Contents Chapter What’s your story? 6 Language and grammar: adverbs, the relative pronouns who, which, that Multicultural stories personal recounts 10 What makes you you? informative article 16 Model text A visit to the doctor (Roald Dahl) novel excerpt 21 No More Birthdays (Hal Sirowitz) poem 30 Crumbs (Hal Sirowitz) poem 31 The Burning House Project photographs 34 The Art of Being Normal (Lisa Williamson) novel excerpt 36 Easy read Kidding Around (Dave Ward) poem 47 Further reading Illegal life informative article 50 Talking The Burning House Project oral assessment: presentation 54 Test yourself 56 Chapter Role models 102 Language and grammar: adjectives, adverbs Voices in our time (A. Villaseñor, J. Arnold, T. Abdullah) stories 106 The Absolutely True Diary … (Sherman Alexie) novel excerpt 113 Model text The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind review 120 You can Make it Happen! photograph 127 Thank You, Ma’am (Langston Hughes) short story 129 South Africa and the artheid era informative article 138 Robben Island: The dark years (Nelson Mandela) autobiography excerpt 140 Easy read Yusra Mardini (F. Cavallo and E. Favilli) story 146 Further reading Suffragettes informative article 149 Test yourself 154 Chapter Communication 58 Language and grammar: idioms, irregular verbs, negation Note from Dad (Unknown) short letter 62 Model text The Montgomery Bus Boycott informative article 67 I, too (Langston Hughes) poem 77 Lost in translation signs 82 A Day’s Wait (Ernest Hemingway) short story 84 Easy read informative article 92 Further reading Critical literacy – the ability to ask questions informative article 95 Test yourself 100
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