Leveled Readings / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Smallpox Vaccination in Turkey (1717)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Smallpox Vaccination in Turkey (1717)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter from Constantinople (1717)
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
“The small-pox, so fatal, and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless, by the invention of engrafting, which is the term they give it.”
Adapted · about grade 4
Montagu wrote that smallpox killed many people at home in England. In Turkey, she said, a method called engrafting made it harmless.
Adapted · about grade 7
Smallpox, so deadly and so common in England, is completely harmless here because of the practice of engrafting, as they call it.
Adapted · about grade 10
The smallpox, so deadly and so widespread among us, is here entirely harmless because of the invention of engrafting, which is the term they use for it.