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

I can identify how saying and expressions are related to different parts of the country and different 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

stethoscope

facilities

superstition

curandera

Word Best Guess Dictionary Definition Sentence Picture

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

facilities

superstition

curandera

Word Best Guess Dictionary Definition Sentence Picture

threshold Part of a doorway She tripped on the metal band across the threshold.

stethoscope

facilities

superstition

curandera

Word Best Guess Dictionary Definition Sentence Picture

threshold

She tripped on the metal band across the threshold.

Part of a doorwayPart of a doorway

threshold Part of a doorway She tripped on the metal band across the threshold.

stethoscope

facilities

superstition

curandera

Word Best Guess Dictionary Definition Sentence Picture

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.

threshold Part of a doorway She tripped on the metal band across the threshold.

stethoscope

facilities

superstition

curandera

Word Best Guess Dictionary Definition Sentence Picture

threshold Part of a doorway She tripped on the metal band across the threshold.

stethoscopeInstrument 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

superstition

curandera

Word Best Guess Dictionary Definition Sentence Picture

stethoscope

When you visit a nurse practitioner, she takes the stethoscope and listens as you breathe in and out.

Instrument used for listening to Instrument used for listening to sounds in the chestsounds in the chest

threshold Part of a doorway She tripped on the metal band across the threshold.

stethoscopeInstrument 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

superstition

curandera

Word Best Guess Dictionary Definition Sentence Picture

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.

threshold Part of a doorway She tripped on the metal band across the threshold.

stethoscopeInstrument 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.

facilitiesThings meant to Things meant to make a job easiermake a job easier

Our school has wonderful facilities for students and staff.

superstition

curandera

Word Best Guess Dictionary Definition Sentence Picture

facilities

Our school has wonderful facilities for students and staff.

Things meant to make a job easierThings meant to make a job easier

threshold Part of a doorway She tripped on the metal band across the threshold.

stethoscopeInstrument 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.

facilitiesThings meant to Things meant to make a job easiermake a job easier

Our school has wonderful facilities for students and staff.

superstition

curandera

Word Best Guess Dictionary Definition Sentence Picture

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

Am I superstitious if I believe my back will break when my daughter steps

on a crack?

A belief based on fearA belief based on fear

thresholdPart of a doorway She tripped on the

metal band across the threshold.

stethoscopeInstrument 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.

facilitiesThings meant to Things meant to make a job easiermake a job easier

Our school has wonderful facilities for students and staff.

superstitionA belief based on A belief based on fearfear

Am I superstitious if I believe my back will break when my daughter steps on a crack?

curandera

Word Best Guess Dictionary Definition Sentence Picture

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.

thresholdPart of a doorway She tripped on the

metal band across the threshold.

stethoscopeInstrument 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.

facilitiesThings meant to Things meant to make a job easiermake a job easier

Our school has wonderful facilities for students and staff.

superstitionA belief based on A belief based on fearfear

Am I superstitious if I believe it is bad luck to walk under a ladder?

curanderahealerhealer Curanderas use

special herbs to heal the body.

Word Best Guess Dictionary Definition Sentence Picture

curandera

Curanderas use special herbs to heal the body.

healerhealer

Say “Thank You” to Your Partner

Vocabulary Match Up:

Write the number next to the vocabulary word to match the word to it’s definition

A. 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 easierThings meant to make a job easier E. Superstition_____ 5. instrument used by a doctor to listen

to a persons chest