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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
UNIT 1: CHARACTERS IN CONFLICT
Herman (The Haircut) by Jim Unger (cartoon) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Fear by Anne Frank (short story) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Bus Ride by Ligaya Victorio Fruto (short story) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
One of These Days by Gabriel García Márquez (short story) . . . . . . . . . . 13
Nipikti the Old Man Carver by Alootook Ipellie (short story). . . . . . . . . . 17
Relics by Peter Cole (poem) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
denim blues by Rita Wong (poem). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
The Man Who Finds That His Son Has Become a Thief
by Raymond Souster (poem). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
A Boy Grows Older by Morley Callaghan (short story) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Blood Knots by Mallory Burton (short story) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Wedge Island by Lesley Choyce (poem) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
The Interlopers by Saki (H.H. Munro) (short story) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street by Rod Serling (teleplay) . . . . . 47
Reflecting on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
U N I T 2 : FA M E A N D G R E AT N E S S
Outlasting the Fickleness of Fame by Meg Murphy (editorial) . . . . . . . . 62
Candle in the Wind by Bernie Taupin (lyrics) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
The Cartoonist: Lynn Johnston as told to Margo Roston (profile) . . . . . . 68
Up Where She Belongs
by Kathy Ullyott (with Buffy Sainte-Marie) (interview) . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
The TV Host: Oprah Winfrey by Deborah Tannen (profile) . . . . . . . . . . . 76
The Moviemaker: Steven Spielberg by Roger Ebert (profile) . . . . . . . . . . 79
The Phenomenon: Pelé by Henry Kissinger (profile) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
The Ordinary Superstar: Wayne Gretzky by Ken Dryden (profile) . . . . . . 86
Ex-Basketball Player by John Updike (poem) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Poems for Giovanni Caboto by Filippo Salvatore (poem) . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
The Nature of David Suzuki by Jerry Buckley (profile) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Rick Hansen: Still in Motion by Cam Tait (interview) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Mother Teresa: An Exemplary Life
from The Edmonton Journal (editorial) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Reflecting on the Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
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UNIT 3: CRIMES, CRIMINALS, AND JUSTICE
Let Me Tell You about the Crime I Committed
by Sallie Tisdale (magazine article). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
It Was a Year Ago by Grace Caguimbaga (short short story) . . . . . . . . . 114
Paid-up Member by Will R. Bird (short story) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
D.B. Cooper by Max Haines (true crime story) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Flying Off the Handle by Christopher Elliott (Web site news article) . . . 124
Heat Lightning by Robert F. Carroll (play) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
The Great Young Offenders Act Debate
by Stephen R. Bliss (Web site survey) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Debating the Death Penalty
by David Matas & Andrew Allentuck (essays) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Herman (Good Behaviour) by Jim Unger (cartoon) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
The Knife Sharpener by Bonnie Burnard (short story) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Thief by Alice Major (poem) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Citizen’s Arrest by Charles Willeford (short story) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Reflecting on the Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
UNIT 4: MEDIA/TECHNOLOGY INFLUENCES
Herman (TV) by Jim Unger (cartoon) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
I would have e-mailed you by GoTT (birthday card) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
clearNET (print ad). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Exercise Your Options by Alen & Sandra Zukanovic (print ad) . . . . . . . 174
Nortel Networks (print ad) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Got Milk? (print ad) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Spilling Open by Sabrina Ward Harrison (photo essay) . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
October Sky by Gary Johnson (On-Line movie review) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Web Safety: Information for Parents and Kids
by RCMP (Web page article) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
News by George Bowering (poem) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Chatline lingo catching on
by Michelle Macafee (newspaper article) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Ear by Jane Yolen (science-fiction story) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Reflecting on the Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
U N I T 5 : U N D E R S TA N D I N G A N D A C C E P TA N C E
Conceiving the Stranger by Nigel Darbasie (poem) .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Don’t Give Me Looks by Maxine Tynes (poem) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Filing a Complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission
by the Canadian Human Rights Commission (instructions) . . . . . . . . 216
After the Wedding by Marisa Anlin Alps (poem) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
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Touch the Dragon by Karen Connelly (diary entry) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Grandma Weaver’s Last Arrow by Rosemary M. Huggins (short story) . . 226
To Human Race by Syeda Nuzhat Siddiqui (poem) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Canada, My Canada by Tomson Highway (personal essay) . . . . . . . . . . 232
Arctic Plums by Brian Fawcett (memoir) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Jamie by Elizabeth Brewster (poem) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Paper Matches by Paulette Jiles (poem) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Doonesbury (Mother Goose) by G.B. Trudeau (cartoon) . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Little Red Riding Hood by James Finn Garner (fairy tale spoof) . . . . . . 245
Reflecting on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
U N I T 6 : R E L AT I O N S H I P S
The Walk to Paradise Garden by W. Eugene Smith (photograph) . . . . . 250
The Sea Shell by Ed Kleiman (short story). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
One Woman’s Story by Michelle McColm (essay) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Jamaican Dreams by Cynthia Reyes (memoir) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Thanks for being out there, brother by Jennifer Champion (letter) . . . . 267
First Kiss—First Lesson by Jennifer Braunschweiger (memoir) . . . . . . . . 271
First Date by John McPherson (cartoon) .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Berrypicking by Allison Mitcham (poem) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Long Walk to Forever by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (short story) . . . . . . . . . . . 281
How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (poem) . . . . . . . . 289
Peanuts (How did I love thee?) by Charles M. Schulz (cartoon) . . . . . . 291
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman (lyrics) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Remember Africa? by Jo Beth McDaniel (narrative essay) . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Reflecting on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
U N I T 7 : Y O U T H — T H E AWA K E N I N G Y E A R S
Designer Teens by Ian Haysom (newspaper article) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Cooks Brook by Al Pittman (poem) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Shamaya by Susan Aglukark (lyrics) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Powder by Tobias Wolff (short story) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
In the Past by Lesley-Anne Bourne (poem) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
What a Good Boy by Steven Page (lyrics) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
For Better or For Worse (“Hi Mike”) by Lynn Johnston (cartoon) . . . . . 322
Teenage Wasteland by Anne Tyler (short story) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
The Kids Who Make It In from the Cold
by Bob Levin (magazine article) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
“My Father Had Been Drinking”
by William S. Pollack and Todd Shuster (monologue) . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Write Me Sometime by Taien Ng-Chan (memoir) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
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The Slave Fort by Ghassan Kanafani (short story) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Celebration by Al Pittman (poem) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Reflecting on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
UNIT 8: OUT IN THE WORLD
Herman (The Job Interview) by Jim Unger (cartoon) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Preparing for an Interview
by Grammy Asia Ltd. (self-help information) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Short-Order Cook by Jim Daniels (poem) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Ten Steps to Completing a Successful Application Form
by Nancy Schaefer (instructions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Preparing an Effective Résumé (instructions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
Writing for Business (letters, forms, memo) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Youth Employment Strategy
by Youth Employment Canada (brochure) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Creating a Visual Package by Marcelle Lapow Toor (instructions) . . . . . 380
“Hash for Cash” by Gina Higgins (poem) .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
How to Become a Millionaire by Rod McQueen (self-help article) . . . . 387
Are You a Risk-Taker?
by M. Zuckerman & D.M. Kuhlman (questionnaire) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Speaking in Public (instructional essay) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
A is for Attitude! (feature articles) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Raiding the North from What! A Magazine (magazine article) . . . . . . . 400
Reflecting on the Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
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