Lesson 1 Face to face with Hurricane Camille By Joseph P. Blank
Teaching aim & procedures Teaching aim: Learn to appreciate and try to make some comment on the text Procedures: Description Interpretation Evalution
Procedures & approaches ProceduresApproaches DescriptionAsking and answering questions InterpretationParaphrasing and translating key words, phrases, sentences EvaluationStylistic analysis
Description of the text Asking and answering questions An overall view of the text Part 1: befeore the hurricane attacks Making preparations Part 2: during the hurricane attacks Fighting and struggling with it Part 3: after the hurricane attacks Reconstructing their homes
Decscription of the text Questions for general idea of the text 1. Why did John Koshak decide to stay and face the dangers of a devasting hurricane? Having consulted his parents & longtime friend, Having experienced another hurricane attack The new house being much safer (23 feet above sea level, 250yards away from the sea) He didn’t think the family was in any real danger.
Decscription of the text 2. What does “Magna Products ” stand for? The name of the firm owned by John Koshak; Designing & developing educational toys & supplies
Decscription of the text 33. Why did Charlie think they were in real trouble when he found the water tasted salty? SSaulty water was sea water; SSea water has reached the home; TThey might be washed into the sea by tidal wave
4. Why did Grandmother Koashak, at the critical moment, tell her husband she loved him? She thought they might die at any moment; She showed the most dearest & precious to her huaband; Courage and comfort to each other
Decscription of the text 5. Why did John Koshak feel a crushing guilt? It was he who made the final decision to stay and face the hurricane; It was so dangerous that they might die.
Decscription of the text 6. why did Grandmother Koshak ask the children to sing? By doing so, she could lessen tension & boost morale (confidence, enthusiasm, determination of esp. a group) 鼓舞士气
Decscription of the text 77. What did Janis understand when John put his arm around her? JJanis knew that John is trying to comfort & encourage her for he too felt that there was great possibility of their dying in the storm.
Questions for details of each paragraph Para. 1 1. How did John Koshak know that hurricane Camille was sure to attack them? 2. What did many others do to avoid this attack?
Decscription of the text Para.2 Whom did John Koshak consult before making his final decision? Para. 3 1. What do you know about Magna Products’ 2. How this situation differs from the previous one?
Decscription of the text Para. 4 What’s the attitude & suggestion of elder Koshak to his son? Para. 5 What preparations did they do before the hurricane attacks? Para. 6 Who would stay together to face the hurricane?
Decscription of the text Para. 7 The beginning of the hurricane: What problems did they face? How about the rain, the wind and the bad influence they brought? How about their feeling? Worried, anxious
Decscription of the text Para.8 The hurricane is becoming more severe: The roar of the wind; The shooking of the house; The falling of the ceiling in the living room; The breaking up of the French doors & the windows upstaires The rising of the water to their ankles
Decscription of the text Para. 9 The breaking away of the front door The coming of the sea water; The veil effort to retreat the water; The going out of the lights; The continuous and quick rising of the water in the house What makes people frightened most: the darkness
Decscription of the text Para. 10 The first round fight: the appearance of the conflict the hero/protagonist 主角 VS. the antagonist /enemy 对手
Decscription of the text Para. 11 People’s diversion from fighting against it to self-protection The transmission of the children; Going out to try to escape by car; Returning back to the house Serious actions to show tension
Decscription of the text PPara. 12 TThe tension, terror, and the description of the little animals SSuspense increases esp in Para. 13 PPara. 13 WWind: roaring like a train WWater: inching its way up the steps; HHouse: shuddering & shifting WWalls: collasping PPeople: in silence(death is becoming possible)
Paras different manifestation of feelings facing death: Feeling of the neighbord(mother & son); Feeling of grandmother Koshak Feeling of John Koshak
Decscription of the text Paras The estimation of the hurricane (the greatest recorded storm; its disastrous damages); What happened to Richelieu Apartment during the attack of the hurricane?
Decscription of the text Paras Being desperately driven by the hurricane: 1. constant actions taken; 2. grandma Koshak’s proposal of singing a song & elder Koshak’s feeling; 3. Janis’s feeling and the wife’s understanding of his feeling;
Decscription of the text Paras The most critical moment: with no natural shelter, the adults are trying to protect the children by shouldering and heading the matress; Para. 27 The climax of tension & danger
Decscription of the text Para. 28 What did the survivors see when returning back? Dead bodies of human beings & animals; Strips of clothes and power lines; Para. 29 Their realization of having nowhere to stay. They became homeless.
Decscription of the text Para : the rehabilitation ( 恢复正常生活 ) Help & aids to the devastated coastal area from allover the country: The Missicippi National Guard & civil defense units; The Salvation Army; The Red Cross; Donations, household & medical supplies
Decscription of the text Para.32 The leaving of Hurricane Camille Para The reorganization and reconstruction Para. 35 The coming back of the cat and the dog;
Decscription of the text Paras The disaster made people even more courageous: John, his father, his mother How do you understand what the grandmother says in the last paragraph: “we lost practically all our possessions, but the family came through it. When I think of that, I realize we lost nothing important”?
Interpretation of the text: words, phrases & sentences The title: face to face with: confront one another E.g. Face to face with the enemy/ tiger/ problem Hurricane: violent storm with extremely strong wind Para.1 1. Radio & TV warnings had sounded… Radio and TV had broadcast warnings of potential hurricanes. 2. lash: strike with great force 3. pummel: to beat or hit with repeated blows 4. to flee inland to safer ground: ran away to the interior of the country 5. the coastal community: people living together in towns, cities, or villages, along the coast 6. be reluctant to do : not willing, unwilling
Interpretation of the text Para. 3 1. Correspondence: letters 2. demolish: tear down, smash to pieces 3. motel: moterist + hotel 4. We’re elevated 23 feet, and we’re a good 250 yards from the sea. We’re 23 feet above the sea level. We are at least 250 yards distant from the sea. E.g. we waited a good six hours. 5. bother: no hurrican has ever caused any damage to it.
Interpretation of the text Para. 4 We can batten down and ride it out. Metaphor We can make the necessary preparations and survive the hurricane without much damage. Ride it out: to stay afloat;
Paragraph 5 1. methodically: systematic, orderly 2. water mains: water pipes 3. A power failure was likely:… was possibly to be cut off 4. check out: to examine 5. …wired several light bulbs to it and prepare a connection to the refrigerator. Connected by wire
Interpretation of the text Para. 6 1. scudded in: driven inland by the wind 2. come by: (AE) to pay a visit
Paragraph 7 1. Wind and rain now whipped the house. Strong wind and rain was lashing the house as if with a whip (Metaphor) 2. stay away from: keep away from 3. concerned about: worried about 4. As the wind mounted to a roar,… the sound of the wind gets lorder as the the force of the wind increases
Interpretation of the text Para. 8 1. overwhelming: domianting 2. gun-like reports: loud explosive noise like guns being fired 3. disintegrated: break into pieces, break up
Paragraph 9 1. flinge: throw, cast 2. shove: push, thrust 3. The generator was doused, and the lights went out: Water gets into the generator and put it out. It stopped producing electricity so the lights went out.
Interpretation of the text Para. 12 1. scrample: move with hands and legs 2. interior walls: walls inside the house (walls not direcly exposed to wind and rain) 3. litter: young cats and dogs born at the same time to the same mother
Paragraph 13 1. shudder: tremble 2. water inches its way up the steps: water rose on the steps of the staircase inch by inch
Interpretation of the text Para. 14 Cluth: hold tightly On the verge of: at or close to the point where sth. new begins or takes place Para. 15 With outward calm: to appear calm; he felt frightened himself.
Paragraph 17 1. lap: move or strike gently with a light, splashing sound 2. a crushing guilt: an overwhelming guilt As John watched the water inch its way up the steps, he felt a strong sense of guilt because he blamed himself for endangering the whole family by deciding not to flee inland
Paragraph 17 3. ferocity: the destructive force and power of the hurricene 4. Get us through this mess: Oh God, please help us to get through this storm safely Mess: a state of trouble or difficulty
Interpretation of the text Para. 18 1. in one mighty swipe: in a big, hard, sweeping blow 2. skim: to throw A moment later… through the air: personification, the hurricane acting as a very strong person lifting sth heavy and throwing it through the air 3. marooned: helpless, isolated by the storm .
Paragraph 19 1. grade: classify according to the destructive force and power 2. In its concentrated breadth of some 70 miles it shot out winds of nearly 200 m.p.h. and raised tides as high as 30 feet:the hurricane was concentrated within a brendth of about 70 miles and in this area the hurricane threw or hurled out winds that reached nearly 200 m.p.h.
Paragraph 19 3. It devasted everything in its swath: destroyed everything in its path 4. It seized… miles away: personification. The hurricane acting as a very strong person lifting something very heavy and throwing it 3 and a half miles away 5. It tore 3 large cargo ships frm their moorings and beached them: 3 large carco ships were torn free from the cables and anchors that held them and were grounded on the beach.
Interpretation of the text Para. 20 1. a hurricane party: a party held especially for watching the hurricane 2. wipe out: destroy completely 3. to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point: people in the Richelieu Apartments held a party to enjoy the unsual and impressive spectacle of the hurricane because the apartment provided an unsually clear and broad view of the storm (transferred epithet) 3. perished: disappeared
Paragraphs Para. 21 She carried…trail away: the Grandma sang a few words alone and then her voice gradually grew dimmer and stopped. Para. 22 With two walls…television room: because the two walls of the bedroom where they were seeking shelter were breaking up, John ordered everyone to go into the television room
Paragraphs Para. 24 1. Without reason… into the TV romm:He did not drag the two pieces of furniture into the TV room for a special purpose. 2. a cedar chest: a box made of cedar wood 3. a double mattress: a bed mattress for a double bed 4. it toppled on him: the wall disintegrated and brisks and plasters ( 灰泥 ) fell on him.
Para. 25 1. Make it a lean-to against the wind: Put up the mattress as a protection against the wind. 2. a lean-to ( 披屋 ): a shed or other small outbuilding with a sloping roof, the other end of which rests against the wall of another building 3. prop … up ： use a prop or props to raise sth to prevent it from falling 支撑， 用支柱支起
Interpretation of the text Para.26 1. a sliding bookcase: a bookcase with sliding panels ( 镶板，嵌板 ) 2. lap: make gentle splashing sound 3. Slanting: leaning in a particular direction ( 倾 斜 ) 4. hinge: fastern with a hinge 用合页链接 5. if the floor goes, … on this: if the floor disintegrates, let’s put the children on this wooden door.
Paragraphs Para. 27 The main thrust of Cammille had passed: the direct and forceful attack of the hurricane had passed Para. 28 1. Strew … with: decorate with… e.g. Strew a road with flowers/ strew flowers on the road 2. Strips of clothing festooned the...over the roads: (Metaphor) Bits of clothing were hanging on the trees as if decorating them with festoons ( 花彩 ).
Paragraph 29 1. Spaghetti: Italian noodle 2. blown down power lines… over the roads: Simile, blown down power lines compared to black Spaghetti (black: because of the color of the power lines) 3.trying …before their eyes: trying to fully understand the extensive damage and destruction which they saw all round them 4. What do we do? Where do we go? Indicating their helplessness and desperate plight ( 困境 )
Paragraph 30 1. move in: come into the storm devastated area 2. communications centre: places that provided postal, telegraph, and telephone services 2. debris: wreckage, fragments 3. canteen trucks:trucks distrubuting food and drink to the refugees
Interpretation of the text Para. 31 1. household and supplies… and car: furniture, kitchen utensils, medicine, etc. were quickly transported to the striken areas and every means of transportation, plane, train, tryck and car, were used. 2. portable classrooms: mobile classrooms
Paragraph 32 1. rake its way northward: Metaphor rake: to attack and devastate as it moved along 2. rampaging floods: violent, raging (extreme, 极端的 ) floods 3. Mountain slides: the fall of a mass of rock, snow, earth ， etc. down a mountain slope 4. Breaking …Ocean: the storm clouds finally dispersing ( 散开 ) as the hurricane reached the Atlantic Ocean.
Interpretation of the text Para. 33 He pitched in…: He set to work energetic Para. 34 1. The children appeared to suffer no psychologicl damage …: Although the children were still frightened by the force and power of the hurricane which they could not understand, it seemed their minds had not suffered in any way from their experience. 2. Janis had just one displayed reation: Janis displayed rather late the exhaustion brought about by the nervous tension caused by the hurricane.
Paragraph 35 1. Piching through the wreckage: picking up things that might still be useful from the wrecked home 2. It could have been… wrath of the storm: Going through the wrecked home picking up things could have a depressing effect, but it didn’t. When they picked up some useful things they felt as if they had won some kind of a victory over the storm. salvaged item: everything they pick up and could be put to use
Interpretation of the text Para. 36 But the blues did occasionally afflict all the adults: But sometimes the grown-up people felt a bit unhappy and depressed. Para. 37 1. Let’s not cry about what’s gone: Let’s not complain uselessly about what’s happened. 2. We’ll just start all over: We’ll just start doing everything again from the beginning. Para. 39 Come through: survive the storm
Appreciation of the text The stylistic perspective of the text Stylistics: linguistic study of style To review the stylistic features with linguistic description Stylistic features: also the aethetic properties / value Stylistic features can be appreciated from many dimensions.
Appreciation of the text 1. the phonetic perspective words indicating sound: The roaring of the wind; the whipping of the wind & rain on the house; the leaking of the rain in the house; the falling of the ceiling, the yelling of John Slashing, crumbling
Appreciation of the text 2. the lexical perspective 1) use of verbs to indicate action: lash, pummel, demolish, lap, swip, skim, swath, snap, smash, devastate, dump (hurricane); mount to a roar, inch its way up the steps(wind & water); scramble; shudder, shift (house) 2) use of adj.: overwhelming, a crushing guilt, the marooned people;
Appreciation of the text 3. the syntactic perspective Long & short sentence: more or less than 13 words the shortest sentence in the text: (1 word) The longest sentence in the text: (43 words) Simple sentence, compound sentence complex sentence, Compound-complex sentence
Statistics Short / long / simple/ complex /compound / compound & complex sentences sen.Num.perc.Ave. LLoc. Indi. total164100% Short9960%7.8In climax, short, simple, more; long,complex, less concise,forceful complete,definite important simple8552% Long6540%21.6discussion argument backgrund information C +C +CC 7948%
Appreciation of the text 4. The use of elliptical sentences: John Koshak’s urgent orders: “Everybody out the back door to the cars!” “we’ll pass the children along between us. Count them! Nine!” “Back to the house!” “Everybody on the stairs!”
Appreciation of the text 5. Repetition: “Count them! Nine!”; “Count the children! Count nine!” “I can’t swim, I can’t swim.”
Appreciation of the text 6. direct speech: sound rather true than told by the narrator “we’re elevated 23 feet,” he told his father, “and we’re a good 250 yards from the sea. The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it. We’ll probably be as safe here as any place else.” 7. conversational implicature: statements indicating suggestion, proposal, determinantion
Appreciation of the text 8. rhetorical devices 1). simile The children were from adult to adult like buchets in a fire brigade. The wind sounded like a roar of a train passing a few yards away 2) metaphor Wind and rain now whipped the house. 3) Personaification The hurricane lifted the entire roof off the house
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