Wednesday, January 28, 2009

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?

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