Cory Booker

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/cory-booker

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was Cory Booker born?April 27, 1969
2. Where was Cory Booker born?Washington, D.C
3. What is the education?Stanford University (BA, MA), Queen's College, Oxford (Rhodes Scholar), Yale Law School
4. What did Cory Booker do to help people when he was a young politician?He lived in a tent and did a 10‑day hunger strike to bring attention to city problems.
5. How did Cory Booker help Newark become a better city?He doubled affordable housing and cut the city’s budget deficit from $180 million to $73 million.

Civil Disobedience: The active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of governments.
Rhodes Scholarship: A highly competitive international scholarship for postgraduate study at the University of Oxford.
Filibustering: A tactic in legislative bodies where a minority of members attempts to delay or block a vote on a proposal.
Attorney General: The chief legal officer of a country or state, responsible for advising the government on legal matters.