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5 SENTENCES
-None of the doctors were able to fix Yehuda right away.
-His mom and dad prepared soup and berries that were assumed to be magical.
-The Germans caught Lala but did nothing to her.
-The Nazis are winningand caught his mom too.
-Lala and Yehuda ended up starting a new life and livng together.

4 QUESTIONS
-Were the Germans more afraid of Yehudas army or was that pep talk?
-Do armiestill use manholes to protect themselves during wars?
-Is Yehua going to die?
-Where did the "special magical power" come from?

3 VOCAB WORDS
-bobbe-myseh
-prognosis
-unperturbed

1 OVERVIEW
-I think that Lala should be able to join the war.

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5 SENTENCES
-The air force struggled to defea the German's defense.
-Yehuda's only lives 3 blocks away, but becaus of the war they cannot see each other.
-If they win the war he will be ble to see his siter.
-Some pople thught the war missions were "polish bravado", impossible to execute.
-The yperite bomb (gas) can kill Germans abov and below ground.

4 QUESTIONS
-Were they going to giv up during the war?
-Why wouldnt the YMCA reunite him and his mother?
-Was Lola better at fighting in the war than the guys were?
-Would the gas kill Yeuda if he was close enough to it?

3 VOCAB WORDS
-yperite
-cavernous
-inaudibly

1 Overview
- Yehuda had to face the Nazis on his own time. He had courag and went out alone.

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5 Sentences
-A bullet set Molotov on fire.
-Yehuda and his companions begin to fight in the war.
-Many different problems from people getting sick to equipment being lost was a distraction.
-The older men were suppose to cook and because they would get so drunk they spit in the soup.
-Lala and Yehuda's mom sent letters to him to see how he was holding up in the war.

4 Questions
-Why were graves made for the boys that started their own army?
-What would happen if a German caught them with a message?
-Were the boys paid to fight in the war?
-How did Yehuda feel after he read the letter from Lala?

3 Vocab Words
-ultimatum
-ammunition
-zupa pluj-"spit soup"

2 Literary Terms
-"we were showered with leaflets calling for surrender"(Nir 171)
-"each shot crackled on the ground"

1 Overview
-Yehuda is now a teenage a boy fighting in WWII and he is seperated from the rest of his family.

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5 Sentences
-Yehuda's family stayed at a shelter away from the war.
-Many houses owned were bombed and many people were killed.
-Yehuda was only 9 when he was seperated from his mother, father and sister during the war.
-There was a YMCA open during World War II.
-Certain houses were bombed and others were left alone.

4 Questions
-Why were Hitler's pictures hung around the house?
-How long has the YMCA been open?
-Were the Russians suppose to bomb certain houses?
-Did the Russians military always have to be consulted with before bombing?

3 Vocab Words
-exuded
-bombardent
-liberated

2 Literary Terms
-imagry: "Her hair was black...she had the same mass curls" as Shirly Temple
-metaphor: wounded dragon as a machine

1 Overview
-Yehuda was once seperated from his family during the war. He is only 9 and was able to do the right thing and find help. He was brave.

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5 Comments
-The war that is soon to begin is World War II.
-Hitler invaded Austria in 1938.
-There was warlike music playing during the war.
-The Russians and Germans work together.
-The boy overestimates his father all the time.

4 Questions
-Why did the kids joke about the sign "Strong, United, and Ready"?
-why didnt the family prepare for the war?
-Did the father get hurt during WWII?
-Did any of the horses get killed while bringing the people away from the war?

3 Vocab Words
-benign
-perennial
-permissiveness

2 Literary Terms
-text to self: My parents use to speak Spanish when they didnt want me to understand.
-foreshadow: after the war they will all be poor.

1 Overview
- I think that running away in horses during a war is not safe, but when it is one of the only ways to escape, go for it.

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-Sarah is back at the crime scene.
-There is someone at the crim scene with Sarah but she doesnt know.
-The Popes wife is suddenly missing.
-The wife tries to frame her daughter.
-Kale thinks that the Pope killed Vallerie.

4Questions
-Who tries to kill Sarah?
Is Sarah going to die?
-Is the wife the killer?
-Why did the wife kill Vallerie?

3 Vocab Words
-derision
-turbulent
-laden

2Literary Terms
-mystery novel: this book was about a mystery and trying to solve the crime scene
-ironic: the wife blamed her daughter when she was the real killer

1 Overview
-I would have never thought the wife was the killer but as it got toward th ed i had second thoughts about her.

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5 Sentences
-Pope is a killer from the past.
-The Pope is a killer and his daughter is crzzy.
-Sarah notices something funny going on in the Pope's house.
-I think Sarah is going to upst Kale and solve the mystery on her own.
-The Pope's wife is always brought up in the book but doent really have a major part.

4Questions
-Why is the Pope so afraid of being around Sarah?
-Does an one know that the Pope is a killer?
-Why doesnt Kale let Sarah go on her own?
-What does the wife have to do with the investigation?

3Vocab words
-recumbent
-derogatory
-monotuous

2literary terms
-flashback: Pope was thinking about what he has done in the past to the teenage girl.
-irony: Sarah saw the Pope in the window and he was also behind her.

1Overview Sentence
-I think that somene in the Pope family is the murderer of Vallerie.

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5Sentences
-Brton want Sara to leave Youngstown.
-Baton was reding someing that scred him a lot. It had to do with the murder.
-Jerald was watching Sarah ever single night.
-Jerald's wife was constantly mad at him for no reason.
-Jerald felt as if no one but Sarah could understand him.

4Questions
-Why was Bartonso afraid of Sarah?
-Who were both dead???
-Did Jerald kill Vallerie?
_Why was Jerald staring outof the window with a telescope watching Sarah?

3Vocab ords
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-
-

2Literary Terms
oxymoron: "you cant watch every night"
similie: "the kiler must have been asdark as the midnight sky"

1Overview Sentence
I think that Jerald Ppe has something to do with the murder and his wife my know something out it.

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5Sentences
-Kale got Sarah to have dinner wth hisparents.
-Kale's chest tightened when he thought of a killer being around his neighborhood.
-Kale drove and parked into a cementary with rah.
-Barton waswaching arah as she approachd to his house.
-It seemeas if Barton was hiding from Sarah.

4Questions
-Who was Sarah hiing from?
-Were there drugs involved inthe murder?
-Was Sarh getting soft on Kale?
-Did Sarah love him or was she using him for other things>

3Vocab Words
-volatle
-heinously
-pulsated

2Literary Terms
-"The tough New York girl vanished and thi soft, sexy woman emerged"
-foreshadow: Vallerie was murdered by someone she knew

1Overview Sentence
-Sarah met Kale's family ad itmay have brought him closer to her. Sarah mightnot feel the same way about Kale as he does abouther.

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5Sentences
-Even though Sarah almost died she still wants to find the killer on her own.
-Kale kept looking at Sarahs butt instead of focusing onwork.
-Tension arose as Kale sat next to Sarah durin the investigation.
-They are certain that the killer is a male.
-The murder 20 years ago is matchinf the murder of Vallerie.

4Questions
-Who was calling Kale?
-Why was Sarah thinking about sex with Kale?
-Does the cheif know morethan he was telling them?
-Is Sarah and Kales relationship going to ruit their job?

3Vocab Words
-derision
-floral
-hemorrhaging

2Literary Terms
-oxymoron: demons are real people
-man vs man: Sarah and Kale with their relationship

1Overview Sentence
I think that the closer sarah and Kale get the more they would lose focus on the investigation. Then again Sarah seems like she wouldnt let nothing come in between her and the investigation.

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-It has been 19 years and Sarah still fights dreams of her past.
-Vallerie was a 19 year old girl in college and friends with every one.
-Alicia Appleton was a highschool cheerleader wo is rich and many people hate her.
-There was a man staring at Sarah from the Pope's mansion.
-Someone was whispring behind Sarahs ear.

4Questions
-Who could've killed Vallerie Gerald?
-What did Vallerie lie about?
-"If the victim bled out at the scene, how was she restrained"?
-How was her mothr and father screwed up?

3Vocab Words
-propelled
-sternum
-methodical

-2Literary Terms
-metaphor: demons are nightmares
-text vs text: therei a mirror as symbolism in "Find Me" and "A Raisin in the Sun"

1 overview
- Someone was out to kill Sarah. They saw tat she was getting closer to figuring out the truth and that was the last thing that they wanted her to do.

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5Sentences
-The psychiatrist knew that Sarah was lying about all of the questions that she asked.
-Sarah spent 7 days in a padded room hearing voices in her head that aren't hers.
-LIAR was written on the victms forehead.
-Sarah made Conner feel adequate and feel like he was somebody.
-A medal from a spelling bee was pushed down the victims throat.

4Questions
-Why is Sarah lying to her shrink?
-What makes Sarah so paranoid about eating food in restaurants, or eating out in general?
-How was the killer able to push the medal down the victims throat?
-Is the killer really one of their own residents of Youngstown?

3Vocab words
-discern
-innocuous
-autopsy

2Literary terms
-man vs man: the killer vs the victim
-foreshadow: somting else will go wrong in Youngstown

1Overview
- The victim has suffered a horrible death. She had a medal shoved down her throat, her south was sewed shut, and her body was super glued to the cement.

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5Sentences
-Gerald and Linda are a rich married couple and live in a mansion above the Chapelof Innocents.
-The death took place at the Chapel of Innocents built in 1885 in memory of their daughter who died 16 from pnemonia.
-Karen could only show certain things or answer certain questions.
-There is a curse brought upon the town because of new propety development.
-Sarah continues thave nightmares.

4Questions
-Why is the Pope's wife jealous of her own daughter?
-What does the deputy Karen have to do with the death?
-Why was the crime scene photo taken out the file Karen planned to show Sarah?
-What happened to Sarah during her childhood tat caused her to have to see shrinks?

3Vocab words
-requisite
-desecrated
-shrink

2literary terms
-oxymoron: people can actually br glued to cement
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1overview
- Sarah has had something happen to her that she has to see shrinks and continues to have nightmares.

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5Sentences
-The killer can be a male or a female.
-Newton seems stubborn because she never listens to her other partners.
-Newton questions Conner about what he saw the night of the murder.
-Conner acts weird as if he is hiding something.
-Newton is destined to solve the case more than any of the others.

4Questions
-What do crows have to do with death?
-Why do the CSI always blame males when it comes to murders?
-Does Valerie's murder have to do anything with the murder 20 years ago?
-Did Conner have to do anything with the murder or did her just witness it?

3Vocab Words
-weilded
-resurrection
-vengeful

2Literary Terms
-oxymoron: New York being considered the "Big Apple"
-foreshadow: There was a crime that happened 20 years ago in the same place

1Overall Sentence
-At the end of chapter 5 I got to thinking that Conner knows more than anyone else and he is not really telling anyone. As Newton questions him I noticed that he started having flashbacks of what he saw. Conner can help Newton get to the end of the case.

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5 sentences
-There was a guy holding the teenage girl hostage where no one can hear her.
-Sarah newton is a CSI trying to solve a case.
-One girl is dead when another went missing around the same time.
-Barton Harvey wanted to stop Sarah Newton from solving the case.
-Reverend Christopher felt as if was his fault the two girls were hurt.

4 questions
-Who was this girl that was held hostage?
-Does the dream help Newton solve the case?
-Why did Kale not trust Newton to slove the case alone?
-Did Barton Harvey murder the girl?

3 vocab words
-convulsed
-stangnant
-crucifix

2 literary terms
-foreshadow: The murderer may be someone close to Newton.
-similie: "The mere smell was like sex." She was refering to the coffee.

1 overview
-As I was reading i keptthinking about who the nararator is and if they have anything to do with the crime.

term 2 book

The fiction book i chose to read for term 2 is Find Me by Debra Webb.

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5 SENTENCES
-I noticed a rhyme scheme of AA, BB, CC,DD...
-There are 3 stanzas and 4 lines in each stanza.
-Microbes eat poop when we are alive and eat our body when we die.
-The microbes are the readers of the poem.
-If microbes did not exist some people would not exist.

4 QUESTIONS
-Why was the poem in the book?
-Is there a reason why the poem was placed in the beginning of the chapter and not the end?
-Does dieting get rid of bad microbes?
-What else besides poop do microbes decompose?

3 VOCAB WORDS
-chortling
-excrete
-mesophiles

2 LITERARY TERMS
-txt to self: " If I should die before I wake", my little brothers teddy bear says that.
-personification: rain, worms, and water have their ways just as living organisms do.

1 OVERVIEW
- I am at the end of my book and i have to say that i have learned a lot about microbes and bacteria. I learned how some bacteria and microbes are good for our bodies and others are bad.

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5 SENTENCES
-The creatures that live in our bodies use it as their habitat.
-Bacteria reproduces by dividing.
-Tore Midtvelt searched for any type of germ-free animal.
-There is a such thing of a germ-free animal.
-Rats are one example of germ-free animals.

4 QUESTIONS
-How often does bacteria divide?
-Were there always "germ-free" animals in the world?
-Are most rats germ-free?
-How long can a rat stay germ-free?

3 VOCAB WORDS
-progeny
-contaminate
-appartus

2 LITERARY TERMS
-personification: microbes use the body as a habitat
-imagry: "one portion ballooned out"

1 OVERVIEW
- The idea of germ-free animals surprised me because i thought all animals had germs. I thought that rats of all animals had the most germs. I learned something new.

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5 SENTENCES
-The human body contains a hundred trillion cells.
-When yeast grows think it turns to mold.
-Many microbes are found in the large intestine.
-Microbes hold poisons that kill us as we absorb them.
-Bulgarian bacillus is used to drive out harmful microbes.

4 QUESTIONS
-Why is it microbe-free in the mother's womb?
-How are microbes helpful to the human body?
-What is it meant by "autointoxication"?
-What is bacillus made from?

3 VOCAB
-hospitable
-remnant
-primtive

2 LITERARY TERMS
-irony: our bodies are made of microbes but a mother's womb is microbe free
-personification: "A good microbe could be called on to overcome a bad one."

1 OVERVIEW
-I am noticing that our body is made of good and bad microbes. They are found every where in the human body, bu not in the womb of a mother.

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5 SENTENCES
-The cacao tree only grows in tropic areas.
-It is more then 30 feet tall and towers many other trees.
-Yeast can rapidly change sugar to energy.
-The yeast die after creating alcohol.
-Small microbes feed on the alcohol that yeast produce.

4 QUESTIONS
-Why was making chocolate complicated?
-How do microorganisms develope the cacao seed?
-What kind of alcohol do yeast produce?
-How long does it take to make one chocolate bar?

3 VOCAB WORDS
-theobroma: "food of the gods"
-concoction
-fermenting

2 LITERARY TERMS
-irony: its ironic how yeast can die from something it creates
-imagry: there was another advertiser imported in the story that showed how people got their cacao beans and chocolate.

1 OVERVIEW
- The part of the chapter that I read today introduced more of what yeast had to do with chocolate. The yeast helps form the cacao beans and after creates an alcohol that kills the yeast.

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5 SENTENCES
-The Indians and Spaniards adore black chocolate.
-While making bread yu can see the yeast bubbling.
-Chocolate was so valuable that it was used for money.
-Hot chocolate was considered nutritius.
-There was a cacao tree that was made for gods.

4 QUESTIONS
-What does Columbus have to do with yeast?
-Does chocolate create yeast?
-Why was cacao reserved for the wealthy people?
-Why didn't the Spaniard Jesus accept cacao?

3 VOCAB WORDS
-nauseating
-anointed
-botanist

2 LITERARY TERMS
-irony: "Cacao seems more suited for pigs than for men."
-forshadow: It says that "At first" the Spaniards didn't accept cacao or hot chocolate. So I assume that later on the did accept it.

1 OVERVIEW
- I think that the fact that cacao beans was used as money was surprising. Hot chocolate was only saved for the wealthy people as well. To me that is not fair at all because what were the peasants suppose to drink?

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5 SENTENCES
-Yeast can grow faster than other cells and bacteria.
-Fleischmann brothers learned how to make quick cakes out of yeast to be sold to hungry customes.
-There was a species of yeast produced by the Fleischmanns was called Saccharomyces cereviside. It is what they used to make their cakes.
- The production of yeast made the two brothers rich. Yeast was spead out to of 30,000 bakers and 225,000 grocers.
-Sourdough was an invention that was given to startrs in the nineteenth century.

4 QUESTIONS
-Does yeast make people sick?
-Was eating yeast a good nutrition?
-When was yeast used in the military?
-What is the reason for the military using yeast?

3 VOCAB WORDS
-perishable
-daunting
-plumes

2 LITERARY TERMS
-personification: "Give yeast some water and it will happily sprang to life".
-article: There was an inserted article in the book.

1 OVERVIEW
-The way the two brothers just used yeast for opening a shop was a smart idea. They started with nothing but a bacteria cell and went to many pastries and cakes and making a lot of money.

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5 SENTENCES
-There is a certain type of flor called "sourdough" that allows bread to rise.
-Bread was made over 6 thousand years ago.
-Yeast cells grow and reproduse when they eat sugar.
-Yeast also causes bread to rise when and and after it is baked.
-Louis Pasteur proved the fungus contribution.

4 QUESTIONS
-Is it the bread that released carbon dioxied or the dough's sugar?
-Does carbon dioxide make the bread go rotten or get mold?
-Why do yeast love sugar?
-Did Pasteur follow or add on to Leeuwenhoeks observations of microbes?

3 VOCAB WORDS
-unleaven
-yeast
-medieval

2 LITERARY TERMS
-oxymoron: "there's something alive in my kitchen and it is 10,000 years old."
-personification: "Strange flavors made their way into the alcohol he was making from the beet of sugar."

1 OVERVIEW
- What I read about had to do with yeast. Yeast is mainly in bread and its what helps the bread rise the way it does. Without the yeast the bread would not be so "fluffy". I learned that yeast was a type of bacteria.

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5 SENTENCES
-Microbes love every single kind of food that humans eat.
-Microbe poison our food in a dangerous way.
-When milk sours it is because the microbes got to it before humans did.
-Salting cheese prevents microbes from getting to it.
-One piece of mold can cause thousands of spores on cheese.

4 QUESTIONS
-What does it mean when they say 'humans have to get food before the microbes do"?
-Does rennet only come from cows?
-How come mold was not identified earlier?
-Were calves ever able to drink milk from their mothers?

3 VOCAB WORDS
-voraciousness
-pasteurized
-rennet

2 LITERARY TERMS
-txt vs. world: In the txt it said that the microbes took over every single thing in the world.
-man vs man: Baby calves could'nt drink milk from the older female cows.

1 OVERVIEW
- I found out that microbes take over every single thing in the world, but it seems as if they get in to the dairy more often. That is why the milk spoils quick and the cheese molds.

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5 SENTENCES
-The first person to study microbes was Antony van Leeuwenhoek.
-Leeuwenhoek created his own microscopes in the 17 century.
-Microbes were called little animals during this time.
-Vinegar was used to kill tiny microbes.
-Leeuwennhoek was the first person to determine the look and size of a microbe.

4 QUESTIONS
-Why did Leeuwenhoek want to study microbes?
-How did Leeuwenhoek prove that microbes existed?
-Why did he want microbes to be apart of his life?
-What did people do before the 17 century?

3 VOCAB WORDS
-futilely
-animalcules
-cocci

2 LITERARY TERMS
-imagry: "Fungi can be as large as a mushroom or a small as yeast" (pg 11)
-man vs. world: Leeuwenhoek had to face the wolrd when he found out about microbes. He needed to find a way to get people to believe him and he did.

1 OVERVIEW
-Leeuwenhoek discoved microbes and it literally became apart of his life. He did not want to die without people knowing about microbes. Anything he did had to do wit microbes or else he thought he wasn't living his life right.

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5 SENTENCES
-More than 100 trillion microbes live on a human.
-Microbes are too small to see with just your eye.
-Microbes bring oxygen onto the Earth for organisms to breath.
-There are more than 10,031,000 quintillion good microbes/bacteria.
-There are less than 308 quintillion bad microbes/bacteria.

4 QUESTIONS
-Are there more bad or good microbes?
-How many microbes make are on the human body?
-Are microbes the same as cells?
-Does bacteria cause illnesses to the human body just as humans can?

3 VOCAB WORDS
-microbe
-alchemy
-interspersed

2 LITERARY TERMS
-metaphor: It says that your armpit is a "tropical forest"
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1 OVERVIEW
- While reading what a microbiologist wrote about how bad "bacteria is no dangerous to humanity than man himself". Then I came to a question, Does bacteria cause illness to the human body on purpose just as humans can do?

3rd term reading

The book I am reading for 3rd term is "Invisible Allies" and it is by Jeanette Farrell. This book is about all of the little microscopic organisms that make up humans and how they can be help and dangerous to others