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Worksheet time: 12mins
Ice-cream is a delicious frozen treat that comes in a many different colors and flavors. Two of my favorite flavors are strawberry and chocolate. Though both of these flavors are delicious, strawberry may contain pieces of fruit while chocolate usually will not. Even though more chocolate ice-cream is sold across the country annually than strawberry, each flavor tastes great inside of a milk shake.
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Margie’s Candies and Ice Cream, specializing in a wide variety of sundaes and classic milkshakes, won the Taste Testers award for best ice cream in Chicago. It received thirty-eight percent of the votes, with Chocolate Shoppe coming in 2nd with twenty five percent. Dairy Star was third with seventeen percent.
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Freezer burn may have wasted more ice-cream than sidewalks. If you don’t know, freezer burn is when ice crystals form on the surface of ice-cream. These ice crystals can ruin the texture and flavor of the ice cream. But you can prevent freezer burn. Since freezer burn is caused when melted ice-cream is refrozen, rather than eating your ice-cream from the container as it melts, scoop your ice-cream into a bowl and put the container back in the fridge immediately. Doing this ought to help you solve your issues with freezer burn.
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No one knows the true origin of ice-cream, but the first published ice-cream recipe appears in “Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts,” a cook book that was printed in London in 1718. Sometime around 1832, an African American confectioner named Augustus Jackson created multiple ice cream recipes and invented a superior technique to manufacture ice cream. Ice cream soda was invented around 1874, but the real breakthrough may have been at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, when the American ice-cream cone was unveiled!
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Making ice-cream is not easy. Cream and sugar have to first be mixed in a frozen container. Ingredients may be added at this point, if desired. The mixture must be stirred and whipped until the cream and sugar mixture is frozen. Depending on the equipment, this may take as long as an hour. After the ice-cream is prepared, it must be kept frozen until it is ready to be enjoyed. Making ice-cream is difficult, but most people would agree that it is worth the trouble.
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Have you ever had an ice-cream headache? That’s when a painful sensation resonates in your head after eating something cold (usually ice-cream) on a hot day. This pain is produced by the dilation of a nerve center in the roof of your mouth. The nerve center is overreacting to the cold by trying to heat your brain. Ice-cream headaches have turned many smiles to frowns.
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One time my mom and I made ice-cream. We added sugar and cream into a big glass bowl. We kept it frozen in the middle of a bigger glass bowl. While it froze, I stirred the mixture with a hand mixer. It was the first time that had I used one and it splattered ice-cream mixture all over the kitchen. The rest of the mixture finally froze, so we ate some ice cream, and then put the remaining portions in the freezer so that it wouldn’t get freezer burned. That was a good day.
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It was the most beautiful banana split that I had ever seen. In the middle of the bowl, there were three scoops of ice-cream: chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla. On top of the ice-cream were a banana and a thick web of chocolate and caramel sauces. A huge puff of whipped cream covered the sauces and a handful of crushed nuts dappled the whipped cream. On top of it all was a cherry, but I’ve never liked the soggy squish of cherries.
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When it comes to making ice-cream, you can do it the traditional way, by stirring it in a frozen container, or you can use liquid nitrogen to freeze your mixture. There are some advantages to using liquid nitrogen. Since liquid nitrogen freezes the mixture faster, the crystal grains are smaller, giving the ice-cream a creamier texture. The downside is that ice-crystals grow faster in ice-cream prepared using liquid nitrogen, so it must be stored at much colder temperatures. Both methods produce a distinct texture, and both are delicious.
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Text Feature Focus - Timelines
Mr. Tipre was in college from 2002-2006. Which Social Media was invented while he was in college?
Facebook (dark blue "f")
Twitter (light blue "t" symbol)
Snapchat (yellow and white ghost)
Instagram (camera picture)
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Text Feature Focus - Timelines
Twitter (light blue "t") came before which two other social medias?
Youtube and Snapchat (Yellow and white ghost)
Facebook (dark blue "f") and Pinterest (red "P")
Instagram (camera) and Vine (green "V")
No answers are correct
Text Feature Focus - Timelines
Bill Clinton was President of the U.S. from 1993 through 2001, then George Bush took over for two, four-year-terms. Which social media was NOT made during Bush’s time as president?
Facebook (dark blue "f")
Twitter (light blue"t")
Youtube
Snapchat (yellow and white ghost)
What text feature is this a sample of?
Declaration of Independence p. 84-88, 91, 101
Delaware p. 26, 29-30, 101, 180
Dr. Martin Luther King p. 220-227, 284-85
Index
Subheading
Table of Contents
Caption
What text feature is found at the bottom of a page and is there to provide additional information about the reading above?
Index
Footnote
Appendix
Add-Info
What text features do you see here?
Search bar, sidebar, videos
Tabs, Appendix, Map
Drawings, Diagrams, Paintings
Interactive Map, Bold Font, Casette Tape
Which text features would MOST LIKELY be used to help the reader know what the whole book is about?
Titles and table of contents.
Captions and footnotes.
Graphs and appendix.
Charts and bold fonts.
You would most likely find these text features in a math or science text book instead of an English text book.
Titles, glossary, maps.
Bold font, italicized font, underlined font.
Appendix, headings, subheadings.
Graphs, charts, and diagrams.
Timelines and map text features would likely be found in a:
Science text
European History book
Online dictionary
Article from Wikipedia
Which text feature(s) help you find what pages information is on quickly:
Table of contents and Index
Captions and labels
Glossary and sidebar
Navigation buttons and Tabs
This image shows:
A paiting and footnote
A historical photo and a caption
Photograph and footnote
Diagram with a caption
Which text feature do you NOT see on this screenshot?
Links
Map
Tabs
Footnote
Which text features are ONLY on websites?
Bold, italicized, and colored font.
Search bar, side bar, footnote
Interactive Maps and Videos
Links, titles, and index
Which text structures appear at the END of a book?
Appendix, glossary, index
Footnote, endnote, backnote
Audio, video, diagrams
Table of contents, Subtitles, Sidebar
