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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; practically nothing
Google ClassroomA short extract from the short story The Open Window; created for ELA practice.
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- [Narrator] "Do you know many
of the people around here?" asked the niece, when she'd
judged that they had had sufficient silent communion. "Hardly a soul," said Framton. "My sister was staying here,
at the rectory, you know, "some four years ago, and she gave me "letters of introduction to
some of the people here." He made the last statement
in a tone of distinct regret. "Then you know practically
nothing about my aunt?" pursued the self-possessed young lady. "Only her name and address,"
admitted the caller. He was wondering whether Mrs. Sappleton was in the married or widowed state. An indefinable something about the room seemed to suggest masculine habitation.