7SIGHTL I N E SSIGHTL I N E SP 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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Karen Hume

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Susan Tywoniuk

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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

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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

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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150retold by Ronald Melzack Short Story (Inuit legend)Immigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154William Lyon Mackenzie and John Robert Colombo PoetryScarlatina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Joanne Findon Short Story (historical fiction)

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

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

Frederick Douglass: 18171895. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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

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

Mary Shelleys Frankenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182retold by Steve Parker Short Story (historical horror)

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

Spellbound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193Emily Bront 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 Teenagers Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206Ernst Schnabel Nonfiction (article)

One Thousand Cranes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209Al P