The Long Walk to Freedom Think #1 Use details from the first paragraph to explain the social and political changes that have taken place in South Africa since the 1990s.

South Africa has had a long and challenging history. Things started to change both politically and socially in the 1990's. This is because (author, year, paragraph #). There are several examples of these changes. One example of social change has been (author, year, paragraph #). Another example of social change has been seen in (author, year, paragraph #). Social change has not been the only area to see a difference as the politics in South Afica also changed. One example of this is (author, year, paragraph #). A second political change has been (author, year, paragraph #). Today there are still issues in South Africa, but they have made great strides forward since the 1990's.

Think #2 Write two or three sentences explaining Mandela’s point of view about courage and his reaction to fear. Support your answer with evidence from paragraph 4.

Nelson Mandela had a lot of time to collect his thoughts while he was wrongly imprisoned in South Africa. In the excerpt from A Long Walk Home, Mandela shares his views on courage and fear. He writes that courage is (author, year, paragraph). He best explains it as (author, year, paragraph). Mandela also writes about fear. He say, " (author, year, paragraph)".

Think #3 Refer to multiple details to explain Mandela’s view of a person’s “twin obligations” - both from ideas that are directly stated in paragraph 7 and from ideas you have inferred from clues in the text.

In the excerpt by Nelson Mandela he wrote about having "twin obligations". The reader can infer this to mean based on the evidence from context clues that discusses (author, year, paragraph #). Mandela states the following about twin obligations, "" (author, year, paragraph #).

Think #4 Use context clues and word relationships to determine the meaning of the word resiliency as it is used in paragraph 4 of Long Walk to Freedom. Write your definition of resiliency and tell how you determined its meaning.

Based on the text and context clues, the definition of resiliency means (author, year, paragraph #). The context clues in the text that support this definition are, " (author, year, paragraph #)".

Think #5 By recalling that the Latin prefix trans- means “across” or “to change completely” and that the suffixation means “act or process,” use the context clues provided in paragraph 5 to determine the meaning of transformation. Write your definition of transformation here and tell how you figured out its meaning.

From the root meaning of "trans" (across or to change completely) and the suffix "ation" meaning act of process the word transformation in paragraph 5 is defined as . The context clues in the text support the definition where it states, " (author, year, paragraph)".