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Leveled Differentiated instruction
Offer students support with reading and comprehension by having them read each text in pairs.
Em As pairs finish each paragraph, have them work
together to answer the question,
What is the central idea of this paragraph?
Ex Instruct students to stop after they read each paragraph to
paraphrase the key ideas that they have read so far.
Br After each paragraph, students should take turns
asking each other questions about what they have read so far. Remind students to build on each other’s responses to the questions and provide useful feedback about their answers.
Support Have students pause after reading half of the text to summarize what they have
read so far.
Stretch Challengestudents to look at specific
information about Mandela’s leadership skills as they read the two texts and discuss how each piece of information helps them understand Mandela’s character.
Text Complexity Overall: Complex
Lexile: 1250L
Qualitative: Medium Difficulty Task: Accessible (Understand)
8 Use a think aloud to model marking the first chunk of the autobiography excerpt.
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How might the meaning of the sentence change if the author
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had used another word, such as strong? What is the meaning of the word potent? What are some synonyms for potent? What else do we usually describe as potent? How is potent slightly different than the words powerful or strong?
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a Long Walk to peace
Nelson Mandela
K: What I Know
W: What I Want to Know
H: How I Will Find Out
L: What I Learned
Nobel Prize Biography
Autobiographical Excerpt
my Notes
Setting a Purpose for reading
• As you read the excerpt from Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, underline the sentences that refer to freedom and hunger.
• Circle unknown words and phrases. Try to determine the meanings of the words by using context clues, word parts, or a dictionary.
• Put a star next to vivid imagery.
Long Walk to Freedom:
With Connections
by Nelson Mandela
1 I was not born with a hunger to be free. I was born free — free in every way that I could know. Free to run in the fields near my mother’s hut, free to swim in the clear stream that ran through my village, free to roast mealies under the stars and ride the broad backs of slow-moving bulls. As long as I obeyed my father and abided by the customs of my tribe, I was not troubled by the laws of man or God.
About the Author
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) was an anti-apartheid activist who spend many years in a South African jail. After his release in 1990, he was elected the first black president of South Africa. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
autobiography
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