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,In My Day,Russell Baker,R,einforcement,T,ext Analysis,In My Day,B,ackground,W,arming up,Unit 8,Questions/Activities,Check-on Preview,Objectives,In My Day,Unit 8,Warming up,What is the meaning of the title? Who tend to use the expression very often? Why do they often say this?,1. The Title,Never trust anyone over thirty!,Warming up,Questions/Activities,2. Generation Gap,the 50s,the 60s,the 70s & 80s,the 90s,Rock,and roll, Beatniks,Punk,Counterculture,Hip-hop,Warming up,Questions/Activities,Every generation has its own youth culture, which,contributes to the generation gap. Match the following items.,Definition:,fierce (para. 10),advise (para. 18),lecture (para. 46),inadequate (para. 46),Paraphrasing:,Life was combat, and victory was not to the lazy, the timid, the drugstore cowboy, the mush-mouth afraid to tell people exactly what was on his mind. (para.15),Check-on Preview,Warming up,Structure:,Part I: (paras. 1-_),Description of _,Part II: (paras. _-15),Russells recollection of his mothers personality,Part III: (paras. 16-_),The doctors _and Russells _ of mothers,illness,Part IV: (paras. _-45),_,Part V: (paras. 46-end),Russells consideration of _,Check-on Preview,Warming up,Content,to understand the problem of aging,to understand the problem of generation and ways to solve it,to relate the problem to personal and social experience,Language,to appreciate the use of humor,to draw inferences,to read between the lines for gist,Objectives,Warming up,Background,Book,Author,In My Day,Unit 8,A columnist for,The New York Times, where he applies his unique brand of humor to social commentary.,The present text is taken from Russell Bakers autobiography,Growing Up, which won him the second Pulitzer Prize in 1983.,With a moving mix of humor and sadness, Baker insightfully recounts the struggles the family endured in depression-era after his father passed away (when Baker was only 5).,Background,Author,Russell Baker,The books greatest achievement is Bakers portrayal of his mother, a driven woman haunted by poverty and dreams of her sons success. “I would make something of myself,” he wrote, “and if I lacked the grit to do it, well then she would make me make something of myself.”,The Los Angeles Times Book Review,called,Growing Up, “a wondrous book, funny, sad, and strong.as funny and touching as Mark Twains.”,Background,Book,Detailed,Analysis,Structure,Theme,In My Day,Unit 8,Text Analysis,unable to understand his own children,disconnection,between parents & children,generation gap; causes and solutions,unable to,understand,his mother,mothers,problems,Text Analysis,Theme,What is the text about?,generation gap,aging problem,family,bond,What issues are reflected?,Text Analysis,Theme,Text Analysis,Structure,Part I,(paras. 1-9),Description of how his mothers mind began to wander after she had her last bad fall and was confined to bed,Part II,(paras. 10-15),Russells recollection of his mothers personality,Part III,(paras. 16-38),The doctors diagnosis and Russells understanding of his mothers illness,Part IV,(paras. 39-45),Russells confession of knowing too little about his mother and her feelings,Part V,(paras. 46-end),Russells consideration of the disconnection between children and parents,D,ETAILED,ANALYSIS,Part I (paras. 1-9),Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part,I: Discussion,Russell says, “At the age of eighty my mother had her last bad fall” What inferences can you draw from this sentence?,What was his mothers state of mind after her last bad fall?,Russell says, “when I did phone back she was all right, although she wasnt all right, of course” He uses the phrase “all right” twice. Do they mean the same?,Russells mother stayed in a nursing home. What is a nursing home?,Do you think it is a good idea for children to send their aged parents to this kind of institutions?,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part I: Words & Expressions (1),On others she,presided over,family dinners cooked on Sunday afternoons for children who were now gray,with,age. (para. 1),preside over/at:,be the chairman (at),;,sit at the head of the table (at a formal dinner),with:,because of,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,“Im being buried today,” she declared,briskly, as though,announcing an important social event. (para. 8),Explain the use of the present continuous tense,Explain the meaning of “social event”,More examples with “social”,brisk,They set off at a brisk pace.,Business is always brisk during the holiday season.,Put on your sweater, its brisk out.,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part,I,: Words & Expressions (2),D,ETAILED,ANALYSIS,Part II (paras. 10-15),Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,What kind of woman was Russells mother when she wasyoung? Give a profile of her.,appearance,character,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part II: Discussion,In what way did Russells mothers ways reflect the values of the time she lived in?,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,“I tell people exactly whats on my mind,” she had been fond of boasting (para. 11),“If they dont like it, thats too bad,” was her customary reply, “because thats the way I am.” (para. 13),Was she apologetic?,Part II: Discussion,Point out the humorous touches in this part of the text.,Point out the use of a pun in the following sentence:,One Thanksgivingshe tripped on the stairs and tumbled down,ending at the bottom in the debris of giblets, hot gravy, and,battered turkey. (para. 15),Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part,II,: Discussion,Part II: Words & Expressions,She had always been a small womanshort, light-boned,delicately,structured(para. 10),delicate,delicate skin, delicate health,delicate child,delicate situation, delicate operation,delicate perfume,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part II: Words & Expressions,“Its not always good,policy,to tell people exactly whats on your,mind,” I used to caution her. (para. 12),policy,Under the circumstances, silence has always been his policy.,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,D,ETAILED,ANALYSIS,Part III (paras. 16-38),Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part III: Discussion,As Russell sat by his mothers bed, seeing her present state, his impulse was to argue her back to reality, why?,What was the doctors diagnosis of his mothers illness? Did Russell agree with him? What did he come to see about his mothers problem?,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part III: Words & Expressions,“Russells,way out west,” she advised me. (para. 18),way out west:,far out west, a great distance out west,way,1. collocations,way above/over/under,way ahead/beyond/behind/back/off,2,.,(,infml,),very,We were way tired after the hike.,Dad will be way mad if were late.,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,D,ETAILED,ANALYSIS,Part IV (paras. 39-45),Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,at the beginning,I wouldnt accept the,inevitable.,My impulse was to argue her back to reality.,later,I stopped t,rying to argue her back to what I considered the real world.,I tried to,travel along with her on those fantastic journeys into the past.,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,How did the author react to his mothers senility from a sons point of view?,Part IV: Discussion,Russell recalled a visit to his mother three years earlier. What does this visit show about Russell and his mother? Why couldnt he understand his mothers unhappiness? (paras. 39-40),After he realized that his mother could recapture happiness in her past memory, Russell stopped trying to argue her back to reality, what did he do instead? What does that mean?,Which period was his mothers happiest time in her life? Was Russell able to travel along with his mother to the dead decades? Why (not)?,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part,IV,: Discussion,Three years earlier Ihad written her with some banal advice to look for,the silver lining, to,count her blessings,instead of burdening others with her miseries. (para. 33),silver lining,As the trips been cancelled, Ill be able to go to the match this Saturday. Every cloud has a silver lining.,The fall of inflation is the silver lining of the prolonged recession.,count your blessings:,to think about the good things in your life, often to stop yourself becoming too unhappy about the bad things,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part IV: Words & Expressions,D,ETAILED,ANALYSIS,Part V (paras. 46-end),Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part V: Discussion,Why can age stir ones curiosity about parents past?,Why was Russells childhood hard?,The Great Depression,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,migrant family living in the tent,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,The Great Depression,mother of seven children,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,The Great Depression,unemployed people looking for jobs,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,The Great Depression,What does the author mean by “a dispute about time”? (para. 47),parents childhood,parents adulthood,parents old age,childrens childhood,childrens adulthood,parents past,parents future,childrens past,childrens future,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part V: Discussion,What is the authors view of generation gap?,What is the authors view on how to handle the disconnection between parents and children?,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part V: Discussion,On the part of the parents,On the part of the children,Part V: Words & Expressions,At dinner one evening a son had offended me with an,inadequate,report card (para. 46),inadequate:,not enough or not good enough for a particular,purpose,The girl realized that her answers were inadequate.,He makes me feel totally inadequate.,The supply is inadequate to meet the demand.,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,In My Day,Unit 8,Reinforcement,Activity,Summary,Writing Techniques,Genre:,a combination of narration and discussion, with two strands running through it,:,one is the account of the changes that occurred to his mother after her last bad fall,the other is his reflection of parent-child disconnection,Reinforcement,Summary,Figures of speech:,humorous touch,pun,simile,metaphor,parallelism,Find examples in the text.,Reinforcement,Summary,Writing Techniques,Typical writing technique:,flashbacks,One important factor contributing to the generation gap is that different generations live in different historical times and may hold different social values, which may lead to the difficulty in understanding each other.,Please put Russell, his mother and his son back in their respective times by seeking clues in the text and notes, and by resorting to your knowledge of American history.,Reinforcement,Activity,Russells mother,Russell,Russells children,Time,(formative years ),What was America like then?,What were the values and beliefs of the time?,Reinforcement,Activity,
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