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Pre-reading
What is the genre of this passage?
Argumentation
Exposition
Narration
Genre
Understanding a short story:
While-reading
A short story usually has four basic elements.
Setting
Plot
Characters
Theme
a short story
Setting
Characters
Plot
Theme
who (a person or an animal)
Pre-reading
where, when
The four basic elements
Pre-Reading
Background information:
This story was written by Katherine McClain Anderson, who was born in San Francisco in 1909.
In the beginning ,she works in the radio station,and the wrote articles in her free time. But after the story——Mom and Her Bank Account, She become more famous and write a series of stories, which depend on her own experience .
contents
Mama and Her Bank Account
2. Mama and the Idle Roomer
3. Mama and the Hospital
4. Mama's Uncle Chris
5. Mama and the Big City MAMA’S
6.Mama and Her Little Ladies
7. Mama and the Higher Culture
8. Mama and the Occasion
9. Mama and the Doctor's Wife
10.Mama and the Graduation Present
11.Mama and Big Business
12. Mama's Aunt Elna
13.Mama and Uncle Elizabeth
14. Mama and Christine
15. Mama and Papa
16.Mama and Nels
17.Mama and the Grandchild
While Reading
Look at the picture and the title, and try to predict what the short story is about.
Give you 7 minutes to read the whole passage to summarize the structure.
Part 1 (1-5)
Part 2 (6-13)
Part 3 (14-15)
Part4 (16-22)
Part 1 (1-5):
—Structure analysis
While reading
Read the first part ,and choose the main idea.
B. Mama used the money wisely, which ensured we didn’t have to go to the Bank.
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A. Everyone in the family would do something to help Nels go on to high school, so we didn’t have to draw money out of Mama’s Bank Account.
C. Whatever happened, we still had the Bank Account to depend upon.
D. There wasn’t a real bank account and Mama just wanted us to feel secure.
Part 2 (6-13):
—Structure analysis
While reading
Read the second part ,and choose the main idea.
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A. Everyone in the family would do some