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.

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