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Teaching Excerpt: An Ordinary Man

Excerpt: An Ordinary Man

Paul Rusesabagina
Introduction from AN ORDINARY MAN: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Paul Rusesabagina with Tom Zoellner, copyright © 2006 by Paul Rusesabagina. Used with permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All ri

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

How important are the words we speak?
STANDARDS:
RI.2 - Main Ideas, RI.3 - People & Events, RI.4 - Key Terms & Tone

DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) LEVELS:

2,3
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