Leslie Sanders got in trouble all the time. Her teachers felt like she must sit at home and just think of creative ways to keep learning from taking place in their classrooms.
She was a very bright girl and made good grades, but her grades didn't really matter
when the classroom was flooded from her latest prank, which actually happened once.
She put a motion detector alarm in the classroom when she was in the fifth grade and it
went off four times before anyone could figure out what was going on. When she was in
the third grade she brought in a stray cat that kept hiding underneath furniture so colossal
that no one could even budge it. What was worse is that she always lied about her
shenanigans no matter what evidence was presented, even going so far as to maintain
her innocence when the principal had video.
Leslie had been planning a bigger prank for weeks but hadn't actually gone
through with it when the fire alarm went off. The firetrucks came, which was unusual for a
routine drill, and Leslie overheard the teachers saying someone must have pulled the
alarm. Leslie didn't think it was funny and felt her pranks had always been far more
sophisticated, so she was surprised when she was called to the principal's office. Despite
her protests, the principal insisted Leslie was the person who pulled the fire alarm. Leslie
begged for him to believe her, but he just kept listing all the other times she had said she
was innocent when she was actually guilty.
1. What is the meaning of colossal as it is used in the passage?
a. miniscule
b) large
C. unsightly
2.
What is the meaning of shenanigans as it is used in the passage?
a.
b.
past
intentions
pranks
3.
Underline the word or words that helped you determine the answer to 1 & 2.
4.
What is the theme of today's passage
5.
Write a summary of today's passage.

"and these i address to all females that would be married, or are already so; not that i suppose their sex more faulty than the other, and most to want advice, for i assure [women], upon my honour, i believe the quite contrary; but the reason is, because i esteem them better disposed to receive and practice it, and therefore am willing to begin, where i may promise myself the best success." this statement from franklin's "rules and maxims for promoting matrimonial happiness" best demonstrates his use of criticism to argue his point his use of common sense to appeal to women his use of flattery to gain women's attention his use of facts to prove his point

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.

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