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PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE S IGHT SSIGHTIGHTLL INESINES Alice Barlow-Kedves L INES 9 Carrie Collins Ian Mills 9 Robin Pearson Wendy Mathieu Susan Tywoniuk PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE SightLines 7 0-13-012904-6 SightLines 8 0-13-012905-4 SightLines 9 0-13-012906-2 SightLines 10 0-13-082171-3 ISBN 0-13-012906-2 9 780130 129062 PRENTICE HALL PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE SSIGHTIGHTLL INESINES Alice Barlow-Kedves 9 Carrie Collins Ian Mills Robin Pearson Wendy Mathieu Susan Tywoniuk PRENTICE HALL GINN CANADA Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Prentice Hall Canada wishes to acknowledge the Main entry under title: following text and visuals researchers: Sightlines 9 anthology Karen Taylor (Prentice Hall literature) Alexa Kudar ISBN 0-13-012906-2 Catherine Rondina Elma Schemenauer I. Readers (Secondary) I. Barlow-Kedves, Alice Janice Dewar II. Series: Sightlines (Scarborough, ON) Jennifer Sweeney PE1121.S525 1999 428’.6 C99-930141-1 Kat Mototsune Keli Kivilaht Copyright © 1999 by Prentice Hall Canada, Keltie Thomas Scarborough, Ontario Lauri Seidlitz ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Martha Di Leonardo No part of this book may be reproduced in any Monika Croydon form or by any means without permission in Nancy Mackenzie writing from the publishers. Rita Van den Heuvel Tracey Shreve-Williams Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey Prentice Hall Canada wishes to thank the Prentice-Hall International, Inc., London following: Prentice-Hall of Australia, Pty., Ltd., Sydney Assessment Consultant: Michael Stubitsch Prentice Hall of India Pvt., Ltd., New Delhi Equity Reviewer: Elizabeth Parchment Prentice-Hall of Japan, Inc., Tokyo Aboriginal Content Consultant: Rocky Landon Prentice-Hall of Southeast Asia (PTE) Ltd., Art Content Consultant: John Di Leonardo Singapore ESL Consultant: Joan Penny Lorintt, BC Editora Prentice-Hall do Brasil Ltda., Grade 9 Reviewers: Elizabeth Woods, BC Rio de Janeiro David Achurch, BC Prentice-Hall Hispanoamericana, S.A., Mexico Colleen Midmore, BC Leigh Oswin, AB ISBN 0-13-012906-2 Bryan Rees, AB Publisher: Carol Stokes Calvin Wodinski, AB Project Manager: Helen Mason Bryan J. Smith, ON Project Editor and Anthologist: Chelsea Gina Tousignant, ON Donaldson Bruce Bartlett, ON Production Editor: Karen Alliston Anna De Iuliis, NS Director of Secondary Publishing: MaryLynne Jill Davidson, NB Meschino Percy MacGougan, PEI Copy Editor: Isobel Stevenson Lori MacPherson, PEI Production Co-ordinator: Kathrine Pummell Elizabeth Kelsey, NF Permissions: Karen Taylor Dale Loveridge, NF Cover and Interior Design: Alex Li Lois Jeffery, NF Page Layout: Gail Ferreira Ng-A-Kien Amanda Joseph, NF Cover and Section Opening Images: Laura Okemaw, AB Paul Watson/Three-In-A-Box Sandra Bishop, AB Printed and bound in Canada Lisa Robertson, AB 4 5 6 7 8 TP 05 04 03 02 01 00 C ontents C ontents by Unit Unit 1 Look At the Bus Stop, One Autumn Morning poetry M. W. Field . 2 Gore short story Sarah Ellis . 3 Transformation Mask visual traditional Haida mask . 9 Lamb to the Slaughter short story Roald Dahl . 10 The Execution poetry Alden Nowlan . 19 The Conservationist visual Boyd Webb. 20 The Open Window oral piece (stage adaptation) Henry Gilfond . 22 The Last Saskatchewan Pirate poetry (protest song) The Arrogant Worms. 28 Messages Are Everywhere visual . 30 Coup de Grâce poetry A. D. Hope . 32 The Interlopers short story “Saki” (H. H. Munro) . 33 Once Upon a Time short story Nadine Gordimer . 39 Save the Moon for Kerdy Dickus short story Tim Wynne-Jones . 44 Contents iii The Sacred Rac non-fiction (anthropological report) Patricia Hughes . 54 The Blue Bead short story Norah Burke . 56 The Toad poetry (extended metaphor) Juan José Arreola, translated by W. S. Merwin. 63 Think Like a Weightlifter, Think Like a Woman poetry Kate Braid . 64 What Happened During the Ice Storm short story (vignette) Jim Heynen . 66 Unit 2 Look Closely Two Prisoners poetry Raymond Souster . 70 Our Appearance… non-fiction (quotation) Kahlil Gibran . 71 Eggs in Egg Crate visual Mary Pratt. 72 Living Life to the Max non-fiction (profile) Penny Williams . 73 I Live in a Language That’s Not Mine non-fiction (personal essay) Carmen Rodriguez . 76 Golden Girl short story Gillian Chan . 78 Children to School visual Maud Lewis . 93 The Brute oral piece (stage play) Anton Chekhov, translated by Eric Bentley . 94 Crosswords poetry (shape poem) Gina Douthwaite . 109 To My Son poetry Helen Fogwill Porter . 110 Someone Who Used to Have Someone poetry Miriam Waddington . 111 iv Contents Long, Long After School short story Ernest Buckler . 11 2 Imperfectly poetry (song lyric) Ani DiFranco . 11 7 All poetry Leona Gom. 11 8 How to Tell Renata short story Linda Holeman . 11 9 Instructions to my Mother poetry Marilyn Dumont . 126 Messages Are Everywhere visual . 128 The Taste of Melon short story Borden Deal. 130 I Was a Teenage Ingénue non-fiction (magazine article) Leah Ross. 142 To Christine poetry Susan Forde . 146 The Game non-fiction (book excerpt) Ken Dryden . 147 Commercial non-fiction (satire) John Updike. 152 Unit 3 Look Back Pangaea poetry Sally Ito. 158 Tlingit National Anthem oral piece (traditional story) as told by Robert Willard Jr.. 160 Black Hull (from “Atlantic Elegy”) poetry (excerpt) Harry Thurston . 162 Irraweka, Mischief-maker short story (myth) retold by Philip Sherlock . 164 How Rocks Were Born oral piece (myth) translated by Lawrence Millman . 168 Contents v Postcards to Pele non-fiction (magazine article) James Houston . 170 Beside a Stone… poetry (haiku) Christine M. Krishnasami . 173 The Song of The Lambton Worm poetry (ballad) Anonymous . 174 Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady short story (romance) retold by Selina Hastings, illustrated by Juan Wijngaard. 176 Habitant Farm visual Cornelius Krieghoff. 183 The Highwayman poetry Alfred Noyes . 184 Messages Are Everywhere visual . 188 In the Silence short story Peggy S. Curry . 190 The Time of the Wolves short story Marcia Muller . 198 The Fighting Days oral piece (play excerpt) Wendy Lill . 210 Myself visual Paraskeva Clark . 215 In Service poetry Maxine Tynes . 216 The Jade Peony short story Wayson Choy . 218 Equal Opportunity poetry Jim Wong-Chu. 226 Montreal 1962 short story Shauna Singh Baldwin . 227 Granny Glover’s Dream poetry Al Pittman . 231 Looking Back poetry Enos D. Watts . 232 Desperate Measures non-fiction (historical account) Alan Shadrake . 234 vi Contents Small Mercies: A Boy After War non-fiction (autobiography) Ernest Hillen . 241 Unit 4 Look Beyond Walking Through a Wall poetry (imaginative description) Louis Jenkins . 250 Dreamworld non-fiction (personal essay) Sharon Butala . 252 The Bridge Builder short story Margaret Mahy . 254 The Child, The Future visual George Littlechild . 262 The Dream non-fiction (memoir) Sandra Bezic . 264 In Praise of Dreams poetry Wislawa Szymborska.