Vincent is writing a funny, informative essay about what you can learn from a two-year-old. Match each portion of the essay to the correct characteristic of a speech. commentary
theme
hook
evidence
For one thing, toddlers don’t hold grudges.
They don’t overanalyze why Janet forget
to text them or stew over the fact that
Ryan picked them last for the team.
Toddlers forgive, forget, and give
you hugs.
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According to the Department of Education and
Training, toddlers can walk up stairs, squat
without using their hands, kick a ball, throw
overhand, and say 50 words. Although they are
more independent than babies, they still demand
the constant attention of their caregivers.
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My little brother is two years old, which
makes him a toddler. As much as I try
to teach him to talk and do other things,
I think he teaches me more. He teaches
me about how to treat others and how
to stay positive.
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Have you ever watched a toddler throw
a tantrum at the grocery store? Have you
ever seen a toddler trip over themselves
or struggle to reach something? You may
be thinking to yourself, “I am so glad I’m
not a toddler anymore. I can do so much
more than they can, and I don’t need any
help!"

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.