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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.