Leveled Readings / Churchill: Their Finest Hour (1940)
Churchill: Their Finest Hour (1940)
Winston Churchill (June 18, 1940)
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
“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'…”
Adapted · about grade 4
Let us do our duty, so that in a thousand years people will say: 'This was their finest hour.'
Adapted · about grade 7
Let us brace ourselves to our duties so that, if the British Empire lasts a thousand years, people will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'
Adapted · about grade 10
Let us brace ourselves to our duties and so conduct ourselves that, if the British Empire and Commonwealth last a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'