The Emperors of Chocolate
By: Joel Glenn Brenner
Comments:
1. Milk in the chocolate does not raise any healthy persons blood cholesterol level.
2. Chocolate contains phenol, an antioxidant found in red wine which reduces the level of heart attacks.
3. Chocolate doesn't get you fat or give you acne.
4. Hershey company was getting better since Milton Hershey died.
5. People started consuming half a pound of chocolate a day. They must be so fat and bad of health.
Questions:
1. Does chocolate help you lose weight?
2. How does a snicker bar sustain you for a whole day?
3. How can a company lose everything if they're still making chocolate?
4. How is it that all chocolate are different?
Vocabulary:
1. Rhetorical: relating to the skill of using language effectively and persuasively pg. 257
2. Stolid: solemn, unemotional, and not easily excited or upset pg. 261
3. Enticed: to make a person or animal do something by offering something desirable pg. 270
Literary Terms:
1. " With his ready smile and gregarious charm it was easy for the children to forget that he was a big shot at the company, and they treated him like one of their own." Simile pg. 259
2. " When you walked through that factory your mouth would start to water, remembered shearer." Flashback pg. 266
Overview Sentence:
1. Mars brothers have grown the company through global expansion, taking M&Ms, Snickers, and Milky Way around the world.
