Nutrition. To best build background knowledge for this unit, students should watch a competitive cooking contest.
read an article about planting seasonal vegetables.
compare costs of organic produce
review a chart with the five major food groups.

A. they give the reader hope. if the whole book was dark & unhopeful it’d be a little less interesting, little moments make it more interesting to read because then you want to know what happens. if it’s all dark there’s no point in reading if you already know the outcome of it.