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.

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