Unit 2 How Reading Changed My Life

Part 2 Background Information
• Quindlen is known as a critic of what she perceives to be the fast-paced and increasingly materialistic nature of modern American life. Much of her personal writing centers on her mother who died at the age of 40 from ovarian cancer 卵巢癌, when Quindlen was 19 years old.
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Jane Eyre A Tale of Two Cities Moby-Dick 白鲸 Pride and Prejudice Kill a Mockingbird 杀死一只反舌鸟（知更鸟） Are you familiar with them? What do you know about the following novels? Could you share with us anything you know any of these books?
• 2. What do you like to read? • What kind of book do you like to read? What is your favorite book? Has your life ever been significantly changed by any particular book?
• • • • • Author (her life) Anna Quindlen the Journalist The New York Times columnist until 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992 Newsweek columnist 1999-2009
Part 2 Background Information
• She published her first novel Object Lessons in 1991. • And in 1992, Quindlen won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary because of the New York Times column, Public and Private. • Quindlen left the New York Times in 1995 to pursue writing fiction full-time, but eventually returned to journalism in 1999 with a bi-weekly column for Newsweek. She wrote the prestigious "Last Word" column in Newsweek magazine until she announced her retirement in the May 18, 2009.
Part 2 Background Information
• Over the last 30 years, Anna Quindlen's work has appeared in some of America's most influential newspapers, many of its best-known magazines, and on both fiction and nonfiction bestseller lists. • Quindlen began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for the New York Post. Then she joined the New York Times in 1977 as a general assignment reporter. Between 1977 and 1994 she held several posts at the New York Times. Quindlen wrote the About New York column from 1981 to 1983. She created the column Life in the 30’s running from 1986 to 1988, and in 1990, Quindlen began writing a bi-weekly Public and Private column on the op-ed
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Unit 2 How Reading Changed My Life
Part 1 Warm-up
• Warm-up questions: • 1. Do you like reading? What does reading mean to you?
Part 2 Background Information
• Anna Quindlen is the author of many books. She has written four best-selling novels, Object Lessons (1991), One True Thing (1994), Black and Blue (1998), Blessings (2002), and three of them have been made into movies. • One True Thing was made into a feature film in 1998 for which Meryl Streep received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Black and Blue and Blessings were made into television movies in 1999 and 2003 respectively.
Part 2 Background Information
• Novels:
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• Non-fiction books :
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• Two Children's books :
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Part 1 Warm-up
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• 达西庄园 Chatsworth
Part 2 Background Information
• 达西庄园 Chatsworth
• Anna Quindlen the Novelist • Full-time novelist since 1995 • Author of four bestto movies
• Author (her works) • A critic of the fast-paced and increasingly materialistic nature of modern American life
Part 1 Warm-up
• Could you read the text quickly and find out all the English novels mentioned in this text? • • • • • • • Middlemarch 米德尔马契 A Little Princess Anna Karenina Gone with the Wind Rebecca 蝴蝶梦
Part 3 Text Analysis
• Skimming the whole text to get the main ideas (with the help of the following questions) • Questions for thinking: • 1. What is your overall impression of this text? What is the text mainly about? • 2. What do you think the author is trying to say? What are the main points she is trying to make? • 3. What is the author's purpose? Why has the text been written?
Part 2 Background Information
• Quindlen is also the author of a collection of essays, Living Out Loud (1988), and Thinking Out Loud (1993). Her latest book, Loud and Clear was published in April 2004 and comprised columns she wrote for both New York Times and Newsweek. • She also wrote two children’s books, The Tree That Came to Stay (1992) and Happily Ever After (1997). • How Reading Changed My Life was released in September 1998.
Part 2 Background Information
• Some quotes/quotations: • 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.
Part 1 Warm-up
• 3. Could you talk about one or two books that you have read before and would like to recommend to us?
• 4. How has the Internet changed people’s way of reading? • 5. How do you account for such changes?
Part 2 Background Information
• Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1953) is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to an Irish father and an Italian mother, Quindlen graduated in 1970 from South Brunswick High School in South Brunswick, New Jersey and then attended Barnard College from which she graduated in 1974. She is married to prominent New Jersey attorney Gerald Krovatin whom she met while in college. She lives with her family in New York City.