"LET THE CHIPS FALL" Writing Project

Directions: Events in "Let the Chips Fall" are connected by cause-and-effect relationships. For each cause in the flow chart, write the effect .

Cause and Effect

A cause is why something happens. An effect is what happens as a result

*Make sure to write one effect for each cause in the blank box then submit your work. Possible effects:

a) people could ship thousands of bags of potato chips from coast to coast

b) Chef Crum fried some potatoes that were paper thin

c) he sent them back to the kitchen twice

d) Chef Crum sold boxes of chips in his new restaurant

e) he thought the Commodore would hate them.


Because the commodore did not think his fries were crunchy enough, (write the rest of this sentence in the box below and do the same thing for the other sentences.)

Because the Commodore sent his fries back to the kitchen again,

Because chef Crum made the potatoes so thin,

Because people loved the new potatoes chips so much,

Because someone invented a fryer that could fry hundreds of chips at once,

Because of the actions of a picky customer and a hot-tempered chef,

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