Leveled Readings / Wilson's Fourteen Points
Wilson's Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points (1918), Point I
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
“Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind…”
Adapted · about grade 4
Peace deals should be made out in the open. There should be no secret deals between countries.
Adapted · about grade 7
Peace agreements should be made openly, and afterward nations should make no secret agreements.
Adapted · about grade 10
Peace treaties should be negotiated openly, and afterward there should be no private international agreements of any kind.