Ketchup Wars - Day One

Pre-reading:

What are the factors we should consider before we choose a certain brand of Ketchup?

Reading:

http://www.standard-freeholder.com/2016/02/29/brand-switch-leads-to-viral-post

After Reading:

What are some more factors you read about in the article that you would consider when buying ketchup?

So far, based on this one reading and the taste test, which Ketchup are you in favour of and why?
Ketchup Wars - Day Two:
Pre-reading:

What is the main factor you now consider before buying Ketchup?

Should you STOP buying Heinz products and START buying only French’s products? Why or why not?

Reading:

We’ll watch the video together:

http://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/heinz-boycott-could-hurt-leamington

After reading:

Should you STOP buying Heinz products and START buying only French’s products? Why or why not?
Ketchup Wars - Day Three

Pre-reading:

So….based on the reading you’ve done so far, what is your understanding about where Heinz ketchup is made
and where French’s ketchup is made? Be specific:

Reading:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/french-s-using-leamington-tomatoes-in-its-ketchup-1.3404110

Optional reading:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ketchup-wars-is-frenchs-nationalism-mere-rhetoric/
article29301604/

After reading:

Does any one country “make ketchup”? Describe what parts of the French’s ketchup process are Canadian
and what parts are American:

How does Ketchup connect Canada and the US?

Are you surprised about the complexities involved in making Ketchup?

Which ketchup would you buy and what is the main reason you’d buy it?
Ketchup Wars - Day Four

Pre-Reading

If the store you usually shopped at didn’t sell your brand of ketchup, would you just go to another store for your
ketchup, or completely stop shopping at that store for everything? Why or why not?

Reading:

http://www.treehugger.com/culture/ketchup-snub-has-sparked-patriotic-backlash-canada.html

After reading:

What are the reasons why Loblaws stopped stocking French’s ketchup?

In your opinion, was Loblaws right or wrong in making this decision (NOTE - there is no right or wrong answer -
we want proof from the text and your own ideas here)
Summing up all our reading:

Finally, all our research is done. Based on everything on our anchor chart about “Ketchup”, which brand of
ketchup will you go home and encourage your folks to buy, and why?
Teacher Rubric:
Gather and organize information
on global issues of political,
social, economic, and/or
environmental importance,
including their impact and
responses to them (SS)
B2.5 evaluate evidence and draw
conclusions about global issues of
political, social, economic, and/or
environmental importance, their
impact on the global community,
and responses to the issues (SS)
B2.6 communicate the results of
their inquiries, using appropriate
vocabulary (SS)
B3.7 identify countries/regions
with which Canada has a
significant economic relationship
(SS)
B3.8 describe significant
economic effects on Canada and
Canadians of interactions
between Canada and other
regions of the world (SS)
1.4 demonstrate understanding of
increasingly complex texts by
summarizing and explaining
important ideas and citing relevant
supporting details (Read)
1.5 develop interpretations about
texts using stated and implied
ideas to support their
interpretations (Read)
1.6 extend understanding of texts
by connecting, comparing, and
contrasting the ideas in them to
their own knowledge, experience,
and insights, to other familiar
texts, and to the world around
them (Read)
1.8 make judgements and draw
conclusions about ideas in texts
and cite stated or implied
evidence from the text to support
their views (Read)
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