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Wisdom of Bear Wood

Wisdom of Bear WoodMichael Welzenbach

Wisdom of Bear Wood

Wisdom of Bear Wood

Unit 6

W arming up

B ackgroundT ext Analysis R einforcement

Wisdom of Bear Wood

Wisdom of Bear Wood

Unit 6

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Warming up

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Warming up

Get ready to share your own comments with the class. You can talk about : Things that most impress you in and about the text Things in and about the text that you find hard to understand Writing or stylistic feature of the text

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Warming up

Character sketchBoy Old lady

Age:

Nationality:Education: Life experience: Characteristics: Interests:

Needs:

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Content

How do you understand the title of the story? What is the wisdom of Bear Wood? How would you account for the strong attachment between the boy and the woman? What did they get from the friendship respectively?

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Wisdom of Bear WoodTheme

Unit 6

Text AnalysisStructure

Detailed Analysis

Wisdom of Bear Wood

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Theme

Friendship Nature

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Structure

Part 1: (1-4) my life before the encounter Part 2: (5-35) my friendship with the old lady

Section 1(5-23) friendship started Section 2(24-27) friendship developed

Section 3(28-35) friendship endedPart 3: (36-37) the legacy of the friendship

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Text Analysis

Detailed AnalysisPart I: Main Idea

Where did the boy Michael come from? How did he get to England? Did he make many friends there? Why did he like to keep to himself? How would you describe the Bear Wood? What does it mean to the boy?

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Part I: Sentence ParaphraseMy father’s government job demanded that he go overseas every few years, so I was used to wrenching myself away from friends. (para.1) demanded that he go: subjunctive mood every few years: Something will happen regularly after a few years. to wrench yourself away from: to twist and pull yourself away from

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Part I: Sentence ParaphraseLoving nature, however, I was most delighted by the endless patchwork of farms and woodland that surrounded our house. (para.2) Loving nature, however : as (because) I loved nature … a patchwork of farms (fields): farms that look like small pieces of cloth of different colors when seen from far above

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Part I: Sentence ParaphraseIn the deep woods that verged against our back fence, a network of paths led almost everywhere, and pheasants rocketed off into the dense laurels ahead as you walked. (para.2) verge against: to be close to; to be at the edge or border of (This is a rare expression) a network of: a system of lines, wires, roads, etc that cross each other and are connected to each other

… and pheasants rocketed off: … and pheasants tookoff like rockets.

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Part I: Sentence ParaphraseKeeping to myself was my way of not forming attachments that I would only have to abandon the next time we moved. (para.3)Paraphrasi

ng: I did not try to make many friends because in that way I did not have to give up my friendship the next time I had to move.

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Part I: Sentence ParaphraseI started hiking there …, up a long, sloping hill to an almost impenetrable stand of trees called Bear Wood. (para.4) an … impenetrable stand of trees: trees growing so thick

that they are impossible to go through or enter into. stand: a group of trees growing in a given area impenetrable: derived from “penetrate”

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Part I: Sentence ParaphraseMy own breathing rang in my ears, and the slightest stirring of any woodland creature echoed through this private paradise. (para.4)Paraphrasing: I could even hear my own breathing, and even the lightest movement of any bird or animal in the wood could be heard throughout this paradise.