1-阅读感悟
Chapter 2 的文章难度明显小于Chapter 1。林语堂先从景色描写起，通过长江（the Yangtse River）带读者找到了苏东坡的家乡眉山。叙述完眉山的景色后，林语堂开始写苏东坡的生日、他的爷爷和爸爸，末尾写了四川的人杰地灵。
林语堂写眉山写四川，道出环境对人成长的影响；写苏东坡的家族，旨在于交代苏东坡的优良品质和聪明才智源于何处。
写传记的同时，林语堂也在写文化。在写苏东坡的birthday时，写到了中国传统上对岁数的算法：“A Chinese baby is "one year old" the moment he is born, following the general pattern of everyone's desiring to reach venerable age as quickly as possible.” 还写到了中国重男轻女的传统，这个已有群友分享。
另一点印象深刻地是，林语堂在写四川的部分，写到了当地的人被视为“difficult to govern”，而苏东坡认为应理解为当地的人“could not be easily bullied by a magistrate”。这段写到了文明的作用，文明给人更为独立思考的能力，批判性地接受事物，比一味地被奴化更值得提倡。
2-Guiding task
(1) Chapter 2 mainly wants to tell us why Su Tungpo has such a great personality and intelligence.
(2)impressive sentences
①"......with determination and industry, success always awaits a man."
If you want to do something, just go ahead. Don't excuse yourself that it's too late or I'm too old.
②“No sooner was the name conferred than it had to be changed.”
The sentence pattern is difficult for me, so I want to remember it.
③“Possessing a high intelligence, severe in temperament, independent in mind, and crotchety in character, Su Shun was not a man easy to get along with.”
A good sentence pattern to describe a person.
3-词组
sentence to 使... ...遭受；被判处
比如 be sentenced to death。