Leveled Readings / Cortés: Second Letter to Charles V (1520)
Leveled reading · key passage
Cortés: Second Letter to Charles V (1520)
Hernán Cortés, Second Letter to Charles V (1520)
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
“This great city of Temixtitlan [Mexico] is situated in this salt lake…”
Adapted · about grade 4
This great city of Mexico is built in a salty lake.
Adapted · about grade 7
This great city of Tenochtitlan is built in a salt lake.
Adapted · about grade 10
This great city of Temixtitlan [Mexico] is situated in a salt lake.