ROAR 3

5 Things I Understand
1. Luca Turin worked with many colleagues to collect vital ideas and concepts that would add up to his theory.

2. Turin drew diagrams that would help him better visualize what he understood so far about the sense of smell.

3. Organization was a key component Turin's accumulation of important information because he collected different information from many sources.

4. Turin was determined to keep performing different experiments that would continue to add on new information.

5. Accuracy was very important to Turin in his lab. Pinpointing the exactly what each substance smelled like was something he payed a great deal of attention to.

4 Questions
1. Did Luca Turin think that his experiments were to the fnest level of accuracy as he would have liked or does he believe he could of done better?
2. How did Turin cope with the organizing and the accumulation of information?
3. Was there a specific mthod that Turin used to keep all the information he collected organized well?
4. How did some of Turin's colleagues view his determination and dedication to finding out how the sense of smell functioned?

3 Vocabulary Words

1. gelatinous (page 99): resembling jelly
2. carceplex (page 104): sudden brief attacks of the muscles
3.photoreceptor (page 111): a nerve ednding or a cell that recive light

2 Literary Techniques

1.Personification
"...spinning thier olfactory spells..."(page 114)

2.Imagery
"...were glued witha metal ion sitting in the meddle of thier guts..." (page 118)


1 Sentence Overview
Luca Turin continues to consult with his colleagues and accumulate inforamation to come up with a valid theory of how the sense of smell worked.