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S IGHT L INES 7
Karen Hume
Brad Ledgerwood
Wendy Mathieu
Susan Tywoniuk

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Karen Hume
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Brad Ledgerwood

Wendy Mathieu

Susan Tywoniuk

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Contents by Unit
Look
And Even Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Dorothy Livesay Poetry

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

Old Men of Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Dionne Brand Poetry

The Wretched Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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Chris Van Allsburg Short Story (picture book)

One Who Lives Under the Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Blake Debassige Visual

The White Owl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Hazel Boswell Short Story (folk tale)

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

The Dinner Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Mona Gardner Short Story

The Revenge of the Blood Thirsty Giant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

C. J. Taylor Short Story (Tlingit legend)

The Phantom Dog Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Harry Paddon Nonfiction

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

The New Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Stephen Leacock Nonfiction (humorous commentary)

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

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

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

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

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

Look Closely
I Am. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Ahdri Zhina Mandiela Poetry

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

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

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

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

To Prince Edward Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Alex Colville Visual

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

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

Jamaica Kincaid Short Story (novel excerpt)

How to Make Your Own Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Giselle DeGrandis Nonfiction (magazine article)

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

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

Ride the Dark Horse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Margaret Bunel Edwards Short Story

My Name Is Angie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Beverley Terrell-Deutsch Short Story

Looking for a High? Try Adrenalin! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Simone Gruenig Nonfiction (magazine article)

Boy at the Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Richard Wilbur Poetry

The Winner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Peg Kehret Oral Piece (monologue)

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

The Medicine Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve Short Story

Towards the Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Ken Danby Visual

The Forecast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Dan Jaffe Poetry

The Disaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Bruce Bennett Poetry

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

A Major in Television & a Minor in Knowledge . . . . . . . . . 143

David Suzuki Nonfiction (essay)

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

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3 Look Back
Sedna, Mother of the Sea Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
retold by Ronald Melzack Short Story (Inuit legend)

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

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

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

Lawren Harris Visual

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

Paul Yee Short Story

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

Langston Hughes Poetry

Louis Riel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

John Robert Colombo Poetry

The Universal Soldier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Buffy Sainte-Marie Oral Piece (song)

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

Douglas Fetherling Poetry

Messages Are Everywhere Visual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

retold by Steve Parker Short Story (historical horror)

House Fear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Robert Frost Poetry

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

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

A Last Look Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Celia Washington Visual

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

Joy Kogawa Poetry

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

One Thousand Cranes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Al Purdy Poetry

Look Beyond
Moon Maiden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Alison Baird Short Story (fantasy)

Messages Are Everywhere Visual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

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

Stuart McLean Nonfiction

nobody loses all the time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

e. e. cummings Poetry

Tar Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Faith Ringgold Visual

Demeter and Persephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Celia Barker Lottridge Short Story (Greek myth)

What a Certain Visionary Once Said . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Tomson Highway Nonfiction (essay)

The Passenger Pigeon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Paul Fleischman Oral Piece (poetry for two voices)

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

i lose track of the land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

kateri akiwenzie-damm Poetry

Five Minutes to Change the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Peg Kehret Oral Piece (play)

That Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

David Kherdian Poetry

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

Birth of a New Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Andy Lackow Visual

Eldinah’s Journey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Lisa Waldick Nonfiction (magazine article)

Snow White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Nasa Begum Nonfiction (personal account)

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

Rosa Parks: Model of Courage, Symbol of Freedom . . . . . . 277

Rosa Parks with Gregory J. Reed
Nonfiction (biography & letters)

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Contents by Genre
Short Stories
Knife 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) . . . . . . . . . . . 150
retold by Ronald Melzack
Scarlatina (historical fiction) Joanne Findon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
The Revenge of the Iron Chink Paul Yee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (historical horror) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
retold by Steve Parker
Moon Maiden (fantasy) Alison Baird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Demeter and Persephone (Greek myth) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Celia Barker Lottridge
Goalie Rudy Thauberger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

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 Poetry
And 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
John 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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Nonfiction
The 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Sung 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 Pieces
Clever 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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Paul Fleischman
Five Minutes to Change the World (play) Peg Kehret. . . . . . . . 248

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 Visuals
One 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
Messages Are Everywhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
A Last Look Back Celia Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Messages Are Everywhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Tar Beach Faith Ringgold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Birth of a New Technology Andy Lackow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

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