70 pages • 2 hours read
Marc Aronson, Marina BudhosSugar Changed the World
Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2010A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Paired Texts & Other Resources
Use these links to supplement and complement students’ reading of the work and to increase their overall enjoyment of literature. Challenge them to discern parallel themes, engage through visual and aural stimuli, and delve deeper into the thematic possibilities presented by the title.
Recommended Texts for Pairing
- feature article produced as a part of The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project
- Compare and contrast how Sugar Changed the World and this feature treat the same topics.
- Ask students to consider whether Mohammad’s approach to history also conveys the ideas that History is Complex and Personal and that Positivity Can Come from Negativity.
Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy by Albert Marrin
- a nonfiction young adult book about the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
- Compare and contrast with the treatment of history, exploitation, and commerce in Sugar Changed the World.
- Ask students to consider whether Marrin’s approach to history also conveys the ideas that History is Complex and Personal and that Positivity Can Come from Negativity.
