1. The Rite of Spring Arthur Miller
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2. The Rite of Spring W arming up B ackground T ext Analysis
Unit 3
W arming up
B ackground
T ext Analysis
R einforcement

3. Questions / Activities
The Rite of Spring
Unit 3
Questions / Activities
Check-on Preview
Warming up
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Objectives

4. Questions / Activities
Warming up
Questions / Activities
Will you be a good gardener? A quick quiz!
1. Where is the best location to plant tall or climbing plants?
A. North side of the garden B.  East side of the garden
   C. South side of the garden   D.  West side of the garden
2. Tomato plants that are “determinate” are more bushy plants, and tomato
plants that are 'indeterminate' are more viny plants
    True  False
3. Potatoes are in what family?
    A. Carrot Family (Umbelliferae)    B.  Tomato Family (Solanaceae)
    C. Pea Family (Leguminosae)   D.  Morning Glory Family (Convolvulaceae)
4. What is the best level of soil ph for MOST plants?
A.   B C.   D.  
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5. Questions / Activities
Warming up
Questions / Activities
Will you be a good gardener? A quick quiz!
5. Pine needle mulch lowers the ph level of soil while peat moss
raises the ph level.
True False
6. When a plant has beautiful lush foliage, but almost no fruit, the
plant has an overdose of: (Ans: One 8-letter word)
7. Tomato leaves that are purple and thin is a pretty good sign that
they are lacking Potassium.
8. Potato plants want lots of organic matter in the soil for the
potatoes to grow better.
  True False
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6. Questions / Activities
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Questions / Activities
Now Check Your Answer!
1. North side of the garden. 
When the tall plants are planted on the north side, they don't block the sun
from other smaller plants and also keep down the north winds.
2. True.  If you don't want to stake, you will want determinate. If not, go with
indeterminate. 
3. Tomato Family (Solanaceae).  Eggplant, Tomato, Tomatillo, Potato, and Pepper are all in the tomato family.
  Most plants require ph levels of 6-7, but a few can tolerate 5.5 like corn,
carrots, and potatoes. Others can grow well in soil ph of 7.5 like cabbage and
cauliflower.
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Now Check Your Answer!
5. False.  Pine needle mulch and peat moss are good for alkaline soils because they
lower the ph level. 
6. Nitrogen.  Nitrogen will help produce lush foliage, but too much will make the plant
concentrate on the leaves instead of the fruit. 
7. False.  They lack phosphorus when the plants look like that.
8. False.  Too much organic matter will cause scabbing on the potatoes.
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8. Warming up
Check-on Preview
See the Preview Quiz on P67-70.

9. Objectives Know something about the author
Warming up
Objectives
Know something about the author
Understand the genre of essay
Learn how to interpret and appreciate literary essay

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Genre

11. His Life Arthur Miller 1915-2005 Background
A Harlem-born Polish-Jewish
boy
Majored in journalism at
University of Michigan
Wrote first play in 1936
Received BA in English in
1938

12. His Career Background First successful play: All My Sons, 1946
Huge success: Death of a Salesman, 1949
The Crucible, 1953
About Salem Witchhunt in 1692
HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee), anti-
communist McCarthyism
Attended a HUAC hearing in 1956, refusing to give names;
sentenced to a $500 fine or thirty days in prison, blacklisted,
and disallowed a US passport
Conviction overturned in 1958
Return to theatrical success: The Price, 1968
Experimental drama in 1970s, unsuccessful
Kept writing until 2004

13. His Influence Background One of the greatest dramatists of
the twentieth century
Politically engaged, commercially
successful, social plays
Numourous awards and honors:
Three Tony Awards, Pulitzer Prize for
Death of the Salesman in 1949
1965, Elected the first American
president of International Pen
1993, awarded the National Medal of
Arts
 2001, selected for the Jefferson Lecture,
the U.S government's highest honor
for achievement in the humanities

14. Background
His Works
Death of a Salesman 1949; 1984 movie starring Dustin Hoffman)
The Crucible, 1953, 1996 movie starring Daniel Day-Lewis

15. His Marriage Background Mary Slattery, college sweetheart, 1940
Marilyn Monroe, 1956
Brief affair in 1951
Accompanied Miller to his 1956 trial
Made The Misfits with Miller as the scriptwriter
Divorced in 1961
Inge Morath, 1962
Son Daniel born with Down Syndrome; institutionalized at Miller’s insistence
Son-in-law, English actor Daniel Day-Lewis

16. Genre Essay Background
A short piece of prose often written from the author’s personal point of view
Vague definition, great variety: literary, political, academic, journalistic, argumentative, expository, etc.
Aldous Huxley: a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything
Personal and the autobiographical: these use "fragments of reflective autobiography" to "look at the world through the keyhole of anecdote and description ".
Objective and factual: in these essays, the authors "do not speak directly of themselves, but turn their attention outward to some literary or scientific or political theme".
Abstract-universal: these essays "make the best ... of all the three
worlds in which it is possible for the essay to exist".

17. Genre Literary Essay Background Structure: rather loose, shapeless
Types of essay
Formal & Informal, Impersonal & Familiar
Post-Montaigne, the essay split into two distinct modalities: one remained informal, personal, intimate, relaxed, conversational, and often humorous; the other dogmatic, impersonal, systematic, and expository
Structure: rather loose, shapeless
Samuel Johnson: "an irregular, indigested piece, not a regular and orderly performance."
Voice: usually “I”
Reader’s role:
The reader generally believes what the essayist says is true; he has been called on to join in the making of meaning

18. Genre Literary Essay Background
Famous essayist
Michel de Montaigne, first to use the term in Essais, 1580
Francis Bacon , “Of Studies”
William Hazlitt
Charles Lamb
Ralph Waldo Emerson

19. Theme Text Analysis “The Rite of Spring”
rite: a solemn ceremony or act; a set of fixed words or acts
The Rite of Spring by Stranvinsky: a sacred pagan ritual where the wise elders are seated in a circle and are observing the dance before death of the girl whom they are offering as a sacrifice to the god of Spring in order to gain his benevolence
What does “The Rite of spring” refer to in this text?
How is gardening a rite? Does gardening carry any symbolic meaning?
Is gardening a celebration of spring?

20. The Rite of Spring Text Analysis Detailed Analysis Unit 3 Structure
Theme
Text Analysis
Structure
Detailed
Analysis
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21. Theme
Text Analysis
How do you understand the title “The Rite of Spring”?
What about the timing of writing? Does it carry any significance?
Does the author enjoy gardening? Find textual evidence.
What does the author say about gardening?
What is the author’s attitude towards gardening?

22. Structure Text Analysis Gardening involves conflict and choice-making.
I. Gardening as a celebration of the coming spring (1-2).
II. Why gardening? (3-10)
Gardening involves conflict and choice-making.
Gardening teaches you about nature.
Gardening is neurotic and moral.
Gardening helps character building.
III. Gardening enables people to stay hopeful for the future. (11-12)

23. Detailed Analysis Part I: Main Idea Text Analysis
What do you know about the facts of the author’s gardening?
Why did they keep the garden?
What do you make of the comparison between root crops and hot dogs?
Why can’t he resist the temptation to plant despite the seeming unwillingness? Why “inevitably”?
What do you think is the tone of para. 1?
What do you think of the last few descriptive sentences in para. 2?
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24. Detailed Analysis Part I: Sentence Paraphrase Text Analysis
There is a human instinct at work here, a kind of back-breaking make-believe that has no reality. (para.1)
Back-breaking: physically hard and tiring
Make-believe: believing in things that you want to believe because they are easy or exciting, but are not real
At work: (lit.) to be having an effect, usually an obvious or bad effect
Paraphrasing: Perhaps gardening is human nature. We like to exert ourselves year after year working in the garden, believing this year’s harvest will be better, just like we can always revive hope after repeated failures. .

25. Detailed Analysis Part I: Sentence Paraphrase Text Analysis
As it is, though, I cannot deny that when April comes I find myself going out to lean on the fence and look at that miserable plot of land, resolving with all my rational powers not to plant it again. (para.2)
Analyze the grammatical structure of the sentence.

26. Detailed Analysis Part I: Sentence Paraphrase Text Analysis
And the sun means business…(para.2)
Mean business: (infml) to want very much to achieve something, even if other people disagree with you; be serious about sth. you have to do
Paraphrasing: The sun shines more brightly and it’s getting warmer.

27. Detailed Analysis Part I: Words & Expressions Text Analysis Words
patch/plot; relatively; back-breaking; make-believe; waft; worm
Phrases
a bunch of; tell apart (from); at work; mean business; as it is/ though
Sentence Pattern
Grammar

28. Detailed Analysis Part I: Exercise Text Analysis
1. A bunch of ______/______/_____/_____/… 2. ______/______/_____/_____ … one’s way 3. 尽管意识形态上仍有不同，近年来两国间的合作不断加强。 4. 他这次似乎是认真的，还制定了一个详细的五年计划。 5. 一个难民小心地、慢慢地从铁丝网的下面钻了过去。

29. Detailed Analysis Part I: Keys to Exercise Text Analysis
1. A bunch of people/flowers/vegetables/fruits/keys, etc. 2. work/make/shoulder/inch/bow/beg, etc. one’s way 3. 尽管意识形态上仍有不同，近年来两国间的合作不断加强。 Despite the ideological differences at work, the two countries have strengthened their cooperation in recent years. 4. 他这次似乎是认真的，还制定了一个详细的五年计划。 He seems to mean business this time; he has even made a detailed five-year plan. 5. 一个难民小心地、慢慢地从铁丝网的下面钻了过去。 A refugee carefully wormed his/her way through under the wire fence.

30. Detailed Analysis Part II: Main Idea Text Analysis
What does the author mean by saying that “conflict” sends him back to garden?
What’s the difference between black plastic and hay mulch? Why does such difference matter? What does this say about gardening?
Why does the author use fertilizers sparingly? Why does he say “I’m not sure”?
How do you understand his claim that gardening is “neurotic” and “moral”? Do you agree?
What do you make of the parent-children metaphor in para. 6?
What do you think of the mother-in-law story? Why such a story?
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31. Detailed Analysis Part II: Main Idea Text Analysis
Why does the author say “I garden because I must”?
How do you understand “A garden is an extension of oneself”?
Where did gardening get Adam? What does this indicate?
What is the general tone in this part? Does Arthur Miller love gardening or not?
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32. Detailed Analysis Part II: Sentence Paraphrase Text Analysis
I’m not sure why I do this beyond the saving in fertilizer and my unwillingness to aid the weeds. (para.5)
Beyond: except (in negative sentences)
Eg. He has no idea of the current situation beyond what little he is told.
Paraphrase: I don’t know why I only use very little fertilizer; maybe I don’t want to spend too much on fertilizer, or maybe I don’t want the weeds to thrive on fertilizer. But certainly there are more reasons.

33. Detailed Analysis Part II: Sentence Paraphrase Text Analysis
She is an outspoken, truthful woman, or she was until she learned better. (para.8)
Learn better: learn that it is not wise or moral to do sth.
Cf. know better (than to do sth.): to be wise or moral enough not to do sth.
Paraphrasing: She used to be a woman who spoke her mind and who was always straightforward in her speech, but now she has learned from experiences that it is not wise to do so. .

34. Part II: Sentence Paraphrase
Text Analysis
Detailed Analysis
Part II: Sentence Paraphrase
In some pocket of the mind there might even be the tendency to change this vision into a personal assurance that all this healthy growth, this orderliness and thrusting life must somehow reflect movements in one’s own spirit. (para.9)
Paraphrasing: In some small corner of the mind, I am even inclined to believe that such beautiful view of the garden can be transformed into a spiritual certainty; I feel certain that just like this well-organized and arranged garden and the life and vitality of everything growing in it, my spirit is equally active as well as in order.

35. Detailed Analysis Part II: Sentence Paraphrase Text Analysis
A garden in an extension of oneself – or selves – and so it has to be an arena where striving does not cease, but continues by other means. (para. 10)
Paraphrasing: A garden is like your second self, or a projection of yourself in nature; whatever you do in real life continues in your garden. So a garden must be a state where your effort for achievements never stops, but carries on in different ways. .

36. Detailed Analysis Part II: Words & Expressions Text Analysis Words
weed-free; broadcast; beyond; neurotic; thin (v.; unthinned); pocket; glisten/glitter; shade/color
Phrases
go for; come into play; turn upon; cast aside/away; as it were; learn better; stand on one’s dignity
Sentence Pattern
Grammar .

37. Detailed Analysis Part II: Exercise Text Analysis
All that ________ is not gold.
The grass _________ in the early morning dew.
Shakespeare’s literary legacy is ________ compare.
She dyed her hair a very unusual ________ of red.
任何适用于本地学生的校规也适用于留学生。
在朝鲜发射导弹问题上有多方力量参与。
他们是最好的朋友，却在利益面前像死敌一样互相攻击。

38. Detailed Analysis Part II: Exercise Text Analysis
All that glitters is not gold.
The grass glistened in the early morning dew.
Shakespeare’s literary legacy is beyond compare.
She dyed her hair a very unusual shade of red.
All school rules for local students also go for overseas students.
Many forces came into play on the issue of North Korea’s missile launch.
They were best friends, but turned upon each other like deadly foes for profit.

39. Detailed Analysis Part III: Main Idea Text Analysis
According to the author, why is gardener a proper occupation for the father of mankind? What do you think?
Do you agree that mankind is a creature of self-delusion? Why do you think Arthur Miller say this? What does “self-delusion” actually mean here?
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40. Detailed Analysis Part III: Sentence Paraphrase Text Analysis
Only the gardener is capable of reviving so much hope that this year, regardless of drought, flood, typhoon, or his own stupidity, this year he is going to do it right! (para.11)
Paraphrasing: Only the gardener can become hopeful after repeated failures and believe that this year he is going to have a good harvest, even though there might be disasters like drought, flood, typhoon, and even though he himself is foolish.

41. Detailed Analysis Part III: Sentence Paraphrase Text Analysis
Leave it to God to have picked the proper occupation for the only creature capable of such self-delusion. (para. 11)
Leave it to sb. to do sth.: to allow someone to make a choice or decision about something, or to make someone responsible for something
Paraphrasing: God has done His job properly and chosen the right occupation for mankind, because only man can “deceive” themselves willingly, only man can regain hope after repeated failures, believing in new and better possibilities.

42. Detailed Analysis Part III: Words & Expressions Text Analysis Words
Phrases
be capable of ; revive hope; self-delusion; for honesty’s sake;
Sentence Pattern
Leave it to sb. to do sth.
Grammar

43. Detailed Analysis Part III: Exercise Text Analysis
管理层决定把这个合同交给约翰去谈，因为他们知道他绝不会打没有准备的战。
The management decided to leave it to John to negotiate for the contract, as they knew he would never leave it to chance.

44. The Rite of Spring Reinforcement Discussion Retelling Unit 3
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Retelling

45. Discussion Reinforcement Summarize what Miller says about gardening .
Compare what he says with the metaphors of gardening in “Mandela’s Garden”. What are the differences and similarities?
Have you ever had any experience in gardening? What do you think of gardening?
Do you think what Miller says still holds in the contemporary world?
Now what do you think of Miller’s attitude towards gardening? What do you think of the way he expresses himself?

46. Discussion Irony Reinforcement Definition:
the surface meaning and the underlying meaning of what is said are not the same
Irony consists in stating the contrary of what is meant
Types of irony
Verbal irony is a disparity of expression and intention
Dramatic irony is a disparity of awareness between actor and observer
Situational irony is the disparity of intention and result

47. Discussion Irony Reinforcement
Can you find where the irony is in “The Rite of Spring”?
Title
Time of writing
Verbal irony

48. Reinforcement
Further Reading
“Of Gardens”, by Francis Bacon