Inside Language, Literacy, and Content [Level C]

Connect Reading and Writing

Critical Thinking

1. SUM IT UP Make an outline to record the ideas in each section of the text. Use your outline to sum up the selection.
Outline
- I. A Plan for Freedom
  - A.
  - B.
- II.
  - A.
2. Explain What can people do if the leaders or laws of their country are unjust? Support your ideas with examples from the text.
3. Infer The U.S. government is based on the Constitution. Why do you think this document has worked so well for more than 200 years?
4. Analyze Review your Anticipation Guide on page 396. Do you want to change your opinions? Discuss in a group.

Reading Fluency

Phrasing Read the passage on page 585 to a partner. Assess your fluency.

1. I read
- a. great
- b. OK
- c. not very well
2. What I did best in my reading was _____.

Reading Strategy

Vocabulary Review

Oral Review Read the paragraph aloud. Add the vocabulary words.

Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., believed that the people who ran their _____ had made rules, or _____, that failed to protect everyone. Their countries’ political _____, or ways of doing things, needed to change. Gandhi and King took _____ for forcing change. They spoke in _____, not just in private, about unjust conditions and became great _____ for people. They organized peaceful marches and _____ to help create change. In the _____ of many people, Gandhi and King are heroes of freedom.

Written Review Think of a responsibility that someone has in a free country. Write a paragraph about it. Use at least five vocabulary words.

Write About the Guiding Question

Explore the Struggle for Freedom

Why is freedom worth fighting for? Reread the selection and write your opinion about the worth of freedom. Use evidence from the text.