Everywhere around us, there are millions of tiny living things called germs. O points They are so tiny that they can be seen only under the most powerful
microscope. Some of these germs are no wider than twenty-five
thousandths of an inch! Louis Pasteur, the great French scientist, was the
first to prove that germs exist. The germs in the air can be counted. The
number of germs around us, especially in crowded rooms, is tremendous.
Certain scientists counted 42,000 germs in approximately one cubic
meter of air in a picture gallery when it was empty. But when the gallery
was crowded with people, they found nearly 5,000,000 germs in the
same place. In the open-air germs are less abundant. There are fewer
germs in country air than in town air. We see at once how important it is,
therefore, to live as much as possible in the open air, and for the rooms we
live in to always be well ventilated by fresh air. *
O 1. According the passage, where will you find more germs?

Follow the directions (and example) given to create your own sonnet. william shakespeare's sonnet 130 my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun, coral is far more red, than her lips red, if snow be white, why then her breasts are dun: if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head: i have seen roses damasked, red and white, but no such roses see i in her cheeks, and in some perfumes is there more delight, than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. i love to hear her speak, yet well i know, that music hath a far more pleasing sound: i grant i never saw a goddess go, my mistress when she walks treads on the ground. and yet by heaven i think my love as rare, as any she belied with false compare. instructions: write fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. use a sonnet rhyme scheme. use the first eight lines to set up your idea (the octave). use the last six lines to conclude your idea (sestet). (variety may be added by including a substitute foot from time to time such as the two anapests in line 3 above.) work in small groups giving each other feedback. reading the sonnet aloud allows you to hear the words and rhythms of the lines. generate questions that will clarify the use of words and forms. for example: was the idea of the sonnet presented in the first eight lines? how was sound used to enhance the meaning of the sonnet?