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Susan Tywoniuk

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Alice Barlow-Kedves

Thora O’Grady

Judy Onody

Wendy Mathieu

Susan Tywoniuk

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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


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


When Jannies Visited Mary West Pratt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

The Protected Areas Vision Partnership for Public Lands . . . . . 246

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