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Comparing Text and Film
overt: open, not secret
my Notes
5 Mandela never made his purpose overt in that first meeting with Pienaar, but he did edge closer to the main theme when he switched the conversation to his memories of the Barcelona Olympic Games, which he had attended in 1992 and recalled with great enthusiasm. “He talked about the power that sport had to move people and how he had seen this not long after his release in the Barcelona Olympics, which he especially remembered for one particular moment when he said he stood up and he felt the whole stadium reverberating,” said Pienaar, in whose mind Mandela was seeking to plant the first seeds of a political idea.
6 “Francois Pienaar was the captain of rugby and if I wanted to use rugby,
I had to work with him,” Mandela said. “I concentrated in our meeting on complimenting him for the role which he was playing and which he could play. And I briefed him on what I was doing about sports and why I was doing so. And I found him a highly intelligent person.” The time had come, as Mandela explained to his guest, to abandon the old perception of the Springbok rugby team as “enemies” and see them as compatriots and friends. His message was, “Let us use sport for the purpose of nation-building and promoting all the ideas which we think will lead to peace and stability in our country.”
Second read
• Reread the nonfiction text to answer these text-dependent questions.
• Write any additional questions you have about the text in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
5. Key Ideas and Details: Choose a quote from paragraph 1 that indicates Pienaar’s attitude toward his meeting with Mandela.
Possible quotes are: “I was incredibly tense ...” “I was really in awe of him.”
6. Key Ideas and Details: What is Mandela’s purpose in meeting with Pienaar, the captain of the rugby team? Choose a quote that answers the question and explain.
The following quotes explain Mandela’s purpose in meeting with Pienaar:
“He talked about the power that sport had to move people ...” “... the first seeds of a political idea.” “Let us use sport for the purpose of nation-building and promoting all the ideas which we think will lead to peace and stability in our country.”
Mandela sees that sports can be a unifying force, one that will help bring his country to a sense of nationhood.
7. Key Ideas and Details: What inference can you make about Nelson Mandela’s ability to understand and work with other people? Support your answer with details from paragraph 6.
Mandela was thoughtful about how to engage with people. He was respectful of their intelligence and point of view. He was considerate about bringing up new ideas. He took time with Pienaar to determine that Pienaar was “a highly intelligent person” before introducing the idea of using rugby “for the purpose of nation-building.”
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b 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 a a class
c 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.
Leveled Differentiated instruction
Some students may benefit from analyzing the key idea and details as they read in order to be sure they understand the nonfiction text.
Help students complete a
Key Idea and Details graphic organizer as they read to help them understand the text.
Guide students to write notes
about the key idea and details from the text using the sentence frames. The key idea of the text is
. One supporting detail is . Another supporting detail is .
Have students write
independently about the key idea and details from the text as they read.
TO Teacher
The paperback version of this book is Invictus (ISBN-10: 0143117157). This version was published as a tie-in for the film.
ScaFFOLDinG The TexT-DePenDenT QUeSTiOnS
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5. Key Ideas and Details (RI.7.3) Choose a quote from paragraph 1 that indicates Pienaar’s attitude toward his meeting with Mandela.
How did Pienaar feel as he waited to meet Mandela? Write down the exact words about how Pienaar felt. What is one word you could use to describe Pienaar at that moment?
6. Key Ideas and Details (RI.7.1) What is Mandela’s purpose in meeting with Pienaar, the captain of the rugby team? Choose a quote that answers the question and explain. Reread paragraph 4. Which phrases in the text that make his reasoning clear?
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