Leveled Readings / Mary Antin: A Little Jewish Girl in the Russian Pale (1890)
Leveled reading · key passage
Mary Antin: A Little Jewish Girl in the Russian Pale (1890)
Mary Antin (1890)
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
“A Jew could make the circle of the Pale only to find the same conditions as at home.”
Adapted · about grade 4
A Jewish person could travel all around the Pale and find the same hard life everywhere.
Adapted · about grade 7
A Jew could travel all around the Pale and find the same conditions as at home.
Adapted · about grade 10
A Jew could travel the whole circuit of the Pale only to find the same conditions as at home.