This is the lesson from 14 December 2018. This mostly covers about the Korean war in the history section.
Lesson
- Lesson of Friday, December 14, 2018
- Second Week, Day Nine
English
Parts of Speech
Nouns are things. Nouns can be classified as: Noun, Proper Noun, Pronoun.
Nouns are just name a thing like desk, door, floor. Proper Nouns name a specific person or thing. Examples of Proper Nouns: Tom, Jane, Lynn-They are proper nouns because they list a specific person.
- Adjectives describe nouns.
- Verbs are action words.
- Adverbs describe verbs.
Prepositions link nouns to other words. Examples of prepositions are to, or, in, with.
Conjunctions are words that link words, phrases, and clauses. They are also used sometimes to link two sentences together to make one sentence. Examples of conjunctions are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
Interjections are words that are not necessary to the meaning of a sentence but express the emotion of the writer. They can stand alone or be part of a sentence. Examples of interjections are: Ouch! Okay. Hey. Oh.
Sentences
Sentences are built like this:
Sentence
| Subject | Predicate |
| Noun | Verb |
| Adjectives | Adverbs |
Example sentence: The small woman slowly lifted the weight and reached over her head.
What is the subject?
Singular vs. Plural nouns
Singular nouns are nouning that name one thing such as:
- ball, house, floor, wall, lamp, television, disk
Plural nouns are nouning that name multiple things such as:
- balls, houses, floors, walls, lamps, televisions, disks
Singular vs. Plural verbs
Singular verbs go with singular nouns such as:
- the ball flies; the house stands; the wall falls; the lamp darkens; the disk spins
Plural verbs go with plural nouns such as:
- the balls fly; the houses stand; the walls fall; the lamps darken; the disks spin
Notice that plural nouns usually end in ‘s’ while plural verbs don’t, singular verbs usually end in’s’.
Subject Verb Agreement
Basic Rule. A singular subject (she, Bill, car) takes a singular verb (is, goes, shines), whereas a plural subject takes a plural verb.
Example: The list of items is/are on the desk.
If you know that list is the subject, then you will choose is for the verb.
Handwriting
Practice handwriting so you can get faster.
Math
Fractions
A fraction is one number over the other like this:
| Number | Numerator and Denominator | Result |
| 13 | is the numerator | Larger than 1. |
| 6 | is the denominator | |
| Notice that if the numerator is larger the fraction is greater than (>) 1. | ||
| 10 | is the numerator | = 1 |
| 10 | is the denominator | |
| If the numerator = the denominator the fraction = 1. | ||
| 1 | is the numerator | Smaller than 1. |
| 9 | is the denominator | |
| Notice that if the numerator is smaller the fraction is greater than (<) 1. | ||
| 100 | is the numerator | Undefined |
| 0 | is the denominator | |
| If the denominator = 0 the fraction is undefined because division by 0 is not allowed in mathematics. | ||
New Mathematical Symbols
- ≤ means less than as in 2 < 4
- ≥ means greater than as in 4 > 2
- × sometimes used to indicate multiplication instead of x
- / division
- ÷ division
- () grouping symbols
- [] grouping symbols
- {} indicating a set of numbers or things
- π pi equals approximately 3.14159265… which is an unending number and is the circumference of a circle of 1 unit
- ∞ infinity
- ≠ not equal to
- ≤ less than or equal to
- ≥ greater than or equal to
- square root
- )¯¯¯ long division sign
Multiplication Tables
Study the multiplication tables and addition tables on the dining room table.
Reading Comprehension
Read the following story guess the theme of the story.
The Solidarity of Fat Girls
- Text source is at http://americanshortfiction.org/new/solidarity-fat-girls/
It is your luck to be the brother of three fat girls.
They have insisted on the moniker. “We are fat girls,” Elsie has told you.
“If you don’t accept it, who will?” “Don’t say that,” you have replied, hopelessly. “You’re beautiful,” and she has kissed your forehead wetly, like an aunt—she is thirteen years your senior; she relishes that word girls—and said, “Exactly.” Elsie is the fattest of the three fat sisters. She once tried to be a plus-sized model, but size 18 was too large, so she has accepted a job writing copy for a crafts catalog.
You recognize that there are two kinds of girls: fat girls and thin girls; and within those, there are two kinds of girls: those who know which they are and those who don’t. Your sister Geraldine might defy categorization, a middle-sized girl with stolid thighs. But she’s identified herself as a fat girl, so she asks people to pull in their chairs before squeezing past; she never just squeezes. Geraldine is the type of babysitter whom the parents love and the children hate until they’re much older. She takes you with her to her charges’ houses, where you meet their working mothers.
Your mother has been gone for over a decade. She did not love you. This breaks your sisters’ hearts but disturbs you very little, because you feel so abundantly mothered. Your three sisters look the same to you, distinguished by the clarity of the hemispheres below their necks and by minute emphases: Elsie’s plucked eyebrows, Geraldine’s missing tooth, Karen’s sallow cheeks.
Karen is a thin girl who used to be a fat girl, this by dint of extended illness. She misses her old body. “You’re beautiful, Karen,” you tell her, once the cancer has stolen her breasts and scooped out her insides, leaving her without organs on which to store fat.
She says, “I feel naked.”
You don’t understand. She says, pressing your head to her blanket-swaddled chest, “I’ve lost the layer between me and the world.” Your mother does not come back. Your sisters hold out for her return, whispering, “We won’t let her,” “She doesn’t deserve him,” “We’re doing well by him, aren’t we?” refusing in advance to surrender you. You don’t remember courting girls. You have the air of being-cherished about you, so it’s easy to cherish you; you seem to demand it. You almost marry a fat girl who knows she is fat. She doesn’t assume that people’s brothers should love her. You couldn’t love someone who did.
You remember this: taking the sweater off your back, tugging it over Karen’s hollow chest. “No,” said Geraldine, pulling you from the casket.
“She feels naked,” you said.
The night before your wedding, you run away. Elsie is certain you’ll be at Karen’s grave. Your fiancé wants to stay home, crying cross-legged before her mirror, but Geraldine revs the pickup and says Get in.
Without you they drive carefully, imagining you watching. They do it first because it is their instinct and second because, if they are careful enough, maybe you will come back to them. But you are not at the graveyard. You are not on the streets.
Your sisters search all night, crying your name through the dawn, but their soft bodies grow tired and they don’t ever find you sitting just above them in the hollow of a tree, neck thrown back, arms stretched up, reaching for the belly of the moon.
Themes
Guess the theme:
- Fat girls are ugly.
- You shouldn’t be ashamed of your appearance.
- Fat girls are pretty.
- Cancer makes people pretty.
- None of the above.
Social Studies
Geography and World History
Sequence and Cause and Effect
Sequencing is arranging events in order in which they occur. When an automobile mechanic diagnoses a problem in an engine, he or she needs to understand the source of the problem. To fix the engine, the mechanic needs to understand the order in which the belts turn, the pistons pump, and the combustion within the engine occurs. Understanding the big picture allows the mechanic to notice other vehicle functions that may indirectly affect the performance of the engine.
Read the following sentence and locate the words that help to describe the order in which things happen.
Before mixing the cookie dough, mix the eggs, butter, and vanilla in a separate bowl.
While watching fireworks at a park, you will see the colorful lights first, and then you will hear the sound of the explosion.
Words like first, second, third, next, before, after clue in the reader as to the sequence of the events.
History
The Korean War
At the Potsdam Conference in 1945, the Allies decided to split Korea into two parts at the 38th parallel. North Korea became a Soviet-supported communist regime under the leadership of Kim Il-sung; South Korea became a U.S.-supported democratic state under Syngman Rhee.
After the division of Korea, Kim Il-sung looked to unify the nation. He garnered support from the Soviet Union and China to launch an invasion in South Korea, and remove those who supported Syngman Rhee’s appearance of democracy. Armed with Soviet rifles and tanks, North Korea crossed the 38th parallel on June 25, 1950; the war was underway.
President Harry Truman viewed the situation as more than just a war between two nations. He feared the North Korean strike was the first step in an international communist takeover led by the Soviet Union. In response, Truman cited a 1950 National Security Council report known as NSC-68, which called for military force to contain communism. The President and other top officials saw the conflict as an opportunity to declare war against communism. Therefore, with support from the United Nations, the United States moved to establish peace, and remove the communist invaders from South Korea.
The early engagements were negligible. The United States, and its affiliated forces, lacked an efficient strategy during the onset of the Korean War, not to mention the American soldiers found the terrain and weather extremely difficult to conduct operations in. Additional pains were caused by the inefficiently trained and poorly led South Korean army. By the beginning of September, North Korean forces had advanced all the way to the Tsushima Strait on the border of South Korea. The North Korean march also successfully captured Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
Credits
- This lesson was originally made with LibreOffice Writer by John M. Harpster.
- Formatted with Notepad++ for space removal.
- This was made and published to PDF with LibreOffice Writer and Microsoft Word by John T. Harpster.