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Christmas Day in the Morning Step 1. Background Information Warming-up questions Question 1: How much do you know about Pearl S. Buck(1892-1973)? About Pearl S. Buck A friend of Chinese people A Literature Nobel Prize Laureate In 1915 she met a Cornell graduate, John Lossing Buck, who became her husband in 1917. They moved to South Xuzhou, Anhui province where she gathered the materials she would use in The Good Earth and other stories. Their marriage was unhappy but would last 18 years. Pearl’s first child proved to be retarded（智力迟钝的，低能的） and Pearl herself underwent a hysterectomy（子宫切除术）. The couple later adopted a baby girl. Pearl and her family 1st husband: John Lossing Buck, a Cornell graduate Carol (first child): Profoundly retarded Janice: adopted child 1st Marriage: unhappy but last 18 years 2nd husband: Richard Walsh, a publisher Pearl’s works: East wind, West Wind The Good Earth Dragon Seed The Big Wave Satan Never Sleeps Pearl and Her Prizes Pulitzer Prize and Howells Medal for The Good Earth Nobel Prize in Literature 1938 for The Good Earth we wish you a merry Christmas;we wish you a merry Christmas;we wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year.good tidings we bring to you and your kin;we wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. oh, we all want some figgy pudding;oh, we all want some figgy pudding;oh, bring us a figgy pudding and bring it right herewe wont go until we get some;we wont go until we get some;we wont go until we get some, so bring some out here Question 2: Can you tell us something about Christianity and Christmas? The Story of the Christ Child and Christmas When Rome was a great Empire ruled by Caesar Augustus and Israel was governed by King Herod, in the village of Nazareth lived Joseph and Mary. Joseph was a carpenter and Mary was a young virgin who would become his wife. Mary told Joseph of a dream in which she was visited by an angel who told her she had been chosen to bear the Son of God and his na