Look at the map and read the passage from "People Observe World AIDS Day!" from When Birds Get Flu and Cows Go Mad! by John DiConsiglio.

People all over the globe are observing World AIDS Day on December 1, 2006. World AIDS Day was established by the World Health Association in 1988. Every December 1, governments, churches, community organizations, and individuals show their support for the fight against the widespread disease of HIV/AIDS. (HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.)

A map listing statistics for adults and children living with H I V and the number of deaths due to H I V.

What central idea do these two sources have in common?

HIV/AIDS is a worldwide epidemic.
World AIDS Day is celebrated worldwide.
Africa has the most HIV/AIDS cases in the world.
Communities around the world are finding cures for HIV/AIDS.

Have you ever thought you understood a person based on a story that you have heard about them? have you ever guessed about a person's personal life because of the clothes they wore? or, have you judged a person because of their friends? although classifying people in this way is typically discouraged, authors deliberately use your preconceived ideas to you form an opinion about the character or to at least have a better understanding. can you think of a time that you made a character call about someone based on external aspects? were you correct, or incorrect? has anyone ever made an incorrect assessment of you based on external aspects? write two paragraphs about it in your journal.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.

In marigolds, based on the last three paragraphs of the excerpt, which statement would the narrator most likely agree with?