How do both the medium and format of the excerpt convey information effectively?
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Sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. People
throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do
anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness.
We even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar
for the first time. When the Lewis and Clark Expedition
met up with the Shoshone, who had little previous
contact with Old World products, Sacagawea gave a tiny
piece of sugar to a chief. He loved it, saying it was "the
best thing he had ever tasted." Sugar created a hunger, a
need, which swept from one corner of the world to
another, bringing the most terrible misery and
destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of
liberty.
-Sugar Changed the World,
Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos
O The visual text creates an image of Sacagawea
tasting sugar for the first time.
O The words can be read aloud for a deeper
understanding of a sugar craving.
O The format of the print text helps the reader
understand the concept of liberty.
The text combines facts with a story to introduce an
idea about the impact of sugar.
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