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3 During his years in prison, Nelson Mandela’s reputation grew steadily. He was widely accepted as the most significant black leader in South Africa and became a potent symbol of resistance as the anti-apartheid movement gathered strength. He consistently refused to compromise his political position to obtain his freedom.
4 Nelson Mandela was released on February 11, 1990. After his release, he plunged himself wholeheartedly into his life’s work, striving to attain the goals he and others had set out almost four decades earlier. In 1991, at the first national conference of the ANC held inside South Africa after the organization had been banned in 1960, Mandela was elected President of the ANC while his lifelong friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo, became the organisation’s National Chairperson.
Second read
• Reread the biography of Nelson Mandela to answer these text-dependent questions.
• Write any additional questions you have about the text in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
1. Key Ideas and Details: If you read only paragraph 1 of this biography of Nelson Mandela, what overall impression would you form of him? Why?
He was educated as a lawyer, became a member of the ANC to oppose apartheid, and was arrested for his political activism.
2. Key Ideas and Details: What experiences in Mandela’s life, as described in paragraphs 1 and 2, likely contributed to his reputation in prison?
Mandela’s experiences as an anti-apartheid activist and anti-government rebel likely contributed to his growing reputation as a significant black leader in South Africa.
3. Craft and Structure: What is the impact of the word potent in paragraph 3? How might the meaning of the sentence change if the author had used another word, such as strong?
Potent is associated with people or substances that are not only powerful in their own right but also have a strong effect on others.
Working from the Text
4. Use your text markings and notes to add to your KWHL chart as follows:
• Add new questions to your “W” column.
• Add new information to your “L” column.
• In the “H” column, describe how this source was helpful in understanding what kind of leader Nelson Mandela was.
my Notes
Word CoNNeCTIoNS
Roots & Affixes
The word autobiography consists of three Greek roots: -auto-, meaning “self,” -bio-, meaning “life,” and-graph-, meaning “write.” These roots also appear in other words, such as autograph, biology, automobile, and geography. The suffix -y indicates that the word is a noun.
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Teacher
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4 Based on the observations you made during the first reading, you may want to adjust your reading mode. For example, you may decide for the second reading to read aloud certain complex passages, or you may group students differently.
5 SECOND READ: During the second reading, students will be returning to the text to answer the text-dependent comprehension questions. You may choose to have students reread and work on the questions in a variety of ways:
• independently
• in pairs
• in small groups
• together as a class
6 Have students answer the text-dependent questions. If
they have difficulty, scaffold the questions by rephrasing them or breaking them down into smaller parts. See the Scaffolding the Text- Dependent Questions boxes for suggestions.
TO Teacher
To engage the class, you may want to enhance students’ prior knowledge of Nelson Mandela by showing a photo essay or a brief biographical film clip.
7 Have students mark the text of the Nobel biography of Nelson Mandela, using metacognitive markers. Encourage them to make notes in the “My Notes” section to explain their markers.
Unit 3 • Choices and Consequences 215 ScaFFOLDinG The TexT-DePenDenT QUeSTiOnS
1. Key Ideas and Details (RI.7.1) If you read M 9781457304637_TCB_LAo_SnE_lLy7_pU3a_Pr4a.ingddra21p5 h 1 of this biography of Nelson
Mandela, what overall impression would
you form of him? Reread the first paragraph, looking for specific details about Mandela’s life. Who was he? Where and when did he live? What did he accomplish in the first 43 years of his life?
2. Key Ideas and Details (RI.7.1) What experiences in Mandela’s life, as described
in paragraphs 1 and 2, likely contributed
to his reputation in prison? Scan the first
two paragraphs for details about Mandela’s leadership skills and personal qualities. What was he like as a young man? Was he a man of principle or a dangerous rebel? How did these qualities cause him to become a symbol of resistance?
3. Craft and Structure (RI.7.4) What is the impact of the word potent in paragraph 3?
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