Animal Farm Theme Theory Assertion Paragraph There are central ideas or issues hiding in the books we read. The author will not tell you directly; the ideas and issues are behind the words and when you read you find yourself thinking about them. Common issues/ideas in books: Gender Roles Power Oppression Change Corruption Human Nature Learning Power Abuse Peer Pressure Identity Influences Relationships Life Lessons Lies and Deceit Violence And Many More! 1. Identify 3-4 central issues/ideas in Animal Farm. Use the list above and/or add ideas of your own. For each idea, include a brief description of how it appears throughout the story. 2. It’s not enough to just name the ideas. Consider how the book wants you to think about each idea. List the ideas again in the space below. Next to each idea write what message you think the book is sending about the idea. Look over your responses on the previous page. A theme is both the subject (#1) combined with the author’s int

Compare the excerpt you read from the introduction of great astronomers to the article you read about gis. what differences in purpose and tone do you notice?

Santiago said, “a man can be destroyed but not defeated.” in essence he says that a. defeat is likely when you sail alone. b. man can face defeat so it is important to learn from your mistakes and be prepared. c. sharks can always defeat man unless man is well prepared. d. man can be hurt and even destroyed but still have the ability to control how it is viewed.

Read the passage, then answer the question that follows. no one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. it was a hint—just a glimpse, like a twist that comes about two thirds of the way through a movie—that the end of the age of sugar was in sight. for beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the age of science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips. in 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. by 1899 the percentage had risen to about 65 percent. and beet sugar was just the first challenge to cane. by 1879 chemists discovered saccharine—a laboratory-created substance that is several hundred times sweeter than natural sugar. today the sweeteners used in the foods you eat may come from corn (high-fructose corn syrup), from fruit (fructose), or directly from the lab (for example, aspartame, invented in 1965, or sucralose—splenda—created in 1976). brazil is the land that imported more africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. cane grows in brazil today, but not always for sugar. instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in america now convert their harvest into fuel. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how does this passage support the claim that sugar was tied to the struggle for freedom? it shows that the invention of beet sugar created competition for cane sugar. it shows that technology had a role in changing how we sweeten our foods. it shows that the beet sugar trade provided jobs for formerly enslaved workers. it shows that sweeteners did not need to be the product of sugar plantations and slavery.