Chocolate Outline
Chocolate
By: Emily Lieboff
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the health benefits of chocolate
Central Idea: Chocolate is one of the oldest treats around; that has some beneficial health factors to it.
Introduction
I. Attention-Getting
a. When I was younger I would sneak a piece of dark chocolate in right before dinner… Made me feel a little naughty! Of course my dad would always catch me and ask “where’s my piece?” and we’d eat it together. It was our little secret. How many of you have ever done this? To this day I still get that feeling!
II. Credibility
a. Chocolate has been my favorite ever since I was little and have enjoyed the different tastes, textures and health benefits behind it.
III. Preview
a. History of Chocolate
b. Different Types of Chocolate
c. Health Benefits of Chocolate
Body
I. History of Chocolate
a. 1500 BC -400 BC Olmec Indians were first to from Cocoa Beans as Domestic Crop. Civilization only lasted 300 B.C.
b. 600 AD Mayans migrate Central & South America establish cocoa plantation
c. 14th Century: Aztecs upper classes who usurped the Mayan drink taxed the beans & drank chocolate drink, because it supposedly healed the soul.
d. Aztecs restricted the drink to priests, nobles, kings, queens, officials and worriers. (showed of sign of higher class)
e. 1502 Columbus entered Mayan trading channel and bring back cocoa beans to King Ferdinand (4th visit to New World) as it was over looked to the other treasures.
f. 1519-1570 Heran Cortes a Spanish, went to Vera Cruz, Mexico and was mistaken for the god (the god who gave the Aztecs the cocoa beans and taught how to cultivate it) he conquered Aztec empire returned to King Charles V.
g. Cortes kept Aztec tradition and heavily taxed the chocolate so only rich can afford it the chocolate drink was told to heal the soul and to keep you healthy from bad diseases. From then on chocolate became a profitable industry.
II. Types of Chocolate
a. White
By: Emily Lieboff
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the health benefits of chocolate
Central Idea: Chocolate is one of the oldest treats around; that has some beneficial health factors to it.
Introduction
I. Attention-Getting
a. When I was younger I would sneak a piece of dark chocolate in right before dinner… Made me feel a little naughty! Of course my dad would always catch me and ask “where’s my piece?” and we’d eat it together. It was our little secret. How many of you have ever done this? To this day I still get that feeling!
II. Credibility
a. Chocolate has been my favorite ever since I was little and have enjoyed the different tastes, textures and health benefits behind it.
III. Preview
a. History of Chocolate
b. Different Types of Chocolate
c. Health Benefits of Chocolate
Body
I. History of Chocolate
a. 1500 BC -400 BC Olmec Indians were first to from Cocoa Beans as Domestic Crop. Civilization only lasted 300 B.C.
b. 600 AD Mayans migrate Central & South America establish cocoa plantation
c. 14th Century: Aztecs upper classes who usurped the Mayan drink taxed the beans & drank chocolate drink, because it supposedly healed the soul.
d. Aztecs restricted the drink to priests, nobles, kings, queens, officials and worriers. (showed of sign of higher class)
e. 1502 Columbus entered Mayan trading channel and bring back cocoa beans to King Ferdinand (4th visit to New World) as it was over looked to the other treasures.
f. 1519-1570 Heran Cortes a Spanish, went to Vera Cruz, Mexico and was mistaken for the god (the god who gave the Aztecs the cocoa beans and taught how to cultivate it) he conquered Aztec empire returned to King Charles V.
g. Cortes kept Aztec tradition and heavily taxed the chocolate so only rich can afford it the chocolate drink was told to heal the soul and to keep you healthy from bad diseases. From then on chocolate became a profitable industry.
II. Types of Chocolate
a. White
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