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FicTion by Roland Smith FirsT-Person AccoUnT Living through a tornado video Surviving Hurricane SandynArrATive nonFicTion The invincible Lexi YoungbergPrimAry docUmenT Letter from a Civil War veteran inFoGrAPhic Prosthetics of the future ArGUmenT essAy Why failure is the secret of success sPeech by Helen Keller drAmA Teen freedom fighters of the civil rights movementinFormATionAL TeXT The Voting Rights Act neWs ArTicLe The Selma March, 1965Poem by William Ernest Henley
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4nArrATive nonFicTion Lexi Youngberg, Invincible The amazing true story of a teenager who lost her leg in a boating accident—and came back stronger than ever.
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9 PrimAry docUmenT Letter from a Civil War amputee What was it like to be an amputee in 1865?
10 inFoGrAPhic Prosthetics of Tomorrow Need a new heart? Just click print.
12FicTion “Wind” by Roland Smith It takes a storm to teach a girl about the power of community.
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17 FirsT-Person AccoUnT Surviving the Storm A young survivor shares insights after a powerful tornado strikes his town.
20drAmA Teen Freedom Fighters How a group of courageous teenagers risked their lives to march with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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25 neWsPAPer ArTicLe The News of the Week in Review: Strife See how one of the most violent episodes of the civil rights movement was reported in the news.
26 inFormATionAL TeXT The Voting Rights Act of 1965 One of the most transformative laws in American history
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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publications Data available ISBN 0-545-64504-2; ISBN 13: 978-0-545-64504-1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 08 16 15 14 13 Printed in the U.S.A. First printing 2013.
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As you read the stories and articles in this magazine, think about this question:
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28ArGUmenT essAy Are You a Loser? Why failure is the secret of success. Seriously.
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30 sPeech “Overcoming Obstacles” by Helen Keller Are you up against a terrifying challenge? A famous author and activist explains why you should be happy about it.
32 cLAssic Poem “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley After a bad day, you’ll want to have this poem nearby.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. –confucius
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W hat is the secret to
success? Loads of
money? Good luck?
Great teeth?
Nope. Wealth, good fortune, and
a nice smile can’t hurt, but many
experts agree that what successful
people have in common is this: They
were once horrific failures.
Take George Washington, who
lost two crucial battles and was
nearly fired before leading troops
to victory in the Revolutionary
War and becoming America’s first
President. Then there’s Steve Jobs,
who developed a slew of failed
products—and even got canned
from Apple—before returning to
revolutionize the world with the
iPod, iPhone, and iPad.
The list of famous failures is
seemingly endless: Pop icon Katy
Perry was dropped by three different
record labels; Nobel Prize winner
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Albert Einstein was expelled from
school; basketball star Jeremy Lin
spent his early career sitting idle on
the bench. Many of the world’s most
successful people were once losers,
and though they may have felt
humiliated, lost, and hopeless, they
eventually figured out how to move
forward. That’s the key to using
failure to your advantage: the ability
to dust yourself off and try again.
And again.
And again.
This trait is called resilience,
and it’s what can turn losers into
winners. In fact, experts say that in
terms of future success, resilience
can be more important than
intelligence or natural talent.
Utterly humiliatedSeventeen-year-old Miranda, of
Williamsburg, Virginia, still cringes
when recalling her early experiences
with the martial art tae kwon do,
which she started practicing at the
age of 7. For years, she lost every
competition she entered.
“It was devastating,” Miranda
remembers. Dejected, she decided
to quit, but at her father’s urging,
she reluctantly agreed to give it one
more try. She worked harder and
slowly began to improve, and though
she never became the champion
she’d dreamed of becoming, she
iF yoU Are, GreAT. BEcAuSE STuDIES SHOW THAT TO BE A SuccESS, fIRST yOu NEED TO KNOW HOW TO fAIL.
Are you a Loser?stuck with it long enough to earn her
black belt by age 12.
“I could easily have said, ‘I’m a
failure, I should never have tried,’”
Miranda recalls. “But I’m really
proud that I kept at it.”
The experience taught her that
she could fail—and feel utterly
humiliated and miserable—and still
go on to succeed.
Go Ahead, mess Up It’s no wonder many experts
believe that every kid should
experience failure. Yes, you read
that right: They WANT you to mess
up, because learning to cope with
failure will help you overcome larger
struggles later in life.
Miranda would agree. Today, she’s
finally winning medals—in Irish step
dancing. When she first started, she
was bad at that too. However, her
experience with tae kwon do had
built up her emotional strength, so
she no longer saw her mistakes as
failures, but as a part of the process
of achieving success.
Miranda is just one individual
in a long line of people to grasp
that concept. One of history’s
proudest failures was
inventor Thomas Edison.
According to legend, the
first 1,000 times that
Edison tried to create a
light bulb, his invention
didn’t work, so he kept
experimenting until he
finally found a way to build
one that did.
“I didn’t fail 1,000 times,”
Edison later said. “The light
bulb was invented with 1,000 steps!”
Good ol’ hard WorkSo what about you? Are you a
successful failure? Say you do poorly
on a math test. Do you think, “Oh,
my teacher just hates me” or “Oh,
I’m just terrible at math”? People
who don’t know how to fail well tend
to blame others for their mistakes
or give up without trying. They are
often insecure and might feel as if
the whole world is against them.
After all, it takes a lot of confidence
to admit your own shortcomings.
Part of being successful means
having the courage to take a good,
hard look at yourself and identify
ways to do better next time. Well,
that and a bit of patience; sometimes
it takes a while to get where you
want to go. Just look at basketball’s
breakout star Jeremy Lin. For years,
he was overlooked by coaches.
Once, he was even called “the
weakest player on the team,” but
when he finally got a chance to hit
the court for the New York Knicks,
he surprised everyone. He was
fantastic, unstoppable, and now he’s
one of the most promising young
athletes in pro basketball.
How did he do it?
Lin spent hundreds of hours with
coaches and trainers, arriving at
practice hours before his teammates
to do extra drills. In other words, he
relied on good, old-fashioned hard
work and perseverance.
So next time you fail a test, strike
out at bat, or sing off-key, cheer up.
With the right attitude, you could be
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DUMPED!KATy Perry
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“Finding a Joy in Overcoming Obstacles”By Helen Keller
I can remember the time before I learned to speak—how
my thoughts used to beat against my fingertips like little birds
striving to gain their freedom. Of course, it was not easy at
first. . . . One can never consent to creep when one feels an
impulse to soar. There were so many difficulties along the way,
so many discouragements; but I kept on trying, knowing that
patience and perseverance would win in the end.
And while I worked, I dreamed dreams, the pleasantest of
which was of the time when I should talk like other people,
and the thought of the pleasure it would give my mother to
hear my voice. . . . So I want to say to those who are trying
to learn to speak and those who are teaching them: Be of good
cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that
may come tomorrow. You will succeed if you persevere, and
you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles—a delight in climbing
rugged paths, which you would perhaps never know if you did
not sometimes slip backward. Remember,
no effort that we make to attain
something beautiful is ever
lost. Sometime, somewhere,
somehow we shall find that
which we seek.
—Helen Keller to the American
Association to Promote the
Teaching of Speech to the Deaf,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
July 8, 1896
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reading & reflectingRespond to the questions below using text evidence from the essay “Are You a
Loser?” and the speech “Finding a Joy in Overcoming Obstacles.” Go back and reread sections as necessary. Continue on a separate sheet of paper if you need more room.
Do you think it’s important to experience failure? Defend your claim with examples from “Are You a Loser?”, Helen Keller’s speech, and your own life.
WriTe An ArGUmenT essAy
1 Summarize the central idea of each text.
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2 What character trait do both Helen Keller and the people in “Are You a Loser?” have in common? Explain.
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3Helen Keller said, “No effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.” What did she mean? Find an example
from “Are You a Loser?” and explain how it supports Keller’s idea.
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InvictusOut of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
—William Ernest Henley
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) wrote “Invictus” while hospitalized after treatment to save his right leg; his left foot had already been amputated because of disease. How does the poem reflect his attitude toward recovery?
Explain the meaning of the final two lines of “Invictus.” What other lines in the poem express the same idea?
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