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From Mystery to Medicine “ The New Doctor ”. Listen and Speaking Strategies. 1.3. identify how language (e.g., sayings, expressions, usages) reflects regions and cultures.
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From Mystery to Medicine “The New Doctor”
Listen and Speaking Strategies 1.3. identify how language (e.g., sayings, expressions, usages) reflects regions and cultures
THE NEW DOCTOR Unit 3, Story 5 Summary:The genre of this story is realistic fiction. The story is set in small village in New Mexico, where the opening of a new modern medical clinic threatens to replace the local, curandera, or healer. A young girl (Lupe) has always taken an interest in the work of her friend Manuelita who is her village's curandera. She worries how Manuelita is adjusting to the arrival of the new clinic and doctor there. Her curiosity about the new clinic also draws her there. She meets the new doctor and sees all the modern equipment. She finds the new doctor very likable but then feels she is being disloyal to her friend Manuelita She also worries that too many people will go to the clinic and stop using Manuelita's services. One day, a medical emergency brings both healers together with the new doctor confronted with needing to accept some of the ways of Manuelita, the curandera. This is a tale of confrontation and change and the push between new ways and old.
threshold Lupe trips and scrapes her knee on the threshold.
Threshold • Make your best guess • Use the sentence (context clues) to help you guess the meaning. • “Lupe trips and scrapes her knee on the threshold.” • Talk with your partner and write down your guess.
threshold • Part of a doorway She tripped on the metal band across the threshold.
stethoscope Dr. Johnson lets Lupe listen to her own heartbeat with the stethoscope.
Stethoscope • Make your best guess • Use the sentence (context clues) to help you guess the meaning. • “When you visit a nurse practitioner, she takes the stethoscope and listens as you breathe in and out.” • Talk with your partner and write down your best guess.
stethoscope • Instrument used for listening to sounds in the chest When you visit a nurse practitioner, she takes the stethoscope and listens as you breathe in and out.
facilities Dr. Johnson says she does not have special facilities for delivering a baby in the temporary building.
Facilities • Make your best guess • Use the sentence (context clues) to help you guess the meaning. • “Our school has wonderful facilities for students and staff.” • Talk with your partner and write down your best guess.
facilities • Things meant to make a job easier Our school has wonderful facilities for students and staff. TOCS Pride
superstition “Superstition has no place at a time like this,” says Dr. Johnson.
Superstition • Make your best guess • Use the sentence (context clues) to help you guess the meaning. • “Am I superstitious if I believe my back will break when my daughter steps on a crack?” • Talk with your partner and write down your best guess.
superstition • A belief based on fear Am I superstitious if I believe my back will break when my daughter steps on a crack?
curandera Manuelita is a curandera.
Curandera • Make your best guess • Use the sentence (context clues) to help you guess the meaning. • “Curanderas use special herbs to heal the body.” • Talk with your partner and write down your best guess.
curandera • healer Curanderas use special herbs to heal the body.
Vocabulary Match Up:Write the number next to the vocabulary word to match the word to it’s definitionA. Curandera_____ 1. a belief in things that are not real or possible B. Threshold_____ 2. healerC. Facilities_____ 3. the part of the doorway one steps over D. Stethoscope_____ 4. Things meant to make a job easierE. Superstition_____ 5. instrument used by a doctor to listen to a persons chest
