Leveled Readings / Renan: What Is a Nation? (1882)
Renan: What Is a Nation? (1882)
Ernest Renan, What Is a Nation? (1882)
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
“Man is not a slave to his race, nor to his language, nor to his religion, nor to the course of the rivers, nor to the direction of the mountain ranges.”
Adapted · about grade 4
A person is not controlled by race, language, religion, rivers, or mountains.
Adapted · about grade 7
People are not slaves to their race, language, religion, rivers, or mountain ranges.
Adapted · about grade 10
Man is not a slave to his race, his language, his religion, the course of rivers, or the direction of mountain ranges.
Used in: What makes a nation?