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7SIGHTL I N E SSIGHTL I N E S

P R E N T I C E H A L L L I T E R A T U R E

Karen Hume

Brad Ledgerwood

Wendy Mathieu

Susan Tywoniuk

P R E N T I C E H A L L L I T E R A T U R E

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SightLines 7Canadian Cataloguing in Publication DataMain entry under title:SightLines 7 anthology(Prentice Hall literature)ISBN 0-13-012904-6I. Readers (Elementary) I. Hume, KarenII. Series: SightLines (Scarborough, ON).PE1121.S523 1999 428.6 C99-930137-3

Copyright © 1999 by Prentice Hall Ginn Canada,Scarborough, OntarioALL RIGHTS RESERVEDNo part of this book may be produced in any form orby any means without permission in writing from thepublishers.

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Publisher: Carol StokesProject Manager: Helen MasonProject Editor and Anthologist: Linda SheppardProduction Editor: Karen AllistonDirector of Secondary Publishing: MaryLynne MeschinoCopy Editor: Julia LeeProduction Co-ordinator: Sharon HoustonPermissions: Michaele SinkoInterior Design: Zena DenchikCover Design: Alex LiCover Image: Tracy WalkerPage Layout: Kyle Gell

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Prentice Hall Canada wishes to acknowledgethe following text and visuals researchers:

Janice Dewar Alexa KudarCatherine RondinaElma SchemenauerJennifer SweeneyKat MototsuneHeli KivilahtKeltie ThomasLaurie SeidlitzMartha Di LeonardoMonika CroydonNancy MackenzieRita Vanden HeuvelTracey Shreve-Williams

Prentice Hall Canada wishes to thank thefollowing:

Assessment Consultant: Michael StubitschEquity Reviewer: Elizabeth ParchmentAboriginal Content: Rocky LandonArt Content Consultant: John Di LeonardoESL Consultant:Joan Penny Lorintt, BCGrade 7 Reviewers: Julie Plesha, BCMarna Shipley, BCDon Quilliams, ABSandra Bishop, ABBrenda Bintz, ABE. Elizabeth Lupton, ONSara Knight, ONBarbara Wohleber, ONJody Mayhew, ONLeo Fox, ABAnna Kennedy, ABNancy Horton, ABMelody Sawkins, ONSusan L. Bruce, BC

Every reasonable effort has been made to obtainpermissions for all text and visuals used in thisedition. If errors or omissions have occurred,they will be corrected in future editionsprovided written notification has been received.

Contents by UnitLookAnd Even Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Dorothy Livesay Poetry

Knife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Sarah Ellis Short Story

Old Men of Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Dionne Brand Poetry

The Wretched Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Chris Van Allsburg Short Story (picture book)

One Who Lives Under the Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Blake Debassige Visual

The White Owl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Hazel Boswell Short Story (folk tale)

Messages Are Everywhere Visual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

The Dinner Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Mona Gardner Short Story

The Revenge of the Blood Thirsty Giant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37C. J. Taylor Short Story (Tlingit legend)

The Phantom Dog Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Harry Paddon Nonfiction

Metamorphosis III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46M. C. Escher Visual

The New Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Stephen Leacock Nonfiction (humorous commentary)

Zoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Edward D. Hoch Short Story (science fiction)

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A Strange Visitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53Robert Zend Poetry

The Rabbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55R. P. MacIntyre Short Story

The Necklace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Guy de Maupassant Short Story

Clever Manka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Ethel Johnston PhelpsOral Piece (traditional folk tale)

Look CloselyI Am. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Ahdri Zhina Mandiela Poetry

Into Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76Raymond Souster Poetry

Silent, but . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Tsuboi Shigeji Poetry

Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78Charlotte Zolotow Poetry

The Scream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Diana J. Wieler Short Story

To Prince Edward Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Alex Colville Visual

Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86Civiane Chung Short Story

from “Gwen” from the novel Annie John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90Jamaica Kincaid Short Story (novel excerpt)

How to Make Your Own Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94Giselle DeGrandis Nonfiction (magazine article)

Learning a New Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97Sung Ja Hong, Joseph Park, Michael MoradNonfiction (personal accounts)

Messages Are Everywhere Visual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Ride the Dark Horse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Margaret Bunel Edwards Short Story

My Name Is Angie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109Beverley Terrell-Deutsch Short Story

Looking for a High? Try Adrenalin! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117Simone Gruenig Nonfiction (magazine article)

Boy at the Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Richard Wilbur Poetry

The Winner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121Peg Kehret Oral Piece (monologue)

Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125Lisa Sloman Poetry

The Medicine Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve Short Story

Towards the Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138Ken Danby Visual

The Forecast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140Dan Jaffe Poetry

The Disaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Bruce Bennett Poetry

Neighbours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Ieva Grants Poetry

A Major in Television & a Minor in Knowledge . . . . . . . . . 143David Suzuki Nonfiction (essay)

Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146Louis Dudek Poetry

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3 Look BackSedna, Mother of the Sea Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

retold by Ronald Melzack Short Story (Inuit legend)

Immigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154William Lyon Mackenzie and John Robert Colombo Poetry

Scarlatina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157Joanne Findon Short Story (historical fiction)

Miners’ Houses, Glace Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166Lawren Harris Visual

The Revenge of the Iron Chink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168Paul Yee Short Story

Frederick Douglass: 1817–1895. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172Langston Hughes Poetry

Louis Riel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173John Robert Colombo Poetry

The Universal Soldier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175Buffy Sainte-Marie Oral Piece (song)

Explorers as Seen by the Natives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177Douglas Fetherling Poetry


Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182retold by Steve Parker Short Story (historical horror)

House Fear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192Robert Frost Poetry

Spellbound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193Emily Brontë Poetry

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The Day the War Came to Halifax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194Julian Beltrame Nonfiction

A Last Look Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202Celia Washington Visual

What Do I Remember of the Evacuation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204Joy Kogawa Poetry

A Teenager’s Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206Ernst Schnabel Nonfiction (article)

One Thousand Cranes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209Al Purdy Poetry

Look BeyondMoon Maiden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Alison Baird Short Story (fantasy)


The Adventurous Life of John Goddard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230Stuart McLean Nonfiction

nobody loses all the time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234e. e. cummings Poetry

Tar Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236Faith Ringgold Visual

Demeter and Persephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238Celia Barker Lottridge Short Story (Greek myth)

What a Certain Visionary Once Said . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241Tomson Highway Nonfiction (essay)

The Passenger Pigeon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243Paul Fleischman Oral Piece (poetry for two voices)

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Gwaii Haanas (Beautiful Place) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245Jenny Nelson Poetry

i lose track of the land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246kateri akiwenzie-damm Poetry

Five Minutes to Change the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248Peg Kehret Oral Piece (play)

That Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256David Kherdian Poetry

Banu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257Farzana Doctor Poetry

Birth of a New Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260Andy Lackow Visual

Eldinah’s Journey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262Lisa Waldick Nonfiction (magazine article)

Snow White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266Nasa Begum Nonfiction (personal account)

Goalie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271Rudy Thauberger Short Story

Rosa Parks: Model of Courage, Symbol of Freedom . . . . . . 277Rosa Parks with Gregory J. ReedNonfiction (biography & letters)

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Contents by GenreShort StoriesKnife Sarah Ellis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

The Wretched Stone (picture book) Chris Van Allsburg . . . . . . 16

The White Owl (folk tale) Hazel Boswell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

The Dinner Party Mona Gardner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

The Revenge of the Blood Thirsty Giant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 (Tlingit legend) C. J. Taylor

Zoo (science fiction) Edward D. Hoch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

The Rabbit R. P. MacIntyre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

The Necklace Guy de Maupassant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

The Scream Diana J. Wieler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Tradition Civiane Chung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

from “Gwen” from the novel Annie John Jamaica Kincaid . . . . 90

Ride the Dark Horse Margaret Bunel Edwards . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

My Name Is Angie Beverley Terrell-Deutsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

The Medicine Bag Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Sedna, Mother of the Sea Animals (Inuit legend) . . . . . . . . . . . 150retold by Ronald Melzack

Scarlatina (historical fiction) Joanne Findon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

The Revenge of the Iron Chink Paul Yee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (historical horror) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182retold by Steve Parker

Moon Maiden (fantasy) Alison Baird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Demeter and Persephone (Greek myth) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238Celia Barker Lottridge

Goalie Rudy Thauberger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

PoetryAnd Even Now Dorothy Livesay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Old Men of Magic Dionne Brand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

A Strange Visitor Robert Zend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

I Am Ahdri Zhina Mandiela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Into Night Raymond Souster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Silent, but… Tsuboi Shigeji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Change Charlotte Zolotow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Boy at the Window Richard Wilbur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Time Lisa Sloman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

The Forecast Dan Jaffe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

The Disaster Bruce Bennett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Neighbours Ieva Grants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Freedom Louis Dudek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Immigrants William Lyon Mackenzie and. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154John Robert Colombo

Frederick Douglass: 1817–1895 Langston Hughes . . . . . . . . . . 172

Louis Riel John Robert Colombo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Explorers as Seen by the Natives Douglas Fetherling . . . . . . . 177

House Fear Robert Frost. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Spellbound Emily Brontë . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

What Do I Remember of the Evacuation? Joy Kogawa . . . . . . . 204

One Thousand Cranes Al Purdy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

nobody loses all the time e. e. cummings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Gwaii Haanas (Beautiful Place) Jenny Nelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

i lose track of the land kateri akiwenzie-damm . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

That Day David Kherdian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Banu Farzana Doctor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

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NonfictionThe Phantom Dog Team Harry Paddon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

The New Food (humorous commentary) Stephen Leacock. . . . . 48

How to Make Your Own Web Site (magazine article) Giselle DeGrandis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Learning a New Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97Sung Ja Hong, Joseph Park, Michael Morad

Looking for a High? Try Adrenalin! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 (magazine article) Simone Gruenig

A Major in Television & a Minor in Knowledge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 (essay) David Suzuki

The Day the War Came to Halifax Julian Beltrame . . . . . . . . . 194

A Teenager’s Legacy (magazine article) Ernst Schnabel. . . . . . 206

The Adventurous Life of John Goddard Stuart McLean . . . . . . 230

What a Certain Visionary Once Said (essay)Tomson Highway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Eldinah’s Journey (magazine article) Lisa Waldick . . . . . . . . . 262

Snow White Nasa Begum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Rosa Parks: Model of Courage, Symbol of Freedom . . . . . . . . . . 277 (biography and letters)Rosa Parks with Gregory J. Reed

Oral PiecesClever Manka (traditional folk tale) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Ethel Johnston Phelps

The Winner (monologue) Peg Kehret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

The Universal Soldier (song) Buffy Sainte-Marie . . . . . . . . . . . 175

The Passenger Pigeon (poem for two voices) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243Paul Fleischman

Five Minutes to Change the World (play) Peg Kehret. . . . . . . . 248

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VisualsOne Who Lives Under the Water Blake Debassige. . . . . . . . . . . 24

Messages Are Everywhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Metamorphosis III M. C. Escher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

To Prince Edward Island Alex Colville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Messages Are Everywhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Towards the Hill Ken Danby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Miners’ Houses, Glace Bay Lawren Harris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166


A Last Look Back Celia Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202


Tar Beach Faith Ringgold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Birth of a New Technology Andy Lackow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

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