Leveled Readings / Jacques Cartier: Raising the Cross at Gaspé, First Voyage (1534)
Jacques Cartier: Raising the Cross at Gaspé, First Voyage (1534)
Account of Jacques Cartier’s first voyage (1534)
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
“…then showed us the country all about us, as if he had wished to say that all the country was his, and that we should not plant the said cross without his leave.”
Adapted · about grade 4
The local leader pointed to all the land around them. He seemed to say the land was his, and the French should not put up the cross without asking him.
Adapted · about grade 7
The leader pointed to the land all around, as if to say that all the country was his and that the French should not set up the cross without his permission.
Adapted · about grade 10
He then showed us the country all around us, as if he wished to say that all the country was his and that we should not plant the cross without his permission.
Used in: Why did people explore, and what did their voyages bring?