Leveled Readings / A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft)
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
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
“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners, time to restore to them their lost dignity, and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world.”
Adapted · about grade 4
Wollstonecraft said it was time to change how women were treated and taught. She wanted women to get back their respect and help improve the world by improving themselves.
Adapted · about grade 7
It is time for a revolution in women's manners, Wollstonecraft wrote: time to give back their lost dignity and let them, as part of humankind, work to reform the world by reforming themselves.
Adapted · about grade 10
It is time to bring about a revolution in female manners, time to restore their lost dignity, and to make them, as part of the human species, work by reforming themselves to reform the world.