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burning, I turned like ice,” Demczur recalls. “Everything was freezing in me.” Then, the antennas of Tower 1 start to teeter.
13 “I start to run. I kept looking back, saw the building banging down like a pancake.” As he ran, his eyes were burning, his head was pounding, the dust was choking him, and then his body felt numb. A few more blocks away, he noticed how beautiful the day was and, sheepishly admits he began to touch himself to see if he was really alive, like a scene from a silly cartoon.
14 Demczur couldn’t have imagined he’d tell this story to so many, or that his squeegee handle and uniform would become a part of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. He’ll relive a lot of it again this week, when he attends ceremonies in New York and Washington, D.C. But by the end of the year, he hopes to be able to get back to work.
15 “It is a different kind of life. But I prefer the way it was, when people were alive,” Demzcur says.
Second read
• Reread the news article to answer these text-dependent questions.
• Write any additional questions you have about the text in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
1. Craft and Structure: Identify at least three examples of figurative language and imagery in paragraphs 1–3.
2. Key Ideas and Details: What structure does the author use to organize this text — informational or narrative? How do you know? Why is this structure effective?
3. Craft and Structure: According to paragraph 4, Demczur was not a man with vaunting ambition. Based on context, what might vaunting mean?
Grammar USaGe
Verbs
A writer’s verbs determine the intensity and the precision of the content. Intense, strong verbs make
a story come alive for the reader. Weak, vague verbs can often make what was originally an exciting story seem dull and boring. Notice the strong verbs in this sentence: The kids came diving out, jamming in the doorways, pushing into the backs of other kids, knocking each other flat.
my Notes
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