Lesson 1 Face to Face with Hurricane Camille
Joph P. Blank
Teaching Objectives:
Enable the students to get a better understanding of the text.
Help the students master the language points.车位租赁
Help the students improve their English through classroom communication and after-class exercis.
Teaching Points
I. Background information
II. Introduction to the passage
III. Structural analysis
III. Text analysis
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IV. Rhetorical devices
V. Questions for discussion
I. Background Information
Three tropical storms:
1) Typhoons：Storms occurring over the West Pacific Ocean and China Seas are called Typhoons. The name comes from the Chine term Tai Fung, meaning Great wind. Typhoons are given rial numbers: Such as Typhoon 1, Typhoon 2, Typhoon 3 and so on.
2) Cyclones : Tho over the Indian Ocean are called tropical cyclones (旋风, 龙卷风).
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3) Hurricanes: Hurricane is a tropical storm in which winds attain speeds greater than 75 miles (121 kilometers per hour). The term is often restricted to tho storms occurring over Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico or the North Atlantic Ocean. The National Weather Service of the United States has ud girls’ names to identify hurricanes in the Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico since 1953 and the names were given in alphabetical order. Hurricane ason begins June 1 and ends Nov. 30. (发生在大西洋、墨西哥湾、加勒比海和北太平洋东部，中心附近最大风
力达12级或以上的热带气旋。美国国家飓风中心根据飓风中心每小时推进的距离，将飓风分为五级；一级飓风119~153km/h，二级飓风154~177km/h，三级飓风178~209km/h，四级飓风210~249km/h，五级飓风249km/h以上。)
Hurricane A (Ann),
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Hurricane B (Belinda/ Betsy)
Hurricane C (Camile),
Hurricane D (Daisy/Diana)
Hurricane E (Emily/Eve)
Hurricane F ……
4) Hurricane Camille
1969年的飓风.Camille可以说是世界范围内登陆时风力最强的热带气旋，同时她也是20世纪仅有的3个以五级飓风的强度登陆美国的热带气旋之一，她几乎扫平了美国墨西哥湾沿岸的一切，并在弗吉尼亚州造成了恐怖的洪水和死亡。丧生于Camille麾下的生命总计259人，直接经济损失达7.8亿美元。
II. Introduction to the passage
Face to Face with Hurricane Camille is a piece of narration. Simply defined, narration is the telling of a story. A good story has a beginning, a middle and an end, even though it may start in the middle or at some other point in the action and move backward to the earlier happenings.
Narration is concerned with action, with life in motion, with a meaningful ries of actions. It revolves around people, called characters, in some kind of struggle or conflict against other people, nature, society or themlves.
In the story the leading character is called the hero or protagonist and the people or forces he fights against is called the antagonist or the enemy. The actions, that is, incidents and events are generally prented in order of their occurrence, following the natural time quence of the happenings (chronological order)
As the conflict develops, suspen and tension increa until the highest point or the climax of the struggle is reached. After the climax, the story quickly moves to a
conclusion, which is sometimes called a denouement. Action (plot) usually dominates narration; however, some narratives focus on character, theme (the idea behind the story), or atmosphere (the mood or tone).
Face to Face with Hurricane Camille describes the heroic struggle of the Koshaks and their friends against the forces of a devastating hurricane. The story focus mainly on action but the writer also clearly and sympathetically delineates the characters in the story. The hero or the protagonist in the story is John Koshak, Jr., and the antagonist is the hurricane.
The first 6 paragraphs are introductory paragraphs, giving the time, place and background of the conflict-man versus hur-ricanes. The paras also introduce the characters in the story. The writer builds up and sustains the suspen in the story and gives order and logical movement to the quence of happenings by describing in detail and vividly the incidents showing how the Koshaks and their friends struggled against each onslaught of the hurricane.
The writer describes the act' ns in the order of their occurrence. This natural time quence or chr
onological order holds the story together. The story re aches its climax in paragraph 27 and from there on the story moves rapidly to its conclusion. In the last para. the writer states his theme or the purpo behind his story in the reflection of Grandmother Koshak: "We lost practically all our posssions, b ut the family came through. When I think of that, I realize we lost nothing important. "
Face to Face with Hurricane Camille: All headings and titles are generally succinct and particular care is given to the choice of words. The aim is to prent the article, story, etc. as vividly and as forcefully as possible to attract the attention of would-be readers. “Face to face”, when two people look at each other cloly and there is a kind of struggle going on between them, some kind of battle. This phra connotes a n of urgency
And in this ca one side is the human beings and the other side might be Hurricane Camille. There’s some kind of battle, some kind of confrontation between tho two sides. If you have to suffer from a hurricane, what might you feel? ---Fear, nervousness, terror, horror, endurance, determination----many strong emotions are
going to be involved and in the end, there may be death and sadness.
So we can guess from the title that there will be strong emotions the author is going to involve us int
o this excitement. So the article should be very exciting, very dramatic. There should be moments of great tensions. We are concerned with what is going to happen and at the end of the story we may be very sad or we may feel very grateful becau people have survived the storm.
The author’s task is to make his story as exciting as possible. What we are going to concentrate on is how the author choos his language and how he organizes his language, how he structures his story to make the impact on us as strong, and exciting as possible.
The story is a real story which appeared in a magazine---The Reader’s Digest. But the author has written it as if it were a made-up story, a novel of some sort. It has characters, a beginning, a middle and an end. It has an introduction and a conclusion, which makes it more interesting for us if we know it is a true story.
Hurricane Camille in 1969
Hurricane Camille in the Gulf of Mexico Hurricane Camille was a Category 5 Hurricane that struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast region on the 17th and 18th of August 1969. (e track of Camille's eye at landfall).
Camille is considered the first-or cond-worst storm ever to hit the mainland United States. Camille had winds in excess of 210 mph (340 km/h) and a storm surge of over 24 feet (6 metres) (e storm surge profile). Camille killed 143 people along Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
The storm moved inland and turned eastward. As it reached southern Virginia it unleashed torrential rains of up to 31 inches (790 mm) in some areas which killed 113 additional persons due to flash floods and landslides.
Major damage
8,931 people were injured, 5,662 homes were destroyed, 13,915 homes experienced. The area of total destruction in Harrison County, Mississippi alone was 68 square miles (176 km²). Total estimated cost of damage was US$1.42 billion. Part of the death toll from Camille was due to the refusal of people along the Coast to evacuate.
Bear The Questions in Minds While Reading the Text
1)Words that are ud to describe the power of Hurricane Camille.
2)Words that are ud to describe how people face and struggle with Hurricane Cami III. Text analysi
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1. How many parts can we divide this text into?清除的英文
Part 1 ( P.1-----P.6)Introductory paragraphs, giving time, place, background of the conflicts.
Part 2 (P.7----P26 ) The detailed description of the ferocity of Hurricane Camille in order of its occurrence.
Part 3 (p27-p39): Conclusion
ⅳW ords and phras for special attention:
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1. lash---strike violently (at); 猛击；
Lash the hor to make him run faster. 狠狠抽马使它跑快点。一级黄色绿像
Heavy drops of rain lashed the window panes. 大点大点的雨打在窗子上.
2. pumme l: to beat or hit with repeated blows.
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The child pummelled his mother angrily as she carried him home. 那孩子因其母带他回家而生气地捶打着母亲.
3. reason out----analyze; figure out; think through 分析；推断
reason out the answer to a question 推断出问题的答案, 很合逻辑地阐明问题的答案.
4. demolish ---- pull down ; tear down;
The old shabby Dorm 3 was demolished and a new one was put up in its place a few years ago, which is called Dorm 5. 几年前老三舍拆了，在那建了一栋新宿舍我们叫它五舍。
5. good ----full; complete; at least; considerable
The southern campus of our university is a good mile from here. 我们学校的南院离这足有一英里远呢
She spends a good amount of time playing bridge. 她花大量的时间打桥牌
6. gruff: adj speaking in a rough, unfriendly voice. 粗鲁的
