Unit 5 Giving Thanks
Text A Writing Three Thank-You Letters
Text Organization
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Parte Paragraphs Main Ideas
Part One Paras 1-9 On Thanksgiving Day 1943, as a young coastguardsman at
sea, the writer came up with the idea of expressing his gratitude to people who
had helped him before.
Part Two Paras 10-16 The writer wrote three thank-you letters to his father, the
Rev. Nelson and his grandmother.
Part Three Paras 17-23 The writer got three letters in reply.
Part Four Paras 24-26 The writer wishes everyone to find the good and praise it.
Correspondents Letters Sent Letters Received
Father Thanks him for teaching the writer from boyhood to love books and
reading. Tells the writer how he, as a teacher and a father as well, felt content with
his own son.
The Rev. Nelson , Thanks him for his morning
school prayers. I
i Tells the writer about his retirement coupled with self-doubt, and the
re?assurance brought to him by the writer's letter.
Grandmother Thanks her for teaching the writer how to tell the truth, to share and
to be forgiving, and for her good cooking and her sprinkling the writer's life with
Stardust. Expresses her loving gratefulness to her grandson.
Language sense enhancement
1. decades 2. undergoing
3. had done wrong 4. welcome reassurance
5. appreciated 6. brought back
7. relatives 8. accomplish