,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 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 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 Little 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 solutions.,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 1999-2009Anna Quindlen the Novelist Full-time novelist since 1995 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 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 author? What kind of attitude does the 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 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 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 Analysis,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, moralityBooks 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); 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 necessary 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, and 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 world commit sth to memoryHe 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 Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part I: Words & Expressions (1),Word-formation: undersung underestimated underdeveloped underdone underfunded undermanned undernourished unerpaid underpopulated underused under- + 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 _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 running to _ them when the trolley _.,