How Reading Changed My Life
Anna Quindlen
How Reading Changed My Life Unit 2
W arming up B ackground T ext Analysis R einforcement
How Reading Changed My Life Unit 2
Background
Author
Her Life
Anna Quindlen the Journalist • The New York Times columnist until
1994 • Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992 • Newsweek columnist 1999-2009
(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
Warming up Objectives
1. Understand in which ways reading has changed the author’s life.
2. Discuss the meaning of reading. 3. Identify the problems facing reading and work on possible
Philadelphia,Pennsylvania in 1953.
In addition,she is the third woman that write editorials for New York Times.And she has won The Pulitzer prize. The present text is an abridged version of the original.
• Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of these, each winner receives a certificate and a US$10,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal, which always goes to a newspaper, although an individual may be named in the citation.
Warming up Check-on Preview
Please define the following words in their respective context. 1. …a small but satisfying spread of center-hall colonials…
Questions/Activities Check-on Preview
Oபைடு நூலகம்jectives
Warming up
Warming up Questions/Activities
1. Has your life ever been significantly changed by any particular book?
reading… (para.12)
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What do you know about the following novels?
Middlemarch A Little Princess Anna Karenina Gone with the Wind Rebecca
Novals: Object Lessons（主题课程） One True Thing（亲情 无价）(has once been adopted into a film) Black and Blue（黑 与蓝）
Others: How Reading Changed My Life（阅读如何改变了我 的生活），The Tree That Came to Stay（大树留下来）, Happy Ever After（永远幸福快乐）
Anna Quindlen the Novelist
• Full-time novelist since 1995 • Author of five best-selling novels, three Anna Marie Quindlen
of which made into movies
• The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by Hungarian-American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. According to the administrators of the Pulitzer Prize the correct pronunciation of the name should sound like the verb pull, as in "Pull it, sir"
solutions.
How Reading Changed My Life Unit 2
Author
Background
Anna Quindlen
Brief introduction about the author and the text
Anna Quindlen is a US journalist.And she has also written many novels,short stories and poems.And she is born in
2. What does reading mean to you?
Warming up Questions/Activities
3. How has the Internet changed people’s way of reading? 4. How do you account for such changes?
Anna Quindlen
Details about the author Joind in New York Times and started her career in News industry when she was 18 years old. 1977-1985,worked in New York Times 1985,left New York Times to bore her two babies. 1988, she bore a daughter. 1989,back to work in New York Times to write editorials for the famous column Public and Private
When he is reported killed the evil head mistress at her boarding school turns Sara into a servant. She suffers with dignity until her shell-shocked father returns. Written by Ed Stephan The story sets in the England ruled by Queen Victoria. Sara (Shirley Temple) is a little girl who doesn't have anything in the world but her father, Captain Reginald Crew (Ian Hunter). War times run, and Captain Crew's sent to fight with the British army to Africa, to fight against the boers. Sara's worried about her father and she's afraid of his security. The girl is registered in an exclusive seminary for girls, only for a period of time, until Captain Crew returns from Africa. Amanda Minchin (Mary Nash) is the strict woman that runs the seminary, but Sara makes friendship with a kind young teacher, Rose (Anita Louise) and with a horse instructor, Geoffrey (Richard Greene). So, Sara's life at Minchin Seminary is very happy, but everything there has a monetary cost, even the birthday party and the presents that Miss Minchin sets up for the girl. When Sara knows the terrible notice about Captain Crew's death, the girl feels devastated and all the privileges will end up, because there's no money to pay for that. Miss Minchin tells to Sara that she can stay, but in a dark and creepy attic and she'll have to work as a servant of all her friends. But the friendship with a nice Indian servant from the next house (César Romero) and with the other servant girl, Becky at the seminary, will make much pleasant the things for Sara, who keeps the hope that her father is still alive. Written by Alejandro Frias