Leveled Readings / Engels: Industrial Manchester (1844)
Engels: Industrial Manchester (1844)
Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844), on Manchester
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
“Below Ducie Bridge the only entrance to most of the houses is by means of narrow, dirty stairs and over heaps of refuse and filth.”
Adapted · about grade 4
Under the bridge, people got into their houses by narrow, dirty stairs over piles of trash.
Adapted · about grade 7
Below Ducie Bridge, the only way into most houses is up narrow, dirty stairs and over heaps of garbage and filth.
Adapted · about grade 10
Below Ducie Bridge the only entrance to most houses is by narrow, dirty stairs and over heaps of refuse and filth.