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CHAPTER FOUR: SCHOOL, WORK, AND INDUSTRY
TEXT-DEPENDENT QUESTIONS
1. List three of Brazil’s main exports.
2. How has the state of Brazil’s education system impacted the poor?
3. Describe the effect that Brazil’s emerging middle class has had on the
country’s economy.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
1. Research Brazil’s top exports for 2013 and create a pie chart showing
the percentage of each commodity Brazil sends to other nations.
What can you conclude?
2. Research Brazil’s gross national product, the total amount of goods
and services a country produces, over the past ten years and create a
line chart to help you to understand if there has been a general trend
in recent years.
A coffee farmer harvesting
ripe beans.