Leveled Readings / Madero: Plan of San Luis Potosí (1910)
Madero: Plan of San Luis Potosí (1910)
Francisco Madero, Plan of San Luis Potosí (1910)
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
“In exchange for that tyranny we are offered peace, but peace full of shame for the Mexican nation, because its basis is not law, but force…”
Adapted · about grade 4
We are offered peace in return for cruel rule. But that peace is shameful, because it rests on force, not law.
Adapted · about grade 7
In exchange for tyranny we are offered peace, a shameful peace, because it is based on force, not law.
Adapted · about grade 10
In exchange for that tyranny we are offered peace, but a peace full of shame for Mexico, because its basis is not law but force.