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5 SENTENCES
-I noticed a rhyme scheme of AA, BB, CC,DD...
-There are 3 stanzas and 4 lines in each stanza.
-Microbes eat poop when we are alive and eat our body when we die.
-The microbes are the readers of the poem.
-If microbes did not exist some people would not exist.

4 QUESTIONS
-Why was the poem in the book?
-Is there a reason why the poem was placed in the beginning of the chapter and not the end?
-Does dieting get rid of bad microbes?
-What else besides poop do microbes decompose?

3 VOCAB WORDS
-chortling
-excrete
-mesophiles

2 LITERARY TERMS
-txt to self: " If I should die before I wake", my little brothers teddy bear says that.
-personification: rain, worms, and water have their ways just as living organisms do.

1 OVERVIEW
- I am at the end of my book and i have to say that i have learned a lot about microbes and bacteria. I learned how some bacteria and microbes are good for our bodies and others are bad.

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5 SENTENCES
-The creatures that live in our bodies use it as their habitat.
-Bacteria reproduces by dividing.
-Tore Midtvelt searched for any type of germ-free animal.
-There is a such thing of a germ-free animal.
-Rats are one example of germ-free animals.

4 QUESTIONS
-How often does bacteria divide?
-Were there always "germ-free" animals in the world?
-Are most rats germ-free?
-How long can a rat stay germ-free?

3 VOCAB WORDS
-progeny
-contaminate
-appartus

2 LITERARY TERMS
-personification: microbes use the body as a habitat
-imagry: "one portion ballooned out"

1 OVERVIEW
- The idea of germ-free animals surprised me because i thought all animals had germs. I thought that rats of all animals had the most germs. I learned something new.

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5 SENTENCES
-The human body contains a hundred trillion cells.
-When yeast grows think it turns to mold.
-Many microbes are found in the large intestine.
-Microbes hold poisons that kill us as we absorb them.
-Bulgarian bacillus is used to drive out harmful microbes.

4 QUESTIONS
-Why is it microbe-free in the mother's womb?
-How are microbes helpful to the human body?
-What is it meant by "autointoxication"?
-What is bacillus made from?

3 VOCAB
-hospitable
-remnant
-primtive

2 LITERARY TERMS
-irony: our bodies are made of microbes but a mother's womb is microbe free
-personification: "A good microbe could be called on to overcome a bad one."

1 OVERVIEW
-I am noticing that our body is made of good and bad microbes. They are found every where in the human body, bu not in the womb of a mother.

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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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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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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.

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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.