McDougal Littell Literature — Student Textbook — Grade 10
McDougal Littell
Language: English
Pages: 1418
ISBN: 2:00192550
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McDougal Littell Literature — Student Textbook — Grade 10
because, blue, imagine it! How could the sky ever have been blue? You might as well say, “In the days when the grass was pink.” Stars, rainbows, and all other such heavenly sideshows had been permanently withdrawn, and if the radio announced that there was a blink of sunshine in such and such a place, where the cloud belt had thinned for half an hour, cars and buses would pour in that direction for days in an unavailing search for warmth and light. a After the wedding, when all the relations were
a piece of equipment that could save you. c USE TEXT FEATURES Notice how the material in parentheses helps you understand point 7, Play. Read the rest of the section. Then explain in your own words how survivors “play.” reading for information 97 80 8. See the beauty (remember: it’s a vision quest). Survivors are attuned to the wonder of the world. The appreciation of beauty, the feeling of awe, opens the senses. When you see something beautiful, your pupils actually dilate. This
shelter in a cave. 180 190 Gertrude never found out who it was that carried her up the hill, but he eventually deposited her with a family named Metz, who lived in a frame tenement also occupied by five other families. The place looked like paradise to her, but she was still so terrified that she was unable to say a word as the Metz children, neighbors, and people in off the street jammed into the kitchen to look at her as she lay wrapped now in a pair of red-flannel underwear with Mason jars
sent streams down. And then the little dikes washed out and the water came inside, and the streams wet the beds and the blankets. The people sat in wet clothes. They set up boxes and put planks on the boxes. Then, day and night, they sat on the planks. Beside the tents the old cars stood, and water fouled the ignition wires and water fouled the carburetors. The little gray tents stood in lakes. And at last the people had to move. Then the cars wouldn’t start because the wires were shorted; and if
Reference: Punctuation Quick Reference: Capitalization Nouns Pronouns Verbs Modifiers The Sentence and Its Parts Phrases Verbals and Verbal Phrases Clauses The Structure of Sentences Writing Complete Sentences Subject-Verb Agreement Vocabulary and Spelling Handbook Using Context Clues Analyzing Word Structure Understanding Word Origins Synonyms and Antonyms Denotation and Connotation Analogies R2 R2 R3 R8 R14 R21 R27 R28 R28 R30 R34 R36 R37 R40 R42 R46 R46 R48 R49 R51 R52 R52 R55 R57 R59 R60