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1、Visit www.readinga- for thousands of books and materials.Barack ObamaA Reading AZ Level S Leveled BookWord Count:1,359www.readinga-Barack ObamaWritten by R.K.BurriceLEVELED BOOK SKOSBarack ObamaLevel S Leveled Book Learning AZWritten by R.K.BurriceEdited by Katherine Burdickand Racheal Rice All righ

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4、ck ObamaWritten by R.K.Burricewww.readinga-CorrelationLEVEL SO3434Fountas&PinnellReading RecoveryDRABarack Obama Level S34 4IntroductionEvery child dreams about growing up.Some children know what they want to be as adults.They may want to be artists or musicians,or doctors or lawyers.Others have no

5、idea what they want to be.Some do not find a direction for their life until they are adults.This is the story of just such a child.Things happened in his life that caused him to doubt himself and made him feel as though he did not fit in.He was bothered by many things that happened around him.Over t

6、ime,those things helped him discover his purpose in life.He developed a strong desire to change the practices that had made him feel like an outsider.That desire led him to become president of the United States of America.Barack Obama,future presidentTable of ContentsIntroduction.4Growing Up.5Findin

7、g His Way.9Becoming a Politician.14Conclusion .18Glossary.19Index .20Young Barry with his high school basketball teamBarack Obama Level S56Growing UpBarack Obama Jr.called Barry during his childhoodwas born in 1961 in Hawaii.His mother,Ann Dunham,was from the state of Kansas.His father,Barack Obama

8、Sr.,was from the country of Kenya,in eastern Africa.His parents met and married while they were students at the University of Hawaii.The marriage did not last.By the time Barry turned four,his parents had divorced and his father had moved back to Kenya.Young Barry with his mother,AnnBarrys mother ma

9、rried a man from Indonesia when Barry was six.The family left Hawaii and moved to Indonesia,where his half-sister was born.Barry attended school in Indonesia for four years.He learned the language and customs of his new country.He also saw what it meant to be very poor.Many Indonesian families strug

10、gled each day just to have enough food to eat.Barry sometimes felt strange being so far from Hawaii.He felt he was not part of the community where he now lived.He wondered who he was and where he belonged in the world.Having parents of different races and from different continents caused him to wond

11、er and question even more.HawaiiPACIFIC OCEANIndonesiaKenyaATLANTIC OCEANKansasBarrys BeginningsBarack Obama Level S78While the family lived in Indonesia,Barrys mother began teaching him about race and ethnicity.He learned about slavery and about the civil rights movement in the United States.Ann al

12、so taught him about important African Americans in politics,history,music,culture,and sports who helped to improve the world.She wanted Barry to be proud of his racial heritage.But Barry was confused.Although his mother taught him about African American leaders,he also learned about people who were

13、ashamed of the color of their skin.He also learned about people who thought others were wrong or ignorant just because of their skin color or religion.Barry began to see that race and ethnicity were complicated issues.How could people feel pride when they were being judged on the very things they we

14、re proud of?U.S.civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.inspired Barry.After four years in Indonesia,Barrys mother thought that he could receive a better education back in the United States.So in 1971,when he was ten,she sent Barry back to Hawaii to attend school and to live with his grandparents.

15、In Hawaii,Barry again felt like an outsider.He was one of only two African American students in his class.Some of his classmates made fun of his unusual name.He gained strength from reading about other people who felt like outsiders but who had successfully found their way in the world.He was inspir

16、ed by Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.and other leaders who believed in peaceful social change.Do You Know?The year Barry returned to Hawaii,his father came from Kenya for a month.That visit was the last time Barry saw his father,who was killed in a car accident in 1982.His mother died of cancer in 1995.Ba

17、rrys grandparents were proud when he graduated from high school.Barack Obama Level S910Finding His WayAfter he graduated from high school in Hawaii,Barry went to college in Los Angeles.During that time,he and other students spoke out against South Africas white government,which favored terrible trea

18、tment of black people.Barry began to embrace his African heritage and started using his Kenyan name,Barack,which means“blessed.”He started to understand that he didnt have to choose between his white and black backgroundshe was both.Barack wanted to learn how laws and government worked.He wanted to

19、help change some of the injustices he saw.In 1981,he transferred to Columbia University in New York City.He graduated in 1983 with a degree in political science.Barack as a Columbia studentBy the time Barack finished college,he knew he wanted to help people in communities.He wanted to involve people

20、 in creating better lives for themselves.He also wanted to see local laws changed so people would receive fair treatment.He found a job and moved to Chicago in 1985.He became the director of an organization that helped people in poor neighborhoods find jobs and improve their lives.Do You Know?Before

21、 Barack moved to Chicago,he held a job with a big business for a short time.He started earning good money,but he was not happy.He hungered to be involved in something bigger than his own life.He quit his job and found one where he could help people.Later he said,“Theres nothing wrong with making mon

22、ey,but focusing your life just on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition.”A Chicago neighborhood that Barack helpedBarack Obama Level S1112Baracks work in Chicago fed his passion for helping poor people.But through his work,he saw that to make lasting changes,he would need to learn how to change

23、laws.He believed that by changing unfair laws,communities could improve the lives of their people.Barack entered Harvard Law School,near Boston,in 1988.During his time there,he became the first African American to be in charge of a respected magazine called the Harvard Law Review.He earned a law deg

24、ree in 1991 and graduated with honors.Do You Know?Before entering law school in 1988,Barack traveled to Kenya for the first time.He met many relatives there,including his grandmother.Barack with Mama Sara Obama,his Kenyan grandmotherBarack helped set up a job-training program for African Americans w

25、ho had lost their jobs when factories closed.He also helped call attention to a dangerous material called asbestos that was in the walls of buildings where many poor people lived.His organization started a tutoring program to help young people who wanted to go to college.Barack also managed a progra

26、m to sign up new voters.He encouraged people to get involved in politics so that fairer laws could be passed.Chicago residents sign up to vote.Barack Obama Level S1314After finishing law school,Barack moved back to Chicago and worked for a law company for the summer.A female lawyer named Michelle Ro

27、binson advised him,and they became friends.Barack invited Michelle along when he went to visit some of the people and communities he had helped in the 1980s.Michelle was deeply moved by Baracks vision of a better world.She saw how much the people he had worked with respected him.Barack and Michelle

28、married in 1992.Barack and Michelle Obama with their daughters,Malia (mah-LEE-uh),6,right,and Sasha,3,in 2004Becoming a PoliticianBarack had become a lawyer to help people.But he soon saw that helping people as a lawyer was a very slow process.He decided that entering politics and changing laws woul

29、d be an even faster way to help.In 1996,he ran for and won a seat in the Illinois state senate.As a state senator,he helped change laws so poor working families could pay lower taxes.He also helped change laws so children would have better education and health care.Barack and Michelle Obama with dau

30、ghters Malia and Sasha campaigned in 2004 for Barack to be a U.S.Senator.Barack Obama Level S1516Barack ran for the United States Senate in 2004.He was asked to speak at an important meeting of the Democratic Party.He gave a hopeful speech about all Americans working together to help the United Stat

31、es become an even greater country.The speech was a big success,and Baracks words inspired many people.He easily won a seat in the U.S.Senate later that year.Because of the speech,many people encouraged Barack to run for presidentthe biggest job in the United Statesin 2008.Barack spoke during the 200

32、4 Democratic National Convention.“Tonight is a particular honor for me because,lets face it,my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely.My father was a foreign student,born and raised in a small village in Kenya.He grew up herding goats,went to school in a tin-roof shack.My mother was born in a tow

33、n on the other side of the world,in Kansas.“My parents shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation.They would give me an African name,Barack,or”blessed,”believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.They imagined me going to the best schools in the land,even

34、 though they werent rich,because in a generous America you dont have to be rich to achieve your potential.“I stand here today,grateful for the diversity of my heritage,aware that my parents dreams live on in my two precious daughters.I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American

35、story and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.”Barack Obama,Democratic National Convention,July 27,2004Barack Obama Level S1718Barack had to be convinced that being president was the best thing for him and his family.He thought that he did not have enough experience as a U.S.

36、senator.Barack knew that,because he was African American,running for president could be dangerous.He knew that just running for president would change his and his familys lives forever.He could no longer take a walk or get his hair cut without drawing a crowd.While he thought about whether or not to

37、 run for president,Baracks reputation grew.The two books he had written inspired many people to write to him and encourage him.He continued to give speeches and talk to people.Many more people became inspired by his words,his clear thinking,his respect for all people,and his belief in peaceful solut

38、ions to big problems.Baracks two books are best sellers.ConclusionBarack began his job as president on January 20,2009.He,his wife Michelle,and their two young daughters moved into the White House in Washington,D.C.In October 2009,President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of h

39、is efforts to make the world a better and more peaceful place.“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.We are the ones weve been waiting for.We are the change that we seek.”Barack ObamaBarack Obama spoke to a huge crowd after being elected president on November 4,200

40、8.Barack Obama Level S1920Glossaryashamed(adj.)embarrassed(p.7)civil rights(n.)legal,social,and economic rights that guarantee freedom and equality for all citizens(p.7)continents(n.)one of the main landmasses on Earth,including Africa,South America,Asia,Europe,North America,Australia,and Antarctica

41、(p.6)degree(n.)a title given to a student by a college or university after completing a program of study(p.9)ethnicity(n.)the state of belonging to a group of people with a common cultural heritage or nationality distinguished by customs,characteristics,language,and common history(p.7)heritage(n.)a

42、way of life,tradition,or characteristic that is passed down from generation to generation(p.7)honors(n.)awards for outstanding achievement(p.12)injustices(n.)the unfair treatment of a person or group of people(p.9)inspired(v.)prompted to be brave or creative (p.8)local(adj.)limited to a specific pla

43、ce(p.10)moved(v.)caused to have strong feelings(p.13)passion(n.)intense enthusiasm(p.12)races(n.)populations of humans as defined by skin color and features or by genetics(p.6)reputation(n.)the general way that a person or thing is thought of by others(p.17)slavery(n.)the state or condition of being

44、 a slave,or the property of another person(p.7)IndexChicago,10,12,13Columbia University,9Democratic Party,15Dunham,Ann,58Harvard Law School,12Hawaii,5,6,8,9Illinois state senate,14Indonesia,68Kenya(n),5,8,9,12,16King,Dr.Martin Luther Jr.,7,8Obama,Barack Sr.,5,8Obama,Michelle Robinson,13,14,18president,4,15,17,18race,6,7U.S.Senate,15