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Extended reading
Unit 2 Let's talk teens
Mama and Her Bank Account
授课老师:陈 婷
You’ll receive many red pockets during Spring Festival, so where will you put/save the money?
Lead-in
piggy bank
bank account
Mama and Her Bank Account
Prediction
What might happen?
Kathryn Forbes’s Mama’s Bank Account
Background
(Adapted from Kathryn Forbes’s Mama’s Bank Account, which has 17 short stories and describes the struggles and dreams of a family in San Francisco in the early 1900s)
Basic elements of a short story
How many basic elemnets are there in a short story? what are they
Setting
when and where
the time and place in which it happens.
Characters
who
a person, or sometimes even an animal
Plot
what and how
a series of events and character actions that relate to the central conflict(冲突).
Theme
why
the central idea or belief in a short story.
Review: Basic elements of short story
背景
人物
情节
主题
Fast Reading
How many paragraphs in this story?
According to the time line, we can divided this story into 3 parts:
Part 1para (____) Scene 1:In Katrin's childhood...
Part 2para (____) Scene 2:When Nels graduated from ....
Part 3para(_____) Scene 3:Twenty years later....
22 paragraphs
1-5
6-15
16-22
Careful reading
Watch a video about para 1-5,and try to find these answers
1.What did mama do every Saturday night?
2.What were the money used for?
3.Did they draw money out of Mama’s bank account?
In Katrin's childhood
draw sth out of
取钱
What were the money used for?
LOREM IPSUM
01
rent
02
groceries
03
notebook
04
...
“ Bank account”
How did the children feel about the Bank Account?
proud,warm,secure
What did mama do every Saturday night?
She counted out the money papa had brought home.
Scene 1:In Katrin's childhood
Did they draw money out of Mama’s bank account?
No, they didn’t.
Look at para 6,what happened in the family?
Nels wanted to go on to high school, but the family didn’t have enough money.
What was Mama’s attitude? How did they solve the problem?(para7-13)
Scene 2: