Wednesday, January 28, 2009

5/4/3/2/1

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.

5/4/3/2/1

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?

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

5/4/3/2/1

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.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

5/4/3/2/1

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.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

5/4/3/2/1

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.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

5/4/3/2/1

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.

5/4/3/2/1

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