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The radio in Grandpa’s workshop only picked up one station, and half of it was static. He kept it on anyway, all day, while he fixed broken lamps and chairs for the neighbors.
"Why don’t you get a new radio?" I asked once.
He turned a screw slowly. "I like the static," he said. "Reminds me that the music has to travel a long way to get here."
After he died, I took the radio home. I could have bought a speaker that played any song in the world. Instead, I sometimes sit in my room and listen to the hiss between the notes, and think about how far things travel to reach us — music, light, love.
Vocabulary: static — determine its meaning from context: ________________
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Free Grade 7 English worksheet (Common Core RL.7.4): analyze point of view, word choice and structure in "Static". Skill: Word choice, structure and point of view. Level: Grade 7 — also suits Year 8 (UK).
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Word choice, structure and point of view.
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