Chocolate From Children

Which words tell you how much chocolate Americans eat per year?

• 1. Had some chocolate recently

• 1. About 12 pounds of it

• 1. Main ingredient in chocolate

• 1. People who buy chocolate

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

Which words tell us how children who pick cocoa beans work in poor conditions?

• 1. She wakes up at 4 am.

• 2. Walks two miles to her family’s cocoa bean field

• 1. Sametta does not have time to go to school. 

• 1. Her health is also at risk. 

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

Which answer tells you how many children pick cocoa beans?

• 1. Long ago

• 1. Every day

• 1. 300,000

• 1. 12 hour days

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CCSS.6.NS.B.3

Which words tell you why so many children pick cocoa beans in West Africa?

• 1. The reason is money

• 1. Extremely poor countries send children to work

• 1. Depend on growing and selling cocoa beans to survive

• 1. All of the above 

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

Which words tell you what chocolate companies should be doing?

• 1. U.S. government created an international agreement

• 2. help eliminate child slavery

• 1. By July, 2005

• 1. However, the agreement has not

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

Which words tell how the Rainforest Alliance is working to stop the problem of child labor?

• 1. Teaching them ways to protect soil

• 1. Ensuring that children go to school

• 1. Designed to protect the environment

• 1. Farms meet strict standards  

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.1