Leveled Readings / Cairo Declaration (1943)
Cairo Declaration (1943)
Cairo Declaration (1943)
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
“Japan shall be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific which she has seized or occupied since the beginning of the first World War in 1914…”
Adapted · about grade 4
Japan will lose the Pacific islands it took since 1914.
Adapted · about grade 7
Japan will be stripped of all the Pacific islands it has taken since World War I began in 1914.
Adapted · about grade 10
Japan shall be stripped of all the Pacific islands it has seized or occupied since the beginning of the First World War in 1914.
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