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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
3、, with their 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,Middlemarch A Lit
4、tle Princess Anna Karenina Gone with the Wind Rebecca,Jane Eyre A Tale of Two Cities Moby-Dick Pride and Prejudice Kill 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 so
5、lutions.,Warming up,Background,Author,How Reading Changed My Life,Unit 2,Background,Author,Anna Marie Quindlen,Anna Quindlen the Journalist The New York Times columnist until 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992 Newsweek columnist 1999-2009 Anna Quindlen the Novelist Full-time novelist since 1
6、995 Author of five best-selling 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
7、 good in your heart, it is not success 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
8、 author? What kind of attitude does the author advocate?,Text Analysis,Structure,1,Paras. 1-9 Reading has been an important part of my life.,2,Paras. 10-15 A crisis faced by reading.,3,Paras. 16-18 There is still hope for reading.,Where did the author spend her childhood? Why did the author always f
9、eel that she ought to be somewhere else? Why 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: Discu
10、ssion,6. What were the features of Victorian England? 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 Analy
11、sis,Part I: 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 Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part I: Discussion,10. Why does the author read? Trips to othe
12、r worlds; Journey into my own world; Perfect island (alone to not alone); Home, sustenance, great invincible companion Simply 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 nec
13、essary corollary of 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 Analysis,Detailed Analysis,2. There was waking, a
14、nd there was sleeping. 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 Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part I: Paraphrase,wander the worl
15、d commit sth to memory He 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.
16、,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part I: Words & Expressions (1),Word-formation: undersung underestimatedunderdevelopedunderdone underfunded undermanned undernourished unerpaidunderpopulatedunderused under- + past participle: not enough,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part I: Words & Expressions (2)
17、,Fill in the blanks. In one corner of the living room_ a club chair. I used to _ on it, reading with my skinny legs _one of its 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
18、 running to _ them when the trolley _.,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part I: Exercise,sat,sprawl,slung over,lifting,trickled through,search,fetch,had passed,1. What bias do people have against those who read much? Lazy, Aimless dreamer, Loner, Arrogant 2. What is the something in the American char
19、acter that is hostile to the act of aimless reading? Reading is nothing more than a tool for advancement Sociability and community Go-out-and-get-going ethos Admiration of men of action Pragmatic tradition in America character Pragmatism,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part II: Discussion,Pragmatism
20、,Key tenets of pragmatism Primacy of practice Concrete thinking rather than conceptualization Naturalism Scientific methods Skepticism Prominent 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
21、 do you think of books on success?,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part II: Discussion,5. What are literary professionals opinions of reading? Read to address problems Good and worthy reading vs. bad and trivial reading What is the authors attitude? Careerism vs. Reading,Text Analysis,Detailed Analy
22、sis,Part II: Discussion,Careerism Read only if there is some point to it Philosophy or English majors cant do much with what they learn Read for purpose and dogged self-improvement,Reading Read for the fun of reading itself Intellectual pursuits for their own sake Read for pleasure, spurred on by in
23、terior 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 measure of ourselves Love reading for readings own sake,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part II: Discussion,pay lip service to People pay lip
24、 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 & Expressions (1),Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,suspect v. (para.10) suspect sb of It is perfectly all right, because the police had
25、 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 suspicious of two men in a car.,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part II: Words & Expressions (2),1. What is the “lively
26、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 literary criticism? The truth of reading is to be found in its people rather than its pundits and professio
27、nals.,Part III: Discussion,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Reinforcement,Summary,Discussion,How Reading Changed My Life,Unit 2,Reinforcement,Summary,Writing Techniques 1. symbol e.g. the club chair, the girl 2. comparison and contrast e.g. Reading for pleasure, spurred on by some interior compulsion
28、, 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 became an adult, I realized that while my satisfaction in the sheer act of reading
29、 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 idea 2. Within paragraph my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion most undersung, at least publicly I did not read fro
30、m a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning.,Reinforcement,Summary,The orthodox “history” of reading Exclusively for the literati and the intellectually worthy Gutenbergs invention of the printing press: reading as a source of information for the many Conclusion of critics and scholar
31、s: literature plummeting into intellectual bargain basement Movies, television What 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?,