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giraffe |
generous |
genuine |
gentleman |
genius |
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general |
cymbal |
citizen |
cinnamon |
certain |
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century |
center |
cement |
genie |
citrus |
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germs |
generation |
cancer |
magical |
circulate |
Vocabulary
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1. epidemic |
2. plague |
3. [life] expectancy |
4. infected, infectious |
4. Hippocrates |
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6. magnified |
7. microbes |
8. smallpox |
9. antibodies |
10. immune |
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11. chemist |
12. bacteria |
13. dispel |
14. spontaneous generation |
15. conducted |
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16. pasteurization |
17. flask |
18. vaccine |
19. sterilize |
20. disinfected |
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21. contaminated |
22. confirmed |
23. mystified |
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Assignment #1-----
For words 1--23, neatly and
correctly write the word and its definition in your Lang. Arts notebook. Write
in cursive.
Assignment #2-----
For each of the words—2, 4, 7, 9, 12—write a sentence which gives information about the narrative. Write the sentence neatly and carefully and underline or highlight the vocabulary word.
Assignment #3-----
Answer Study Guide Questions: Wordly Wise Group: Do Study Guide Questions 8--12. Write your answer with one or more complete sentences. Neat work is expected.
Study Guide for this Interesting and Challenging Narrative:
1. Study the Time Line of Medicine which begins on Page 209 and continues to 219.
2. How did Ancient and Native people treat their sick?
3. About how many people died in the Black Plague? What fraction of Europe’s population died of it?
4. What was the average life expectancy “back then”?
5. Who first guessed that what happened to the human body could be predicted and that diseases have natural and reasonable explanations? How did most people feel about his ideas?
6. What did William Harvey discover in 1600 and why is that considered such a breakthrough in medicine?
7. Who first discovered the existence of microbes? Was he able to make the connection between the microbes and disease?
8. What huge discovery did Edward Jenner make? How does that relate to our own time?
9. Pasteur made an incredible discovery—what was it? What is pasteurization and what is its purpose?
10. Be able to summarize what people understood about the reason for sickness and disease before the 20th Century.
11. What did Joseph Lister do to keep his surgical instruments clean?
12. What important medicine was Alexander Fleming responsible for discovering? What kind of medicine is it?
13. Summarize what you learned about the state of modern medical knowledge.
14. What do you think would happen if William Jenner conducted his human cowpox experiment today? Explain how he conducted this experiment and your thoughts about it in a paragraph.