Leveled Readings / Fulcher (Fulk) of Chartres: The Capture of Jerusalem, 1099
Fulcher (Fulk) of Chartres: The Capture of Jerusalem, 1099
Fulcher of Chartres, eyewitness chronicle (1099)
These are adaptations, not the original. The original wording is always shown first. Each adapted version restates the same passage at about a grade 4, grade 7, or grade 10 reading level without adding or removing ideas. Quote the original in student writing.
Original wording
“Indeed, if you had been there you would have seen our feet colored to our ankles with the blood of the slain.”
Adapted · about grade 4
The writer said the fighting was so bloody that blood reached their ankles.
Adapted · about grade 7
If you had been there, you would have seen our feet stained to the ankles with the blood of the dead.
Adapted · about grade 10
Had you been there, you would have seen our feet stained to the ankles with the blood of the slain.
Used in: How did people on different sides experience the Crusades?