1. 了解猴子审判及美国司法制度等背景知识；

2. 掌握重要词语和句型用法、Transferred epithet等修辞方法；

3. 理解课文内容，熟悉文章主题思想和语篇结构；

4. 掌握叙述文写作特点，并能使用分析方法等对叙述文进行赏析。

1. 课前收集有关美国司法制度、达尔文进化论、圣经、《创世纪》、原教旨主义等方面的资料，通过查阅工具书和参考书，理解课文中的语词和并熟悉课文主旨内容；通过教师课上讲解和操练，理解课文中的长难句，掌握文章写作技巧和修辞方法，熟悉课文语篇结构；完成教师指定的课后练习和知识拓展练习。

2.单元重点

掌握transferred epithet、synecdoche、 hyperbole修辞方法

掌握narration写作特点

3.单元难点

通过动词描写生动展示场景的写作方法

1. Background Information

This article is written by John Thomas Scopes (August 3, 1900 — October 21, 1970). He is a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee at the age of 24, and was charged on May 25, 1925 with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools. He was in court in a case known as the Scopes Trial.

2. Text Analysis

The Trial That Rocked the World is a piece of narration, an account of the author’s personal experience. The author makes efforts to portray the utterly different characters of the two counsels, Clarence Darrow & William Jennings Bryan and to describe the different spectators’ actions when they were in the court. The author uses many rhetorical devices to give us a vivid and lively description of the epoch trial in the U. S. history.

3. Structure of the Text

The text is divided into four parts:

Part1 (paragraph1-9): What happened preceding the trial that rocked the world;

Part 2 (paragraph 10 to 29): about the debate between the prosecution and defense before the climax of the trail;

Part 3 (paragraph 30 to 43): the climax of the trial

Part 4 (paragraph 44 to 48): the results of the trial and also the changes the writer sees in Dayton years later when he pays a visit to it.

4. Key words and expressions

rock, buzz, sweltering, counsel, prosecution, silver-tongue orator, on one’s behalf, on hand, a jury trial, erupt, clash, build up, adhere to, literal, advance, state legislature, aim at, squarely, violate, indicate, snowball, anticipate, renowned, services, festoon, take on, sprout, rickety, hot dog, infidel, outsider, evangelist, exhort, presiding, florid-faced, shrewd, magnetic, steeped in the law, agnostic, call for, open the session, get under the way, growl, preliminary, spar, drawl, ignorance, bigotry, rampant, bigot, faggot, contaminated, snort, brandish, denounce, reconcile, jaw, out-thrust, flash, fierce fervor, political arena, champion, scorch, pop up, speak for, appeal for, duel, sip, volume, eternal, immortal, agency, momentary, hush, break into, rule against, adjourn, swarm, gaze, ponder, sulphurous, dispatch, run out of, throng, resume, squat, perch, gawk, climax, wording, position, literal, spring, trump card, authority, suspicious, wily, stride, punctuate, defiant, fervent, mop, dome, gravel, quell, forlorn, blow up, in its wake

5. Analysis of Rhetorical Devices

oxymoron, synecdoche, hyperbole，transferred epithet, antithesis, metaphor, ridicule, repetition, pun, irony, sarcasm

6. Writing Techniques

1） language usage: humorous
The author makes use of a few humorous cases to entertain the readers, esp. the encountering between Darrow and Bryan. E.g.
Then he asked Bryan if he believed that the sun was created on the fourth day. Bryan said that he did. (Para. 33)
“How could there have been a morning and evening without any sun?” Darrow enquired. (Para. 34) 
2）Skillful employment of flashbacks
Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story’s primary sequence of events or to fill in crucial back story. 
The text, as a whole, employs flashback narration. 
3）Effective use of manner verbs
Manner verbs are those depicting mainly the way of action. Such verbs present descriptively the scene before the reader. E.g. 
mop, snigger, quell, cower, whisper, scorch, etc.

Paraphrase:

1. Let's take this thing to court.

2. When I was indicted on May 7, no one, least of all I, anticipated that my case would snowball into one of the most famous trials in U. S. history.

3. The buildings along the main street were festooned with banners.

4. Evangelists set up tents to exhort the passersby.

Key:

1. Let’s accuse Scopes of teaching evolution and let the court decide whether he is breaking the law or not.

2. I was the last one to expect that my case would grow or develop into one of the most famous trials in U.S. history.

3. All sorts of activities were going on in the town and there was a kind of noisy holiday spirit there.

4. The travelling preachers erected tents to urge people passing by to believe in God.

教学模拟：美国法律审判制度与中国的区别

要求：使用PPT辅助陈述，时间不少于8分钟；就陈述内容设定2~3个问题，陈述结束后随机选择班级中的同学予以回答

Written work:

1. Analyze the language features of the defense and prosecution by giving the examples

2. Describe the trend of thought in 16th century.

Key:

1. Darrow asked Bryan if he believed that the sun was created on the fourth day. Bryan said that he did. Then Darrow enquired, “How could there have been a morning and evening without any sun?” Bryan mopped his bald dome in silence.

Darrow asked Bryan if he believed that God punished the serpent by condemning snakes for ever after to crawl upon their bellies. Bryan answered in the affirmative. Then Darrow asked Bryan if he had any idea how the snake went before that time. And Bryan turned livid. His voice rose and the fan in his hand shook in anger. “I want the world to know that this man who does not believe in God is using a Tennessee court to cast slurs on Him.”

2. The 16th century was the time of the Renaissance when new ideas of arts, science began flourish. The Church led a reactionary movement against the Renaissance which threatened old religious beliefs. They intimidated free-thinkers and even burned them to death at the stake.

Analysis of the writing skills in the following text

The waters are out in Lincolnshire. An arch of the bridge in the park has been sapped and sopped away. The adjacent low-lying ground, for half a mile in breath, is a stagnant river, with melancholy trees for islands in it, and a surface punctured all over, all day long, with falling rain. My Lady Dedlock's "place" has been extremely dreary. The weather, for many a day and night, has been so wet that the trees seem wet through, and the soft loppings and prunings of the woodsman's axe can make no crack or crackle as they fall. The deer, looking soaked, leave quagmires where they pass. The shot of a rifle loses its sharpness in the moist air, and its smoke moves in a tardy little cloud towards the green rise, coppice-topped, that makes a background for the falling rain. The view from my Lady Dedlock's own windows is alternately a lead-colored view, and a view in Indian ink. The vases on the stone terrace in the foreground catch the rain all day; and the heavy drops fall, drip, drip, upon the broad flagged pavement, called, from old time, the Ghost's Walk, all night. On Sundays, the little church in the park is mouldy; the oaken pulpit breaks out into a cold sweat; and there is a general smell and taste as of the ancient Dedlocks in their graves.

Key:

All the details are selected to reinforce the impression of dampness, depression, and gloom. The river is "stagnant, " the blows of the axe make only "soft loppings," the report of the rifle "loses its sharpness in the moist air," the church is "mouldy, " and the pulpit "breaks out into a cold sweat." Note how the phrase "breaks out into a cold sweat," though applied quite literally to the damp wood of the pulpit, actually serves to remind us of a situation that would make a human being do the same thing and leads us up to the "general taste and smell as of the ancient Dedlocks in their graves."

Items that might contradict the impression that Dickens wants dominant are left out. For example, if Dickens had presented the roaring fires on the hearths of the Dedlock mansion and the steaming roasts and puddings, he would have distracted from the impression he wished to make. The Dedlock family undoubtedly would have had roaring fires and steaming roasts, but that is beside the point.

The writer depends primarily on the piling up details supporting the main impression. Only twice does he use a word that is explicitly interpretive: melancholy and dreary. He has created what we call an atmosphere—the mood, the temper, the general feeling associated with the thing described.

1. How many types of American Laws? What are they?

2. Do you think monkey trial happened accidentally? Why?

Key:

1. There are two types of American law: civil law and criminal law. Civil law covers suits between individuals; Criminal law covers cases brought by the state against individuals; criminal offenses range from traffic tickets to major crimes like hijacking and murder.

2. The case was neither isolated, nor accidental, but was a result of the clash between modernism and fundamentalism then.