2nd

Dr. Tatiana's sex advice to all creations
By: Olivia Judson

Comments:

1. Males carry 180 million sperm for one little egg.

2. Sperm can be digested, ejected, or rounded up and removed.

3. Males who boast big sperm fertilize more eggs and males with small sperm are puny.

4. Pollen in trees is like sperm in animals.

5. In slugs the penis might get stuck and broken apart. So if that happens they act like females.

Questions:

1. Why do they call female sluts?

2. Do they really have "The Giant sperm Hall of Fame?"

3. How do males reproduce sperm?

4. How can some males/females take so much sex?

Vocabulary:

1. Odyssey: a long series of wanderings or adventures, esp. when filled with notable experiences, hardships, etc. pg. 24

2. Sterile: incapable of producing offspring; not producing offspring pg. 33

3. Sperm: a male reproductive cell; spermatozoon pg. 40

Literary Terms:

1. "...if a man were to make a sperm on your scale, it would be as long as a blue whale." Simile pg. 26

2. "The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable."

Metaphor pg. 39

Overview Sentence:

1. It's not easy being a male, to reproduce a lot of sperm.

1st post

Dr. Tatiana's sex advice to all creations

By: Olivia Judson

Comments:

1. The male in the relationship is always following the female. They don't trust the females.

2. The species alfalfa leaf-cutter bee, the females only mate once.

3. In making love the penis is an important tool.

4. Females look in males for a big penis; not no small one.

5. As males evolve to control; females evolve to resist.

Questions:

1. How can females hold sperm for many years?

2. Even in other species males are unfaithful to the females?

3. Why are goldfishes penis covered with enormous spines?

4. How do males get orgasm?

Vocabulary:

1. Gallivanting: To roam about in search of pleasure or amusement pg. 10

2. Promiscuity: an indiscriminate mixture pg. 17

3. Cad: an ill-bred man, esp. one who behaves in a dishonorable or irresponsible way toward women pg. 20

Literary Terms:

1. "The female slippery dick- a pale fish that lives on coral reefs..." Direct Characterization pg. 13

2. "... some glorious gymnastic flips to dislodge plugs left by previous lovers, making like a toilet plunger and pulling them out with suction." Simile pg. 20

Overview Sentence:

1. In the battle of sexes males try to control the females but females grew to resist it.

10th

The Emperors of Chocolate
By: Joel Glenn Brenner

Comments:

1. Everyone in Mars company are like robots, they all wear the same thing and are very quiet.

2. Mars produced the delicious snicker bar.

3. Snicker bars were recognized different in other countries.

4. Milton Hershey is willing to give everything he has to an orphanage boy when he dies.

5. The chocolate company also made Starburst.

Questions:

1. What was the Soviet Union?

2. Why would they produce a nasty chocolate?

3. What other products do they produce?

4. What happened to Forrest throughout the rest of his life?

Vocabulary:

1. Resonance: the effect of an event or work of art beyond its immediate or surface meaning pg. 287

2. Sentiment: a thought or idea based on a feeling or emotion pg. 306

3. Burgeoning: growing or expanding rapidly pg. 317

Literary Terms:

1. " Hershey has always been seen as backward." Simile pg. 296

2. ".. hugs promised to be a nightmare." Metaphor pg. 310

Overview Sentence:

1. Mars is really doing well with his company but Hershey passed his to someone else retiring.

9th

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.

8th

The Emperors of Chocolate
By: Joel Glenn Brenner

Comments:

1. Mars candy bars were overshadowing Hershey candy bars.

2. Hershey doesn't have a lot of money like Mars but respects his workers.

3. Hershey company was boring, no wonder it never sold a lot.

4. By Hershey advertising there is a chance it will progress and make Mars a second hand company.

5. Mars passed Hershey in market sale the first one ever.

Questions:

1. Why are companies in war with each other?

2. Why do companies drop off candies if they worker hard to make it?

3. They got cocoa beans from trees to make chocolate?

4. What do they mean by rein in chocolate company?

Vocabulary:

1. Antagonist: somebody or something opposing or in conflict with another pg. 220

2. Unethical: not conforming to agreed standards of moral conduct, especially within a particular profession pg. 223

3. Sacrosanct: very holy and sacred pg. 228

Literary Terms:

1. " The candy bars were outdated, broken and covered in dust." Direct Characterization pg. 200

2. " The only way to do it was to start pushing our products like everybody else." Simile pg. 229

Overview Sentence:

1. Mars is doing better than Hershey's company.

7th

The Emperors of Chocolate

By: Joel Glenn Brenner

Comments:

1. Hershey and Murrie were talking about business and they became partners to spread unmelting chocolate called m&ms.

2. For Murrie his company is all he is since his son and wife died. That got him 24/7 on working.

3. Hershey died and the town stood still closing public schools and businesses.

4. Having a best friend and partner is really good. Both could share success and pain.

5. The company was going good because their too top most important selling people were the department of war.

Questions:

1. Why did he want to have a business partner?

2. How many types of rice are there?

3. Are they going to use the rice to make rice crispy?

4. How come Forrest was a bad boss?

Vocabulary:

1. Perquisites: a tip that is customary on some occasions pg. 149

2. Extrovert: somebody whose interests are directed outside the self pg. 155

3. Consumption: the eating or drinking of something, or the amount that somebody eats or drinks pg. 157

Literary Terms:

1. " But on most days at the M&M factory when Forrest was "flaring" and his workers stood quivering the world associate rang empty, like a hallow candy shell." Simile pg. 148

2. " The public floggings pushed Murrie past his limit." Personification pg. 160

Overview Sentence:

1. They started selling rice in the company and it increased their total money.

6th

The Emperors of Chocolate
By: Joel Glenn Brenner

Comments:

1. Hershey's wife was like his best friend and she died with a none cure disease. He has let his chocolate business lower down.

2. In honor of his wife that died he is going to enlarge the school of the orphanage and give them a better life.

3. Hershey's factory are making less money now and its going out of business if he doesn't do nothing.

4. Some of Hershey's very own people are against him. People who didn't like the CIO were thrown out.

5. All the violence in the community got Hershey sad and crying. They forgot about all the things he did for them.

Questions:

1. What kind of disease did she have?

2. How come he likes wasting his money in helping out?

3. Why are the people going against his factory?

4. What was Hershey's real attempts in making chocolate?

Vocabulary:

1. Benevolent: performing good or charitable acts and not seeking to make a profit pg. 132

2. Bestow: to present something, especially something valuable or undeserved, to somebody pg. 138

3. Curative: able to restore health pg. 145

Literary Terms:

1. " Out of respect, they called him Mr. Hershey but they treated him like a parent." Simile pg. 133

2. "... after the stock market crash on October 1929 sent the economy into a tailspin." Metaphor pg. 138

Overview Sentence:

1. Hershey's factory is making less money now, needs to think of ways to progress.