https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4 After reading Chapter 1, we will determine which evidence is most relevant to supporting 3 different claims (each one will be a little more complex). en-us 2021-08-19 15:55:58 UTC 2021-08-19 16:33:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f33d.png jkatzman1 https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282166 Move all the RELEVANT evidence under this box.]]> 2021-08-19 15:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282166 jkatzman1 https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282168 Move all the IRRELEVANT evidence under this box.]]> 2021-08-19 15:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282168 jkatzman1 https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282169 2021-08-19 15:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282169 jkatzman1 https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282170 Corn began as a wild grass called teosinte . . . Teosinte still grows wild in some places in Central America, but if you saw it, you might not recognize it as the mother of corn.]]> 2021-08-19 15:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282170 jkatzman1 https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282171 Corn spread because it could adapt (change) to the needs of human being. Of course, it needed human help.]]> 2021-08-19 15:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282171 jkatzman1 https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282172 Todd Dawson, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley . . . says that when you look at the . . . average American's cells, 'we look like corn chips with legs.'"]]> 2021-08-19 15:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282172 jkatzman1 https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282173 About 40 percent of [people in Mexico's] calories come directly from corn, mostly in the form of corn tortillas.]]> 2021-08-19 15:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282173 jkatzman1 https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282174 Corn has managed to become the most widely planted crop in America - more than 80 million acres of farmland are planted with corn every year. Today it covers more acres of the country than any other living species, including human beings.]]> 2021-08-19 15:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282174 jkatzman1 https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282175 When Columbus returned to Spain after his first voyage [the the Americas] he described many wonderful things he had seen to Queen Isabella. One of his discoveries was a towering grass with an ear as thick as a man's arm, to which grains were 'affixed in a wondrous manner . . .' that grass was called maize, but today we know it as corn.]]> 2021-08-19 15:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282175 jkatzman1 https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282177 . . . While humans use plants and other animals, it's not a one-way street. Plants and animals don't just sit around waiting for human beings to use them - they use us, too.]]> 2021-08-19 15:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282177 jkatzman1 https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282178 Corn is in places you would never think to look. It's in the wax that coats the other vegetables . . . the coating that makes the cover of a magazine shine. It's even part of the . . . building because the wallboard, the floor, and many other building materials are made with corn.]]> 2021-08-19 15:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686282178 jkatzman1 https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686341850 [Corn] supplied [European colonist] with a ready-to-eat vegetable, a storable grain, a source of fiber, an animal feed, and heating fuel. Corn could be eaten fresh . . . or dried . . . stored over the winter and ground into flour. Corn could also be mashed and fermented to make beer or whiskey. No part of [it] went to waste. ]]> 2021-08-19 16:30:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686341850 jkatzman1 https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686345822 . . . One thing successful farmers did was plant more corn, helping maize build its kingdom. Corn helped the colonists and the colonists helped corn.]]> 2021-08-19 16:32:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jkatzman1/a5utow8hc1xuffd4/wish/1686345822