Text Analysis Theme
Questions for thinking: 1. What does reading mean to the author? 2. What kind of attitudes toward reading bother the author? 3. What kind of attitude does the author advocate?
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
Part I: Discussion
1. Where did the author spend her childhood? 2. Why did the author always feel that she ought to be
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
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
Questions/Activities Check-on Preview
Objectives
Warming up
Warming up Questions/Activities
1. Has your life ever been significantly changed by any particular book?
reading… (para.12)
Warming up Check-on Preview
What do you know about the following novels?
Middlemarch A Little Princess Anna Karenina Gone with the Wind Rebecca
Author
Her Works
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.
2. Discuss the meaning of reading. 3. Identify the problems facing reading and work on possible
solutions.
How Reading Changed My Life Unit 2
Author
Background
Jane Eyre A Tale of Two Cities Moby-Dick Pride and Prejudice Kill a Mockingbird
Warming up Objectives
1. Understand in which ways reading has changed the author’s life.
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?
Text Analysis Structure
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Paras. 1-9
Paras. 10-15
Reading has been an important part of my life.
A crisis faced by reading.
3
Paras. 16-18
There is still hope for reading.
Anna Quindlen the Novelist
• Full-time novelist since 1995
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Anna Marie Quindlen
Author of five best-selling novels, three
of which made into movies
Background
(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 Check-on Preview
Please define the following words in their respective context. 1. …a small but satisfying spread of center-hall colonials…
• You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
How Reading Changeture
Detailed Analysis
Text Analysis