This passage tells about heroic people who have helped change the world.
Benito Juárez became the first native Indian president of Mexico, and made Mexico a fairer, more modern country.
During the CRIMEAN WAR, Florence Nightingale went to Turkey with nurses from her hospital and helped many sick and wounded soldiers.
Mohandas Gandhi’s ideas about nonviolent protest have
influenced many around the world.
Although she was blind and deaf, Helen Keller learned to communicate.
American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt had polio, but helped his country during the Great Depression and World War II.
Doctors Without Borders is a volunteer organization that won the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to help victims of war, disease, and natural disasters.
Key Words:
• assassinated: murdered (an important
person)
• extraordinary: very unusual and special
• founders: people who start a business, school, and so on
• resistance: refusal to accept new ideas or change
• superintendent: someone who runs the schools in a district or runs any large group
• tolerance: a willingness to let people do, say, and believe what they want
Academic Words
- achieve = succeed in doing or getting
something as a result of your actions
- alter = change in some way
- impact = the effect that something or
someone has on someone or something
- role = the position, job, or function someone or something has in a particular situation or activity
Highlighted Words:
social justice, fairness for all people
colonizing, controlling a country and sending your own people
to live there
reforms, changes that improve a system
wealthy, very rich
apartheid, a system in which different races
in a country are separated
inspired, caused; influenced people to
express interest in
economic, relating to business, industry, and managing money
polio, an infectious disease of the nerves in the spine that can
cause paralysis
impaired, damaged, or less strong, or less good
frustrated, upset because you can’t do something
adversity, difficulties or problems
borders, official lines that separate two countries
administrators, people who manage businesses
or organizations
nutrition, food for good health and growth
sanitation, hygiene; cleanliness
atrocities, extremely violent actions
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