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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 my Notes 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?
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?
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?
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.
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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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