(1)Have you got any dreams?Ifso,what are they? (2)What do you think are needed to fulfill one's dreams? (3)A Hindu proverb says,"Luck is one half of success."How do you understand this proverb? 2.Introductory Remarks A high school student"announced"in class that she was going to write and illustrate her own books,it must have taken great courage on her part to do so. She never expected that she would be bluntly discouraged by her English teacher and laughed at by her classmates.A few years later,this student wrote her first book Crying Wind.which soon became a bestseller,and was translated into 15 languages The book also became required reading in Native American schools in Canada.By the time she wrote this article she had been an author of books.She does not think of herself as a"genius"with a gift for writing.She even claims that she never writes "ight"That's the life story told us by a woman writer,Linda Stafford by name 3.Background Information about the Author Linda Stafford,a Native American writer,was bom in 1943 and raised by her grandmother on an Indian reservation.She attended the University of Colorado,1961; university of Texas,1966;university of New Mexico,1967,and the University of Alaska,1969.Her autobiographies are based on her experiences with poverty, prejudice.and her search to find herself.Her birth name isCrying Wind and she writes under the pseudonym Gwendlelynn Lovequist and Linda Stafford.All her books have a message of hope and the optimistic theme of not giving up because things will get better. Step Two Global Reading 1.True or False Questions (1)When Linda told her English class that she was going to write and illustrate her own books,all of them believed she could. (2)Linda has had lots of her work published before she graduated from high school. (3)Household chores had to be done when she was on her first book (4)The name of her second book is Crying Wind. (1) Have you got any dreams? If so, what are they? (2) What do you think are needed to fulfill one’s dreams? (3) A Hindu proverb says, “Luck is one half of success.” How do you understand this proverb? 2. Introductory Remarks A high school student “announced” in class that she was going to write and illustrate her own books; it must have taken great courage on her part to do so. She never expected that she would be bluntly discouraged by her English teacher and laughed at by her classmates. A few years later, this student wrote her first book Crying Wind, which soon became a bestseller, and was translated into 15 languages. The book also became required reading in Native American schools in Canada. By the time she wrote this article she had been an author of 8 books. She does not think of herself as a “genius” with a gift for writing. She even claims that she never writes “right”. That’s the life story told us by a woman writer, Linda Stafford by name. 3. Background Information about the Author Linda Stafford, a NativeAmerican writer, was born in 1943 and raised by her grandmother on an Indian reservation. She attended the University of Colorado, 1961; university of Texas, 1966; university of New Mexico, 1967, and the University of Alaska, 1969. Her autobiographies are based on her experiences with poverty, prejudice, and her search to find herself. Her birth name is Crying Wind and she writes under the pseudonym Gwendlelynn Lovequist and Linda Stafford. All her books have a message of hope and the optimistic theme of not giving up because things will get better. Step Two Global Reading 1. True or False Questions (1)When Linda told her English class that she was going to write and illustrate her own books, all of them believed she could. (2)Linda has had lots of her work published before she graduated from high school. (3) Household chores had to be done when she was on her first book. (4) The name of her second book is Crying Wind