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1、,How Reading Changed My Life,Anna Quindlen,How Reading Changed My Life,Unit 2,Questions/Activities,Check-on Preview,Objectives,Warming up,How Reading Changed My Life,Unit 2,Warming up,Questions/Activities,Has your life ever been significantly changed by any particular book?What does reading mean to
2、you?,Warming up,Questions/Activities,3.How has the Internet changed peoples way of reading?4.How do you account for such changes?,Check-on Preview,Please define the following words in their respective context.a small but satisfying spread of center-hall colonials(para.1)all those great houses,with t
3、heir high ceilings and high drama(para.2)America is also a nation that prizes sociability and community(para.11)a kind of careerism in the United States that sanctioned reading(para.12),Warming up,Check-on Preview,What do you know about the following novels?,Warming up,MiddlemarchA Little PrincessAn
4、na KareninaGone with the WindRebecca,Jane EyreA Tale of Two CitiesMoby-DickPride and PrejudiceKill a Mockingbird,Objectives,Understand in which ways reading has changed the authors life.Discuss the meaning of reading.Identify the problems facing reading and work on possible solutions.,Warming up,Bac
5、kground,Author,How Reading Changed My Life,Unit 2,Background,Author,Anna Marie Quindlen,Anna Quindlen the JournalistThe New York Times columnist until 1994Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992Newsweek columnist 1999-2009Anna Quindlen the NovelistFull-time novelist since 1995Author of five best-selli
6、ng novels,three of which made into movies,Her Life,Background,Her Works,Author,A critic of the fast-paced and increasingly materialistic nature of modern American life,Some quotes:If your success is not on your own terms,if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart,it is not su
7、ccess at all.You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.,Text Analysis,How Reading Changed My Life,Unit 2,Text Analysis,Theme,Questions for thinking:What does reading mean to the author?What kind of attitudes toward reading bother the author?What kind of attitude does t
8、he author advocate?,Text Analysis,Structure,1,Paras.1-9Reading has been an important part of my life.,2,Paras.10-15A crisis faced by reading.,3,Paras.16-18There is still hope for reading.,Where did the author spend her childhood?Why did the author always feel that she ought to be somewhere else?Why
9、was it“a stiff and awkward lunch”?What did this show about the author?How should the author have benefited from reading the six novels in Paragraph 2?What did reading mean to the author when she was young?,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part I:Discussion,6.What were the features of Victorian Englan
10、d?peace,prosperity,refined sensibilities and self-confidence,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part I:Discussion,7.Why does the author mention these three novels?8.What are the common features of these three novels?,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part I:Discussion,9.Why did the author prefer reading
11、to playing?Traveled across the physical world;Traveled into my own spiritual world:identity,aspiration,morality Books are my perfect island!,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part I:Discussion,10.Why does the author read?Trips to other worlds;Journey into my own world;Perfect island(alone to not alone
12、);Home,sustenance,great invincible companionSimply because she loves reading!Why do you read?Do you ever read simply because you love reading?,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part I:Discussion,Perhaps restlessness is a necessary corollary of devoted literacy.(para.5)Questions for thinking:In what wa
13、ys was the author restless?Do you agree with this statement?How do you understand Mark Twains saying,“Almost all of the writers are addicts.”?,Part I:Paraphrase,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,2.There was waking,and there was sleeping.And then there were books,a kind of parallel universe in which I
14、might be a newcomer but was never really a stranger.(para.7)Questions for thinking:Why did the author parallel waking,sleeping and reading?,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part I:Paraphrase,wander the worldcommit sth to memory He committed the notes of that meeting to memory and then burned them.asp
15、ire to sth;aspire to do sth Different people aspire to different things.Mary is ambitious enough to aspire to conversational fluency in Chinese in two months.We aspire to be the best within our field.,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part I:Words&Expressions(1),Word-formation:undersungunderestimatedu
16、nderdevelopedunderdoneunderfunded undermanned undernourishedunerpaidunderpopulatedunderusedunder-+past participle:not enough,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part I:Words&Expressions(2),Fill in the blanks.In one corner of the living room_ a club chair.I used to _ on it,reading with my skinny legs _on
17、e ofits arms.Of course,I had clear memories of normal childhood,_ the rocks in the creek that _ Naylors Run to _ for crayfish and laying pennies on the tracks of the trolley and running to _ them when the trolley _.,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part I:Exercise,sat,sprawl,slung over,lifting,trickl
18、ed through,search,fetch,had passed,1.What bias do people have against those who read much?Lazy,Aimless dreamer,Loner,Arrogant2.What is the something in the American character that is hostile to the act of aimless reading?Reading is nothing more than a tool for advancementSociability and communityGo-
19、out-and-get-going ethosAdmiration of men of action Pragmatic tradition in America character Pragmatism,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part II:Discussion,Pragmatism,Key tenets of pragmatismPrimacy of practiceConcrete thinking rather than conceptualizationNaturalismScientific methodsSkepticism Promin
20、ent figures Charles Sanders Peirce,William James and John Dewey,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,3.Why can an executive learn far more from Moby-Dick?4.What do you think of books on success?,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part II:Discussion,5.What are literary professionals opinions of reading?Read
21、to address problemsGood and worthy reading vs.bad and trivial readingWhat is the authors attitude?Careerism vs.Reading,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part II:Discussion,CareerismRead only if there is some point to it Philosophy or English majors cant do much with what they learnRead for purpose and
22、 dogged self-improvement,ReadingRead for the fun of reading itselfIntellectual pursuits for their own sakeRead for pleasure,spurred on by interior compulsion,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,6.What are the traits of the real clan of the book?Read not to judge the reading of others but to take the mea
23、sure of ourselvesLove reading for readings own sake,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part II:Discussion,pay lip service to People pay lip service to their dreams of freedom,but many feel frightened by it.see to it that We should see to it that all work done conforms to high standards.,Part II:Words&E
24、xpressions(1),Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,suspect v.(para.10)suspect sb of It is perfectly all right,because the police had not suspected him of robbery.suspect adj.(para.12)Delegates evacuated the building when a suspect package was found.be suspicious of(para.11)Two officers on patrol became s
25、uspicious of two men in a car.,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part II:Words&Expressions(2),1.What is the“lively subculture of characters”?2.What does the author mean by quoting“Until I feared I would lose it,I never loved to read.One does not love breathing.”?3.What is the authors attitude toward l
26、iterary criticism?The truth of reading is to be found in its people rather than its pundits and professionals.,Part III:Discussion,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Reinforcement,Summary,Discussion,How Reading Changed My Life,Unit 2,Reinforcement,Summary,Writing Techniques 1.symbole.g.the club chair,t
27、he parison and contrast e.g.Reading for pleasure,spurred on by some interior compulsion,became as suspect as getting on the subway to ride aimlessly from place to place.(para.12)e.g.I vs.others 3.simile and metaphor e.g.My perfect island.,Structure of the Text 1.Between paragraphs By the time I beca
28、me an adult,I realized that while my satisfaction in the sheer act of reading had not abated in the least,the world was often as hostile,or as blind,to that joy(para.10)A transitional sentence:summary of the previous part+leading to new idea2.Within paragraphmy home,my sustenance,my great invincible
29、 companionmost undersung,at least publiclyI did not read from a sense of superiority,or advancement,or even learning.,Reinforcement,Summary,The orthodox“history”of reading Exclusively for the literati and the intellectually worthyGutenbergs invention of the printing press:reading as a source of info
30、rmation for the manyConclusion of critics and scholars:literature plummeting into intellectual bargain basementMovies,televisionWhat about today?,Reinforcement,Summary,Reinforcement,Discussion,If you have a choice,would you prefer to read a book or read on screen?What do you think of the trend of micro-reading today?What impacts do you think technological development has on reading?How should we adjust to these changes?,
