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.

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