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aCTIvITy 3.21
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Follow the Leader
my Notes
Second read
• Reread the speech 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: Note the imagery of the last three paragraphs. Choose one of the images and explain why Mandela included it in his speech.
Working from the Text
2. Quickwrite: What are some of the character traits that great leaders have in common? Who are some historical or modern figures that you consider to be great leaders?
3. Discussion: What made Nelson Mandela a great leader?
4. As you explore speeches by other great leaders, complete the following graphic organizer to evaluate the character revealed by their words. Think of their potential as a possible subject for your biographical presentation.
Name of Speaker and Quote from Speech
Character Traits revealed by Speaker’s Words
Why I Might Be Interested in researching This Speaker
5. Meet with your research group or partner and compare notes to generate a list of potential subjects for your biographical presentation and draft an initial set of research questions. As you consider subjects from your independent reading and begin asking questions, draw on the information you have learned in this unit about Nelson Mandela’s leadership. Then select a leader whose choices also had positive consequences for society.
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