1、In My Day,Lesson 13,Russell Baker,Group members: 黄山英 刘鸿燕 雷伟霞 廖雅桂 陈晓珍,Lesson 13,3.Discussion,4.Structure,5.Details,2.Theme,1.About the author,About the author: Russell Baker,Born in Virginia in 1925A columnist for the New York Times Won a Pulitzer Prize(in 1979)(The present text is from his 1982 auto
2、biography Growing Up, which became a bestseller and received critical acclaim.),Theme,The problem of old peopleGeneration gap,Discussion,1. Do you know something about the old peoples life?2. Is the generation gap a serious problem today?3. What should we do about the generation gap?4.Have your pare
3、nts ever shared their experience in the past?,Structure,Part one (paras 137)Part two (paras 3845)Part three (paras 4655),Part one,traveling among the dead decades with a speed and ease beyond the gift of physical science. (para 1)There had always been a fierceness in her. It showed in that angry cha
4、llenging thrust of the chin when she issued an opinion, and a great one she had always been for issuing opinions.(para 10),And so she was, a formidable woman, determined to speak her mind, determined to have her way, determined to bend those who opposed her.(para 14)Life was combat, and victory was
5、not to the lazy, the mind, the drugstore cowboy, the mush-mouth afraid to tell people exactly what was on his mind.(para 15),Part two,For ten years or more the ferocity with which she had once attacked life had been turning to a rage against the weakness, the boredom, and the absence of love that to
6、o much age had brought her.(para 38),The common problems of old people,Nowshe seemed to have broken chains that imprisoned her in a life she had come to hate and to return to a time inhabited by people who loved her, a time in which she was needed. (para 38)The orbits of her mind rarely touched pres
7、ent interrogators for more than moment.(para 45),Part three,Instinctively, I wanted to break free, and cease being a creature defined by her time.(para 54)These hopeless end-of-the-line visits with my mother made me wish I had not thrown off my own past so carelessly.(para 55),We all come from the past, and children ought to know what it was that went into their making, to know that life is a braided cord of humanity stretching up from long gone, and that it cannot be defined by the span of a single journey from diaper to shroud.(para 55),Thank you!,
