"Reading and Writing" series course introduction and wonderful excerpts

1. Introduction to Reading and Writing about Literature

2. The Role of Good Reading

3. The Writing Process

4. Common Writing Assignments

5. Writing about Stories

6. Writing about Poems

7. Writing about Plays

8. Writing a Literary Research Paper

9. Literary Criticism and Literary Theory

The course structure is generally: each class consists of more than 30-40 pages of PPT, the teacher carefully prepares the lesson, the lecture rhythm is efficient, and the focus is on inspiration and guidance.

It is an analysis of famous quotes: the use of vocabulary, advanced grammar and sentence structure, such as how to start a sentence with a verb, adjective, preposition and conjunction, the analysis of the emphasis and effect of inversion, and the learning of reading skills, expression skills, By analyzing famous plays, students can master the beautiful words and sentences.

The following are excerpts and analysis of famous quotes:

Short sentences

• The moose is as winter a creature as just about any.( Trudy Dittmar. Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky, 33 )

• The streets were calm with Sunday. ( Aimee Bender, An Invisible Sign of My Own, 69 )

• The world was newborn. ( Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections, 329 )

Grammar as Style: Free modifiers, Branching sentences

• The stream of sound is not continuous, but is produced and interpreted (though seldom consciously) as a series of separated word-groups....It is segmented into minor syntactical units, each of which has superimposed upon it a pattern of stress and intonation. ( Ian Gordon, The Movement of English Prose, 19,21 )

Branching sentences

• During the slow journey from Winton, seated opposite me in the third-class compartment, wearing a shabby gray dress pinned with a large cairngorm brooch, a thin necklet of fur, and a black-winged hat which dropped over her ear, she had gazed out of the window, her head to one side, her lips moving as she maintained a silent yet emotional conversation with herself, from time to time touching the corner of her eye with her handkerchief as though removing a fly. ( AJ Cronin, The Green Years, 3 )

Conjunctions and coordination

• There was a crowd of kids watching the car, and the square was hot, and the trees were green, and the flags hung on their staffs, and it was good to get out of the sun and under the shade of the arcade that runs all the way around the square. ( Ernest Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises, 94 )

• He made the Emperor laugh and the horse couldn't better him, so he stayed. And I stayed. And we became friends. ( Jeanette Winterson, The Passion, 4 )

Verb phrases

• After Inniscarra the hills gather closely, and the river laughs out loud. It dances, it prances, it rushes, it slides, calm for a moment then onward again, stream racing stream, leaping and tumbling, wild Bacchanalian, wine from the mountains, froth from the ecstasy blown through the reeds. Mile after mile, past larch woods and beech woods and fern-covered hillsides, castles, and 'standing stones' cresting high ground. In comes the torrent from wild Knockabrocka, bringing turf waters from Aghabullogue; down comes the water from Carriganish. ( Robert Gibbings , Lovely is the Lee, 190 )

Noun phrases

• Leaves long dead and brittle as old butterfly wings, an aqua candy wrapper, flecks and dust and seed-sized snips of gutter chaff all hurried in a rustling revolution under our eyes...( John Updlike. The Centaur, 130)

• Pursuit planes were traded for additional cargo ships or retained for emergency invoice duty and small-parcel services; trucks and tanks were procured from the ground forces and used for short-distance road hauling. ( Joseph Heller, Catch-22,259 )

• She bought the green glove silk slip and the tea-colored lace. ( Katherine Anne Porter, Flowering Judas and Other Stories. 200)

Prepositions

• The procession of men and women from the street into the station and down the escalators towards the trains becomes a movement from a world above to an underworld of death. ( Ralph Freedman. The Lyrical Novel, 258 )

• All the way home in the taxi and in the life up to her flat on the seventh floor. Mrs. Liebig kept on talking. ( Angus Wilson, A bit off the Map and Other Stories, 107)

Through writing course training, students' thinking and writing skills are steadily improving, and they are good at oral and written expression. Most students think that this training is very helpful for them to prepare for college entrance essays, as well as to conceive creative writing and find interesting characters and plots. Some students won the first place in English and sociology in the school; some won writing competitions; some students wrote high-level papers and entered the Iowa Writing Summer Camp. Students of all levels can benefit greatly, their English scores in school have improved, and most importantly, students have learned to think deeply. As some graduates said when they visited their teachers before leaving, they not only learned writing skills, but also changed and established their outlook on life.