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8SIGHTL I N E SSIGHTL I N E SAlice Barlow-Kedves
Judy Onody
Thora O’Grady
Wendy Mathieu
Susan Tywoniuk
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Alice Barlow-Kedves
Thora O’Grady
Judy Onody
Wendy Mathieu
Susan Tywoniuk
P R E N T I C E H A L L G I N N C A N A D A
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SIGHTL I N E SSIGHTL I N E S
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SightLines 8Canadian Cataloguing in Publication DataMain entry under title:SightLines 8 anthology(Prentice Hall literature)ISBN 0-13-012905-4I. Readers (Elementary). I. Barlow-Kedves, AliceII. Series: Sightlines (Scarborough, ON)PE1121.S524 1999 428’6 C99-930139-x
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Contents by UnitLookThe Street That Got Mislaid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Patrick Waddington Short Story
Optrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Larry Evans Visual
Thank You, Ma’am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Langston Hughes Short Story
Your Hidden Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Nonfiction (handbook excerpt)
The Tell-Tale Heart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
Ragged Sonnet #64 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Leonard Nathan Poetry
Messages Are Everywhere Visual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The Monkey’s Paw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32W. W. Jacobs Oral Piece (play)
How To Hang Up the Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42Delia Ephron Oral Piece (dialogue)
The Hockey Sweater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Roch Carrier Short Story (picture book)
Catch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Sarah Ellis Short Story
Ambush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Tim O’Brien Short Story
At School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Mir Sayyid-Ali Visual
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Look CloselyThe Cool Crowd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Phyllis Hersh Keaton Nonfiction (magazine article)
See Saw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Dennis Foon Oral Piece (play excerpt)
Tricks of the Trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Nonfiction (essay)
Barbie Collectibles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88Mattel, Inc. Visual
Messages Are Everywhere Visual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Handling Anger and Resolving Conflict. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92Nonfiction (handbook excerpt)
The Child Who Walks Backwards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96Lorna Crozier Poetry
Life Sentence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98Nicole Axworthy Nonfiction (magazine article)
Making Canadian Hockey History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103Robin Wheeler Nonfiction (interview)
Who Is Disabled? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109Tony Wong Poetry
Day of the Butterfly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111Alice Munro Short Story
My Guilt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123Agnes Copithorne Poetry
Out of My Skin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126Tessa McWatt Short Story (novel excerpt)
Dust Devil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128Jeannette Armstrong Poetry
Some Tings Lie So Deep. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129Denise Barnard Short Story
You Have Two Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Nancy Prasad Poetry
All Our Worldly Goods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138Peter Ginter Visual
My Mother, Who Came from China, Where SheNever Saw Snow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Laureen Mar Poetry
Look BackHow the Opossum Stole Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
retold by Fernando Benítez Short Story (legend)
What I Learned from Raoul Wallenberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152Tom Veres Nonfiction (magazine article)
Carrying the Running-Aways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157retold by Virginia Hamilton Short Story (folk tale)
Mandela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161Bill Schiller Nonfiction (newspaper article)
My Hero Mandela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165Kano Mofokeng Poetry
Black Patent Leather Shoes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166Karen L. Mitchell Poetry
Messages Are Everywhere Visual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Uncovering the Rose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170Nonfiction (magazine article)
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Julius Caesar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173William Shakespeare Oral Piece (play excerpt)
Poet (for Irina Ratushinskaya) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174Vikram Seth Poetry
Why Canada Has To Beat Its Literacy Problem. . . . . . . . . . 176June Callwood Nonfiction (essay)
It’s Different Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182Robert B. Foster Poetry
Canoe Manned by Voyageurs Passing a Waterfall . . . . . . . . 184Frances Anne Hopkins Visual
Higher Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186Beverley Brenna Short Story
The Ukrainian Pioneer #3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194William Kurelek Visual
Things Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196Dora Forstrom Nonfiction (memoir)
An Evening Walk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200Emma LaRocque Poetry
A L’Ile Blanche (At White Island) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202Acadian folksong Poetry (song)
When I Was a Little Girl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204Joy Kogawa Poetry
The Stolen Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206Liliana Heker Short Story
While I Was Looking at the Background YouWalked Out of the Picture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Jan Conn Poetry
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Look BeyondThe Earth-ling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Brian Patten Poetry
From Glenn to Glenn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220adapted from Time Magazine Visual
The Moth and the Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222James Thurber Short Story (fable)
A Wish Named Arnold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Charles De Lint Short Story
Messages Are Everywhere Visual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Dracula’s Dinner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234Nonfiction (science experiment)
When Jannies Visited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238Mary West Pratt Visual
Strokes of Genius. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240Lester David Nonfiction (magazine article)
Northern Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243Doug McLarty Nonfiction (essay)
The Protected Areas Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246Partnership for Public Lands Visual
The Veldt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248Ray Bradbury Short Story
Dreams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265Budge Wilson Short Story
Song of the Dream People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272Greenland Inuit Poetry (song)
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Night on Gull Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry
Friends All of Us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276Pablo Neruda Nonfiction (memoir)
The Circle Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278Joni Mitchell Poetry (song lyrics)
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Contents by GenreNonfictionYour Hidden Skills (handbook excerpt) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
The Cool Crowd (magazine article) Phyllis Hersh Keaton . . . . . 68
Tricks of the Trade (essay) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Handling Anger and Resolving Conflict (handbook excerpt) . . . . . 92
Life Sentence (magazine article) Nicole Axworthy . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Making Canadian Hockey History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103(interview) Robin Wheeler
What I Learned from Raoul Wallenberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152(magazine article) Tom Veres
Mandela (newspaper article) Bill Schiller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Uncovering the Rose (magazine article) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Why Canada Has To Beat Its Literacy Problem (essay) . . . . . . . . 176June Callwood
Things Past (memoir) Dora Forstrom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Dracula’s Dinner (science experiment) Yes Magazine . . . . . . . . . 234
Strokes of Genius (magazine article) Lester David . . . . . . . . . 240
Northern Life (essay) Doug McLarty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Friends All of Us (memoir) Pablo Neruda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
PoetryRagged Sonnet #64 Leonard Nathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
The Child Who Walks Backwards Lorna Crozier. . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Who Is Disabled? Tony Wong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
My Guilt Agnes Copithorne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Dust Devil Jeannette Armstrong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
You Have Two Voices Nancy Prasad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
My Mother, Who Came from China, Where She NeverSaw Snow Laureen Mar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
My Hero Mandela Kano Mofokeng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Black Patent Leather Shoes Karen L. Mitchell . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Poet (for Irina Ratushinskaya) Vikram Seth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
It’s Different Now Robert B. Foster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
An Evening Walk Emma LaRocque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
A L’Ile Blanche (At White Island) Acadian folksong . . . . . . . . 202
When I Was a Little Girl Joy Kogawa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
While I Was Looking at the Background You Walked Out of the Picture Jan Conn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
The Earth-ling Brian Patten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Song of the Dream People Greenland Inuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Night on Gull Lake Gwendolyn MacEwen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
The Circle Game Joni Mitchell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Short StoriesThe Street That Got Mislaid Patrick Waddington . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Thank You, Ma’am Langston Hughes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
The Hockey Sweater (picture book) Roch Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Catch Sarah Ellis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Ambush Tim O’Brien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
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Day of the Butterfly Alice Munro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Out of My Skin (novel excerpt) Tessa McWatt . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Some Tings Lie So Deep Denise Barnard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
How the Opossum Stole Fire (legend) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146retold by Fernando Benítez
Carrying the Running-Aways (folk tale) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157retold by Virginia Hamilton
Higher Ground Beverley Brenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
The Stolen Party Liliana Heker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
The Moth and the Star (fable) James Thurber . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
A Wish Named Arnold Charles de Lint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
The Veldt Ray Bradbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Dreams Budge Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Oral PiecesThe Monkey’s Paw (play) W. W. Jacobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
How To Hang Up the Telephone (dialogue) Delia Ephron . . . . . 42
See Saw (play excerpt) Dennis Foon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Julius Caesar (play excerpt) William Shakespeare . . . . . . . . . 173
VisualsOptrick Larry Evans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Messages Are Everywhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
At School Mir Sayyid-Ali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Barbie Collectibles Mattel, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Messages Are Everywhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
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All Our Worldly Goods Peter Ginter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Messages Are Everywhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Canoe Manned by Voyageurs Passing a Waterfall . . . . . . . . . . . 184Frances Anne Hopkins
The Ukrainian Pioneer #3 William Kurelek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
From Glenn to Glenn adapted from Time Magazine . . . . . . . . 220
Messages Are Everywhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
When Jannies Visited Mary West Pratt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
The Protected Areas Vision Partnership for Public Lands . . . . . 246
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