the nomination of Woodrow Wilson for the presidency, and Wilson named him secretary of state in 1913. In World War I he advocated a policy of neutrality, hoping that the United States might play the role of arbitrator between the opposing sides. Wilson, however, did not follow his advice and he resigned in June 1915. During his time he advanced progressive causes such as women's suffrage and spoke on behalf of the common people, particularly the farmers, introducing measures, which would give them more of a voice in government. But all that he advocated had a fundamentalist basis, i.e., he was motivated by a strong religious belief and did things in the name of religion. His old-fashioned fundamentalism made him popular among some of the common people. During the last 10 years of his life, he became more and more fanatical. He refused to condemn the Ku Klux Klan because they conducted their affairs in the name of Christianity. In 1925 he appeared for the prosecution in the Scopes trial in Tennessee opposing the teaching of theories of evolution in public schools. The ' naivete' and narrowness of his thinking e merged clearly in this trial, which was Bryan's last appearance in public before his death in 1925. 4
About Clearence Seward Darrow(1857-1938) was born in Farmdale, Ohio. In 1894 Darrow began what would be his primary career for the next 20 years--labor law. During these years, he had defended Eugene V. Debs, \Bill\Haywood and other labor leaders. But in 1911 disaster struck as Darrow, defending the Mcnamara brothers against a charge of blowing up the Los Angeles Times Building, was suddenly faced with his clients' reversing their previous plea of innocence to one of guilt. In turn, Darrow was indicted for misconduct but was not convicted. With this his career as a labor lawyer came to an end. Then he embarked on a new major career as a criminal lawyer. He viewed criminals as people led by circumstance into committing antisocial acts rather than as free-willing monsters. For this reason he was a bitter opponent of capital punishment, viewing? it as a barbaric practice. Darrow's most famous criminal trial was the 1924 Leopold-Loeb case, in which two Chicago boys had wantonly murdered a youngster. For the only time in his career Darrow insisted that his clients plead guilty, then turned his attention to saving them from the death penalty. He was successful in this, partly because he was able to introduce a great deal of psychiatric testimony supporting his theories of the influences upon individual acts. In the Scopes trial, Darrow's defense, and particularly his cross-examination of William J. Bryan, who spoke for the biblical, antiscientific, fundamentalist side, served to discredit religious fundamentalism and won national attention. 附页
Text Book 《高级英语》由张汉熙主编, 外语教学与研究出版社 Title Unit 10 The Trial That Rocked the World Teaching Activities (Vocabulary) 5