【正文】 the textPart of the text:Para this opening paragraph we readers can learn a number of important things:(l)By saying “It goes a long way back, some twenty years,” the author tells us that the story took place in the past.(2)The “I39。 here is the narrator, not the author, of the story, and the author is using the firstperson narration in telling the we read On, we will find this narrator is also the main character, the protagonist, of the story.(3)Words like ”I was looking for myself“ and ”I am nobody but myself“ point out the central theme of the novelsearching for This paragraph tells us a bit about the historical background against also introduces a new characterthe narrator39。s his deathbed, he said something that alarmed and puzzled the whole 3This paragraph is about the tremendous effect of the grandfather39。s words upon the narrator, Those words became a constant puzzle for the old man said these words ironically, the boy couldn39。t understand the grandfather did not appear in the battle royal scene or any other events in the rest of the book, his words haunted the narrator at every important moment in his 4It tells us about the setting of the battle narrator was to give his speech at a smoker in a leading hotel in the time is round 1950, the place is a hotel in a Southern town, and the occasion is a gathering of the leading white men of the these in mind will help us readers understand why things happened that way and what was the meaning of all Besides giving more details about the place, this paragraph introduces the people involved in the incident the town39。s big shots, who were ”wolfing down the buffet food, drinking beer and whisky and smoking black cigars,“ and the other black boys who were to take part, who were ”tough guys.Para 6 to 9The main body of the battle royal incident is from Paragraph 4 to paragraph can be further divided into 4 subsections: the naked white girl39。s dance。the fight itself。the grabbing for the prize money。the narrator39。s 6 to 9 form the first subsection in which the author describes the white girl39。s They form the second subsection of the battle royal incident violent and brutal fight attention to the use of specific words narration realistic and They describe how the white men further humiliated the black boys even after the battle royal was of giving the money the boys were supposed to get for their performance, the white men made fun of them by making them scramble for the money on an electrified part adds to the general chaos of the whole 4790 They form the last subsection of the whole battle royal this part the narrator finally got his chance to deliver his wellprepared , in the middle of his speech, he made a mistake, but everything went well in the end and he was given an awarda scholarship for —94 They bring the story to a final narrator was overjoyed with his triumph, and that night he dreamed of his grandfather and awoke with the old man’s laughter rining in his the exercise in the textPart some translation EightThe Merely Very GoodTeaching aims: understand the article the development of the textTeaching difficulties: how to analyze the development of the article and the implied meaning for some sentencesTime distribution: eight periodsTeaching method: studentscenteredTeaching procedures:Part on the author:Jeremy Bernstein(1929): professor of physics and getting his physics at Harvard, he spent time at the institute for advanced study in Princeton and at the National Science taught physics for 5years at New York University and then at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jeremy Bernstein has also spent more than 30 years on the staff of The New Yorker magazine, writing mostly about physics, puters, and other topics in physical moves as fortably among sentences and paragraphs as among study of the text:Part about the article is called ― Father of the Atomic Bomb‖ and had been in charge of the Los Alamas nuclear laboratory for many the author considers him as merely very you think the author is right and fair in relegating Oppenheimer to the merely very good? you think it is right to say to be highly focused or not is the cause separating the great ones from the merely very good? What is your view? does the author manage to bring the people he wants to pare into the article?Oppenheimer’s anecdote: Oppenheimer and dirac meetingGottingen, talking about poetry and physicsHis decision to go to the conferenceSpender’s being at the conference—Spender’s obsession with Auden—great versus merely very does the author develop the article?He uses the 1981 conference as the benchmark and goes back to earlier times and in the last two paragraphs returns the scene to the time of technique of montage is used largely in example:The 1981 conference and the author’s indecision—(flashback to 1925—1927)earlier life of Oppenheimer and his relations with Dirac—(back to 1981)the author’s decision: Spender and Auden—(flashback)Spender and Oppenheimer(1956)—(1958)Oppenheimer, Dirac and the author—(back to 1981)meeting with Spender—(bringing the scene to 1996)concluding NineThe Way to Rainy MountainTeaching aims: understand the article the rhetorical device in the textTeaching difficulties: how to identify the rhetorical device in the sentence and understand theimplication for some sentencesTime distribution: eight periodsTeaching method: studentscenteredTeaching procedures:Part the Author Momaday was born in Lawton, Oklahoma in belongs to a generation of American Indians born when most tribal munities had long ceased to exist as vital social Kiowa ancestors shared with other Plains Indians the horrors of disease, military defeat, and cultural and religious deprivation in the 19th only chance of survival was to adapt themselves to new ’s grandfather, for example, adjusted to changing conditions by taking up farming, a decision p