(第二部分：教學資源)

Section 1: A text structure analysis of SCENES 3, ACT ONE of 1000000 BANK NOTE

1．Type of writing and summary of the idea

Type of writing This is a piece of narrative writing, a play.

Main idea of the passage

Two rich British men offer a penniless American a loan, without telling him that the amount is 1,000,000, and this in the form of a single banknote.

2. Life history of Mark Twain

11/30/1835 Born to John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens, in the frontier hamlet of Florida, Missouri. Named Samuel Langhorne Clemens. The most auspicious element in the child`s birth was the presence of Halley`s Comet in the sky.

1861 Served as a soldier in the Confederate Army

1863 Began signing his pseudonym "Mark Twain"

1865 The Celebrating Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

1870 Married Oliva Langdon

1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1880 A Tramp Aboard

1882 The Prince and the Pauper

1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1888 Received from Yale College the degree of Master of Arts

1889 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur`s Court

1892 The American Claimant

1894 Tom Sawyer Abroad

1894 The Tragedy of Pudd`nhead Wilson

1896 Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

1896 Tom Sawyer, Detective

1899 The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

1901 Yale College - Doctrine of Literature

1907 Came the crowning honor - Oxford tendered him the doctor`s robe

04/21/1910 Passed away