Lesson 5-Say Yes Part Two Backgroud Informatio WB T L E ENTER
Lesson 5—Say Yes W B T L E Part Two ENTER
Lesson 5-Say Yes Background Information Content岭 I. Author II. Racism III. Ku Klux Klan IV. Jim Crow Laws WB T L E
Lesson 5—Say Yes W B T L E I. Author II. Racism III. Ku Klux Klan IV. Jim Crow Laws Background Information
Lesson 5-Say Yes I.Author Tobias Wolff(1945-)was born in Alabama in 1945.His parents divorced when he was a boy.Wolff's mother retained custody of him.As a child,Wolff traveled with his mother,Rosemary,to the Pacific Northwest,where she remarried.Growing up in the Pacific Northwest,young Tobias soon was forced to endure life under his strict and cruel stepfather.His efforts to get away from his stepfather led to his self- transformation. To be continued on the next page
Lesson 5—Say Yes W B T L E Tobias Wolff (1945—) was born in Alabama in 1945. His parents divorced when he was a boy. Wolff’s mother retained custody of him. As a child, Wolff traveled with his mother, Rosemary, to the Pacific Northwest, where she remarried. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, young Tobias soon was forced to endure life under his strict and cruel stepfather. His efforts to get away from his stepfather led to his selftransformation. I. Author To be continued on the next page
Lesson 5-Say Yes I.Author That period of Wolff's life is recounted in This Boy's Life:A Memoir,which was later made into a film. He lives with his family in upstate New York and teaches writing at Syracuse University. From 1964 through 1968,Wolff served as a lieutenant with the U.S.Army Special Forces(Green Berets)in Vietnam.He later recounted his wartime experiences in the memoir In the Pharaoh's Army: Memoirs of the Lost War. In 1972 Wolff earned his B.A.and then his M.A. from Oxford University with First Class Honors in English three years later. W BT L E To be continued on the next page BACK
Lesson 5—Say Yes W B T L E That period of Wolff’s life is recounted in This Boy’s Life: A Memoir, which was later made into a film. He lives with his family in upstate New York and teaches writing at Syracuse University. From 1964 through 1968, Wolff served as a lieutenant with the U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Berets) in Vietnam. He later recounted his wartime experiences in the memoir In the Pharaoh’s Army: Memoirs of the Lost War. In 1972 Wolff earned his B.A. and then his M.A. from Oxford University with First Class Honors in English three years later. To be continued on the next page. I. Author
Lesson 5-Say Yes I. Author He is the author of the short novel The Barracks Thief,which won the 1985 PEN/Faulkner Award;two collections of short stories,Back in the World (collecting "Say Yes")and In the Garden of the North American Martyrs,which received the Saint Lawrence Award for fiction in 1982. W BT L E The end of Author
Lesson 5—Say Yes W B T L E He is the author of the short novel The Barracks Thief, which won the 1985 PEN/Faulkner Award; two collections of short stories, Back in the World (collecting “Say Yes”) and In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, which received the Saint Lawrence Award for fiction in 1982. I. Author The end of Author