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In My DayRussell Baker
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R einforcement
T ext Analysis
In My Day
B ackground
W arming up
Unit 8
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Questions/Activities
Check-on Preview
Objectives
In My Day Unit 8
Warming up
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• 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!Never trust anyone over thirty!
Warming up Questions/Activities
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2. Generation Gap
the 50s the 60s the 70s & 80s the 90s
Rock and roll,
Beatniks PunkCounterculture Hip-hop
Warming up Questions/Activities
• Every generation has its own youth culture, which contributes to the generation gap. Match the following items.
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1. Definition: – fierce (para. 10)– advise (para. 18)– lecture (para. 46) – inadequate (para. 46)
2. 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 PreviewWarming up
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3. Structure: – Part I: (paras. 1-___) Description of ____________________________– Part II: (paras. ___-15) Russell’s recollection of his mother’s personality– Part III: (paras. 16-____) The doctor’s _______and Russell’s ________ of mother’s illness– Part IV: (paras. ____-45) ________________________________________– Part V: (paras. 46-end) Russell’s consideration of ___________________
Check-on PreviewWarming up
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1. 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
2. Language
– to appreciate the use of humor
– to draw inferences
– to read between the lines for gist
ObjectivesWarming up
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Background
Book
Author
In My Day Unit 8
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• 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 Baker’s 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
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• The book’s greatest achievement is Baker’s portrayal of his mother, a driven woman haunted by poverty and dreams of her son’s 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 Twain’s.”
Background Book
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DetailedAnalysis
Structure
Theme
In My Day Unit 8
Text Analysis
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unable to understand his own children…
disconnectionbetween parents & children…
generation gap; causes and solutions
unable tounderstandhis mother…
mother’s problems…
Text Analysis Theme
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Text Analysis Theme
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Text Analysis Structure
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DETAILED ANALYSISPart I (paras. 1-9)
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
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Part I: Discussion
1. Russell says, “At the age of eighty my mother had her last bad fall…” What inferences can you draw from this sentence?
2. What was his mother’s state of mind after her last bad fall?
3. Russell says, “…when I did phone back she was all right, although she wasn’t all right, of course…” He uses the phrase “all right” twice. Do they mean the same?
4. Russell’s mother stayed in a nursing home. What is a nursing home?
5. Do you think it is a good idea for children to send their aged parents to this kind of institutions?
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
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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
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“I’m 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, it’s brisk out.
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
Part I: Words & Expressions (2)
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DETAILED ANALYSISPart II (paras. 10-15)
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
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1. What kind of woman was Russell’s mother when she wasyoung? Give a profile of her.
appearance
character
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
Part II: Discussion
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2. In what way did Russell’s mother’s ways reflect the values of the time she lived in?
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
“I tell people exactly what’s on my mind,” she had been fond of boasting… (para. 11)
“If they don’t like it, that’s too bad,” was her customary reply, “because that’s the way I am.” (para. 13)
→Was she apologetic?
Part II: Discussion
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3. Point out the humorous touches in this part of the text.
4. Point out the use of a pun in the following sentence:
One Thanksgiving…she 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
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Part II: Words & Expressions
She had always been a small woman—short, light-boned, delicately structured…(para. 10)delicate• delicate skin, delicate health• delicate child• delicate situation, delicate operation• delicate perfume
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
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Part II: Words & Expressions
“It’s not always good policy to tell people exactly what’s on your mind,” I used to caution her. (para. 12)
policy• Under the circumstances, silence has always been his policy.
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
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DETAILED ANALYSISPart III (paras. 16-38)
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
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Part III: Discussion
1. As Russell sat by his mother’s bed, seeing her present state, his impulse was to argue her back to reality, why?
2. What was the doctor’s diagnosis of his mother’s illness? Did Russell agree with him? What did he come to see about his mother’s problem?
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
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Part III: Words & Expressions
“Russell’s 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 we’re late.
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
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DETAILED ANALYSISPart IV (paras. 39-45)
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
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Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
1. How did the author react to his mother’s senility from a son’s point of view?
Part IV: Discussion
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2. Russell recalled a visit to his mother three years earlier. What does this visit show about Russell and his mother? Why couldn’t he understand his mother’s unhappiness? (paras. 39-40)
3. 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?
4. Which period was his mother’s 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
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Three years earlier I…had 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 trip’s been cancelled, I’ll 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
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DETAILED ANALYSISPart V (paras. 46-end)
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
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Part V: Discussion
1. Why can age stir one’s curiosity about parents’ past?
2. Why was Russell’s childhood hard?
The Great Depression
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
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migrant family
living in the tent
Text Analysis Detailed AnalysisThe Great
Depression
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mother of seven
children
Text Analysis Detailed AnalysisThe Great
Depression
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unemployed people
looking for jobs
Text Analysis Detailed AnalysisThe Great
Depression
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3. What does the author mean by “a dispute about time”? (para. 47)
parents’ pastparents’ past parents’ futureparents’ future
children’s pastchildren’s past children’s futurechildren’s future
Text Analysis Detailed Analysis
Part V: Discussion
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4. What is the author’s view of generation gap?
5. What is the author’s 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
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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
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In My Day
Unit 8
Reinforcement
Activity
Summary
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Writing Techniques
1. 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
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3. Figures of speech:– humorous touch– pun– simile– metaphor– parallelism
Find examples in the text.
Reinforcement Summary
Writing Techniques
2. Typical writing technique: – flashbacks
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• 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
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Russell’s mother Russell Russell’s children
Time(formative years )
What was America like then?
What were the values and beliefs of the time?
Reinforcement Activity