OPEN COURT UNIT 3, LESSON 4: STUDY GUIDE

 

This Week’s Spelling Words: The /s/ Sound

twice

surface

spruce

spice

prance

office

notice

faucet

price

distance

device

chance

brace

advice

recess

existence

conceive

balance

slice

process

Vocabulary

  1. controversial
  1. practitioner
  1. asthma
  1. skeptic
  1. significant
  1. participant
  1. hypothesis
  1. nausea
  1. annual
  1. therapeutic
  1. bioethics
  1. alternative
  1. clinical trial

 

 

 

Assignment #1_____________________
For each of the words 1—13, neatly and correctly write the word and its definition in your spiral notebooks.

Assignment #2_____________________
Answer Study Guide Questions 1—4, in complete, thoughtful sentences. Use our “boomerang question” response format. Read the story aloud to your parents and discuss the questions and your responses to them.

Assignment #3_____________________

Write at least one thoughtful, evidence-packed paragraph explaining why you think some people are willing to try a therapy that has no scientific proof that it works. Write in cursive and underline or highlight the vocabulary word.

 

Study Guide Questions

1.      What made Emily Rosa famous with doctors and scientists?

2.      How did the doctors and scientists learn about what Emily Rosa had done?

3.      What EXACTLY is “Therapeutic Touch”?

4.      Describe how a “Therapeutic Touch Therapist” would try to “heal” a patient.

5.      What illnesses do Therapeutic Touch therapists say they can help heal or ease pain?

6.      How did Emily describe her parents’ reaction to Therapeutic Touch Therapy?

7.      Be able to describe EXACTLY how Emily conducted her experiment.

8.      EXACTLY what were Emily’s findings? (Know the percentages of effectiveness.)

9.      How did Therapeutic Touch therapists react to Emily’s experiment?

10.  How did many scientists react to Emily’s experiment?

11.  Be able to give your opinion about whether or not Emily’s experiment was fair AND BE ABLE TO SUPPORT your opinion with DETAILS.

12.  The narrative suggested a way the Emily’s experiment could be modified. What is the modification and what would its purpose be?

13.  What was the next experiment that Emily planned to conduct?