5th

The Emperors of Chocolate

By: Joel Glenn Brenner

Comments:

1. Hershey basically made a whole town. Making chocolate is a good business in making money.

2. Hershey knew the milk was spoiling and as a cheap man he used it to make chocolate. The chocolates came out sour.

3. To make a certain chocolate you need to produce it in the right techniques and machines.

4. The town was not a good idea everyone knew each other it was like living in a fish bowl. It's a big place there people could swim in it filled with chocolate.

5. Working to provide chocolate requires a lot of work. But the most hardest work in the factory was in the roasting room it is sweaty, smelly and back breaking.

Questions:

1. Do you really have to have certain machines so the chocolate could come out with a certain flavor?

2. How come you can't make a chocolate with just your hands and the oven?

3. How is it that you have to have the right mix of beans to make chocolate?

4. Why did they use chocolate for tobacco?

Vocabulary:

1. Porticoed: a covered walkway, often leading to the main entrance of a building, that consists of a roof supported by pillars pg. 106

2. Benevolence: performing good or charitable acts and not seeking to make a profit pg. 114

3. Heirs: somebody who holds the right to receive a property, position, or title of somebody else when that person dies pg. 117

Literary Terms:

1. " And we protected that like it was gold." Simile pg. 113

2. " For most of the towns youth, growing up in Hershey was like living one long, sweet fantasy." Simile pg. 116

Overview Sentence:

1. Hershey made a town for people to live there basically free. They're the workers who work in his factory live in a fish bowl.

4th

The Emperors of Chocolate
By: Joel Glenn Brenner

Comments:

1. Milk and chocolate are natural enemies: milk is 89 percent water, chocolate 80 percent fat. But they blend together making a delicious milk chocolate flavor.

2. Even the Aztecs and Christopher Columbus had chocolate back then. Chocolate has been eaten and invented even back then.

3. Chocolate is a potion of love between women and men. It was believed to cure love.

4. Chocolates have chemicals that we human also have. That is why chocolate is good for people.

5. It helps us girls when we have our period for the blood flow. I do always crave for chocolate.

Questions:

1. How was chocolate a fever reducer?

2. Is chocolate dangerous for your health since it has a chemical like the one in marijuana?

3. Chocolate really came from cocoa beans?

4. What is bad about chocolate other than giving you acne?

Vocabulary:

1. Elixir: a sweetened solution of a drug in alcohol and water pg. 94

2. Apothecary: occupations pg. 100

3. Velvety: soft and smooth in a way that suggests the feel of velvet pg. 101

Literary Terms:

1. " But milk chocolate like gold possesses special, some say supernatural, powers." Simile pg. 91

2. " They go mad with joy when the substance is both sweet and fatty." Personification pg. 97

Overview Sentence:

1. The way chocolate was first made and discovered in this world also if it was good or bad for you.

3rd

The Emperors of Chocolate

By: Joel Glenn Brenner

Comments:

1. You have to know about chemist to make chocolate.

2. Chocolate really made people rich and successful in life.

3. Milton Hershey thought that by getting successful their parents will once unit again.

4. To make certain kinds of chocolate you need specific and different machines.

5. Milton sold his factory to his rival. That was really a dumb choice of him to do that since he worked hard for his factory.

Questions:

1. How did they come up with the taste of each candy?

2. What is the first step you take in making chocolate?

3. What is the main ingredient in making chocolate?

4. Why does he want to build a town for people and make it free for them?

Vocabulary:

1. Demure: looking or behaving in a modest manner, with reserve or seriousness pg. 73

2. Tedious: boring because of being long, monotonous, or repetitive pg. 83

3. Astute: shrewd and discerning, especially where personal benefit is to be derived pg. 88

Literary Terms:

1. "... he could easily have been mistaken for a more unsavory, snake-oil type for he had that ability to steal you blind before you knew you'd been robbed." Metaphor pg. 73

2. " The smell of roasting cocoa beans wafting from Lehman's rotating ovens, like the smell of fresh-baked brownies.." Simile pg. 85

Overview Sentence:

1. Milton Hershey worked hard to make his chocolate factory. He invented certain chocolates too.

2nd

The Emperors of Chocolate

By: Joel Glenn Brenner

Comments:

1. The family Mars even though they have a lot of money they live a good middle class life.

2. Their father never gave them a piece of candy they needed to save it.

3. M&M's were made coated with a hard shell so it won't melt in your hands or when it's sold to another country it'll get their unmelted.

4. People sended spies to the companies to steal the way a special thing was made.

5. In order to make sure a chocolate will sell it has to be tested by other people.

Questions:

1. Will Mars and Hershey ever join together?

2. Is there other parts in making chocolate if you have the ingreidents already?

3. Why do people send spies to companies?

4. Was Mars and Hersheys rivarly a shape in industry?

Vocabualry:

1. Scrutiny: close, careful, and thorough examination or inspection pg. 36

2. Sumptuous: magnificent or grand in appearance pg. 45

3. Unveiled: to remove a veil or other covering from something, especially somebody's face or a plaque, monument, or artwork during a formal ceremony pg. 58

Literary Terms:

1. " Jhon is wearing a blue shirt, striped tie, dark slacks and thick soled shoes that lost their polish long ago." Direct Characterization pg. 33

2. " I wasn't at Yale to be pampered, like some other boys." Simile pg. 56

Overview Sentence:

1. It was talking about how Mars started working out with chocolate and their father never let them eat a piece.

1st

The Emperors of Chocolate

By: Joel Glenn Brenner

Comments:

1. The company Mars has a chance in not distributing it's products that could cost Davies his job.

2. They became successful the only company selling candy bars to military troops and in the Saudi desert. Hershey was it's enemy they sold more chocolate bars.

3. Mars and Hershey are in war, to prove their chocolate is better.

4. Candy is magical and is more than just a treat is a experience.

5. The way they started making chocolate was with a copper kettle, a bag of sugar and a dream.

Questions:

1. Isn't all chocolate from the same company?

2. What did happen to Willy Wonka?

3. Who was the first person to invent chocolate?

4. Why can't all companies work together?

Vocabulary:

1. Synonymous: meaning the same, or almost the same, as another word in the same language, or being an alternative name for somebody or something pg. 10

2. Bifocaled: describes lenses with sections that have different focal lengths, especially in glasses for near and distant vision pg. 20

3. Nostalgic: a mixed feeling of happiness, sadness, and longing when recalling a person, place, or event from the past, or the past in general pg. 25

Literary Terms:

1. "The thought made him cringe, like he'd eaten a piece of sour candy." Simile pg. 4

2. "... it rolled off the tongue with an extra "sh" " Hershey," like they were chocking on it." Simile pg. 17

Overview Sentence:

1. These two companies Mars and Hershey are rivalry in making what today everybody loves chocolate.