201.Face to Face with Hurricane Camille

to Face with Hurricane Camille

Joseph P

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目的

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重点

Aims

know the writing technique of a narrative.

2.T

o be acquainted with some literary terms

3.T

o learn to use words to describe disasters and violence

4.T

o appreciate the language features

5.T

o learn to write a story about disasters.

Teaching Contents

1. The literary style

2. Detailed study of the text

3. Organizational pattern

4. Language features

5. Exercises

Time allocation

1. The literary style (narration) (15 min.)

2. Detailed study of the text (120 min.)

3. Structure analysis (15 min.)

4. Language appreciation (15 min.)

5. Exercises (15 min)

课文内容

Face to Face with Hurricane Camille

Joseph P

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1

John

Koshak,

Jr.,

knew

that

Hurricane

Camille

would

be

bad.

Radio

and

television

warnings

had

sounded

throughout

that

Sunday,

last

August

17,

as

Camille lashed

northwestward across the Gulf of Mexico. It was certain

to pummel

Gulfport, Miss.,

where the Koshers lived. Along the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama,

nearly 150,000 people fled inland to safer 8round. But, like thousands of others in

the coastal communities, john was reluctant to abandon his home unless the family

-- his wife, Janis, and their seven children, abed 3 to 11 -- was clearly endangered.

2 Trying to reason out the best course of action, he talked with his father and

mother, who had moved into the ten-room house with the Koshaks a month earlier

from California. He also consulted Charles Hill, a long time friend, who had driven

from Las Vegas for a visit.

3 John, 37 -- whose business was right there in his home ( he designed and

developed

educational

toys

and

supplies,

and

all

of

Magna

Products'

correspondence

, engineering drawings and art work were there on the first floor) --

was familiar with the power of a hurricane. Four years earlier, Hurricane Betsy had

demolished

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his former home a few miles west of Gulfport (Koshak had

moved his family to a

motel

for the night). But that house had stood only a few feet

above sea level.

yards from the sea. The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever

bothered it. We' II probably be as safe here as anyplace else.

4 The elder Koshak, a gruff, warmhearted expert machinist of 67, agreed.

can

batten down

and ride it out,

before dark.

5 The men

methodically

prepared for the hurricane. Since water mains might be

damaged, they filled bathtubs and pails. A power failure was likely, so they checked

out batteries for the portable radio and flashlights, and fuel for the lantern. John's

father

moved

a

small

generator

into

the

downstairs

hallway,

wired

several

light

bulbs to it and prepared a connection to the refrigerator.

6 Rain fell steadily that afternoon; gray clouds

scudded

in from the Gulf on the

rising

wind.

The

family

had

an

early

supper.

A

neighbor,

whose

husband

was

in

Vietnam, asked if she and her two children could sit out the storm with the Koshaks.

Another neighbor came by on his way in- land

—

would the Koshaks mind taking