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1、How Reading Changed My LifeAnna Quindlen R einforcementT ext AnalysisHow Reading Changed My LifeB ackgroundW arming upUnit 2Questions/ActivitiesCheck-on PreviewObjectivesWarming upHow Reading Changed My LifeUnit 2Warming upQuestions/Activities1.Has your life ever been significantly changed by any pa
2、rticular book? 2.What does reading mean to you? Warming upQuestions/Activities3. How has the Internet changed peoples way of reading? 4. How do you account for such changes?Check-on PreviewPlease define the following words in their respective context.1.a small but satisfying spread of center-hall co
3、lonials (para.1) 2.all those great houses, with their high ceilings and high drama (para.2)3.America is also a nation that prizes sociability and community (para.11)4.a kind of careerism in the United States that sanctioned reading (para.12) Warming upCheck-on Preview What do you know about the foll
4、owing novels? Warming upMiddlemarchA Little PrincessAnna KareninaGone with the WindRebeccaJane EyreA Tale of Two CitiesMoby-DickPride and PrejudiceKill a MockingbirdObjectives1.Understand in which ways reading has changed the authors life.2.Discuss the meaning of reading.3.Identify the problems faci
5、ng reading and work on possible solutions.Warming upBackgroundAuthorHow Reading Changed My LifeUnit 2BackgroundAuthorAnna Marie QuindlenAnna Quindlen the JournalistAnna Quindlen the JournalistThe New York Times The New York Times columnist until columnist until 19941994Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
6、in 1992Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992NewsweekNewsweek columnist 1999-2009 columnist 1999-2009Anna Quindlen the NovelistAnna Quindlen the NovelistFull-time novelist since 1995Full-time novelist since 1995Author of five best-selling novels, three Author of five best-selling novels, three of whi
7、ch made into moviesof which made into moviesHer LifeBackgroundHer WorksAuthorA critic of the fast-paced and increasingly materialistic nature of modern American lifeSome 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
8、ccess at all. You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. DetailedAnalysisStructureThemeText AnalysisHow Reading Changed My LifeUnit 2Text AnalysisThemeQuestions for thinking: 1.What does reading mean to the author? 2.What kind of attitudes toward reading bother the aut
9、hor? 3.What kind of attitude does the author advocate? Text AnalysisStructure1Paras. 1-9Reading has been an important part of my life. 2Paras. 10-15A crisis faced by reading.3Paras. 16-18There is still hope for reading. 1.Where did the author spend her childhood? 2.Why did the author always feel tha
10、t she ought to be somewhere else? 3.Why was it “a stiff and awkward lunch”? What did this show about the author? 4.How should the author have benefited from reading the six novels in Paragraph 2? 5.What did reading mean to the author when she was young? Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart I: Discussi
11、on 6. What were the features of Victorian England? peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and self-confidenceText AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart I: Discussion 7. Why does the author mention these three novels?8. What are the common features of these three novels?Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart I
12、: Discussion 9. Why did the author prefer reading to playing? Traveled across the physical world;Traveled into my own spiritual world: identity, aspiration, morality Books are my perfect island! Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart I: Discussion 10. Why does the author read?Trips to other worlds;Journ
13、ey into my own world; Perfect island (alone to not alone);Home, sustenance, great invincible companionSimply because she loves reading! Why do you read? Do you ever read simply because you love reading?Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart I: Discussion 1.Perhaps restlessness is a necessary corollary o
14、f devoted literacy. (para.5) Questions for thinking: In what ways 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 AnalysisDetailed Analysis2. There was waking, and there was sleeping
15、. And then there were books, a kind of parallel universe in which I 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 AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart I: Paraphrase wander the worldcommit sth to memory H
16、e committed the notes of that meeting to memory and then burned them. aspire 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 AnalysisDetailed An
17、alysisPart I: Words & Expressions (1)Word-formation: undersungunderestimatedunderdevelopedunderdoneunderfunded undermanned undernourishedunerpaidunderpopulatedunderusedunder- + past participle: not enoughText AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart I: Words & Expressions (2)Fill in the blanks.In one corner of
18、 the living room_ a club chair. I used to _ on it, reading with my skinny legs _one 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 _.
19、 Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart I: Exercisesatsprawlslung overliftingtrickled throughsearch fetch had passed1. 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 read
20、ing?Reading is nothing more than a tool for advancementSociability and communityGo-out-and-get-going ethosAdmiration of men of action Pragmatic tradition in America character Pragmatism Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart II: DiscussionPragmatismKey tenets of pragmatismPrimacy of practiceConcrete thi
21、nking rather than conceptualizationNaturalismScientific methodsSkepticism Prominent figures Charles Sanders Peirce, William James and John DeweyText AnalysisDetailed Analysis3. Why can an executive learn far more from Moby-Dick? 4. What do you think of books on success? Text AnalysisDetailed Analysi
22、sPart II: Discussion5. What are literary professionals opinions of reading?Read to address problemsGood and worthy reading vs. bad and trivial readingWhat is the authors attitude? Careerism vs. ReadingText AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart II: DiscussionCareerismRead only if there is some point to it Ph
23、ilosophy or English majors cant do much with what they learnRead for purpose and dogged self-improvementReadingRead for the fun of reading itselfIntellectual pursuits for their own sakeRead for pleasure, spurred on by interior compulsionText AnalysisDetailed Analysis6. What are the traits of the rea
24、l clan of the book? Read not to judge the reading of others but to take the measure of ourselvesLove reading for readings own sakeText AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart II: Discussionpay lip service to People pay lip service to their dreams of freedom, but many feel frightened by it. see to it that We s
25、hould see to it that all work done conforms to high standards.Part II: Words & Expressions (1)Text AnalysisDetailed Analysissuspect 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
26、 a suspect package was found. be suspicious of (para. 11) Two officers on patrol became suspicious of two men in a car. Text AnalysisDetailed AnalysisPart 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
27、 it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”? 3. What is the authors attitude toward literary criticism? The truth of reading is to be found in its people rather than its pundits and professionals. Part III: DiscussionText AnalysisDetailed AnalysisReinforcementSummarySummaryDiscussionHo
28、w Reading Changed My LifeUnit 2ReinforcementSummaryWriting Techniques 1. symbole.g. the club chair, the girl2. comparison 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
29、 vs. others 3. simile and metaphor e.g. My perfect island. Structure of the Text 1. Between paragraphs By the time I became 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 tr
30、ansitional sentence: summary of the previous part + leading to new idea2. Within paragraphmy home, my sustenance, my great invincible companionmost undersung, at least publiclyI did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. ReinforcementSummaryThe orthodox “history” of
31、reading 1.Exclusively for the literati and the intellectually worthy2.Gutenbergs invention of the printing press: reading as a source of information for the many3.Conclusion of critics and scholars: literature plummeting into intellectual bargain basement4.Movies, televisionWhat about today? ReinforcementSummaryReinforcementDiscussion1.If you have a choice, would you prefer to read a book or read on screen? 2.What do you think of the trend of micro-reading today? 3.What impacts do you think technological development has on reading? 4.How should we adjust to these changes?
