Leveled Readings / Magna Carta
Magna Carta
Magna Carta (1215)
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
“No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.”
Adapted · about grade 4
The king cannot jail or punish a free man unless a fair court or the law of the land says so.
Adapted · about grade 7
No free man can be arrested, jailed, have his land taken, be exiled, or be harmed, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land.
Adapted · about grade 10
No free man shall be seized, imprisoned, stripped of his property, exiled, or otherwise ruined, nor will the king proceed against him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or the law of the land.
Used in: Where do our rights come from?