Leveled Readings / Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (1750)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (1750)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (1750)
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
“…our minds have been corrupted in proportion as the arts and sciences have improved.”
Adapted · about grade 4
Rousseau said that as arts and sciences got better, people's minds and morals got worse.
Adapted · about grade 7
Rousseau argued that people's minds have become more corrupted as the arts and sciences have advanced.
Adapted · about grade 10
Our minds have been corrupted in proportion as the arts and sciences have improved.