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Lesson 7: Integrated: 8th grade- Funny Business: reading drama; A Midsummer Night's Dream 8
- Funny Business: reading informational text; This Is Your Brain on Comedy 8
- Funny business: vocabulary; A Midsummer Night's Dream 8
- Funny business: reading realistic fiction; An Uncomfortable Bed 8
- Funny business: reading realistic fiction; Use What You Have 8
- Welcome to the Funny Business unit!
- Funny Business: unit vocabulary
- Introduction to A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Obscuring the truth: reading informational text; Why Do We Lie? 8
- Obscuring the truth: reading informational text; The Science of Lying 8
- Obscuring the truth: vocabulary; Why Do We Lie? 8
- Obscuring the truth: reading realistic fiction; One Big Mess 8
- Obscuring the truth: reading realistic fiction; The Open Window 8
- Welcome to the Obscuring the Truth unit!
- Obscuring the Truth: unit vocabulary
- The Open Window extract; practically nothing
- The Open Window extract; paragraph 23
- The Open Window extract; a creepy feeling
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The Open Window extract; a creepy feeling
An extract from the short story The Open Window; created for ELA practice.
Video transcript
- [Narrator] Poor dear
aunt, she has often told me how they went out, her husband with his white
waterproof coat over his arm and Ronnie, her youngest brother, singing Birdie, Why Do You Bound, as he always did to tease her. Because she said it got on her nerves. Do you know, sometimes on
still quiet evenings like this, I almost get a creepy feeling
that they will all walk in through that window, she broke
off with a little shudder. It was a relief to Frampton
when aunt bustled into the room with a world of apologies for being late in making her appearance.