This lesson is from 19 October 2018. This covers about the American economics.

Lesson

Lesson of Friday, October 19, 2018

Third Week, Day Twelve

English

Sentences

Sentences are built like this:

		Sentence
	Subject		Predicate
Noun	Adjectives		Verb	Adverbs

Nouns and Verbs

Nouns and Adjectives

Nouns are things. Here is a list of some nouns. Adjectives explain nouns more succinctly. Some adjectives are listed next to the nouns.

Verbs and Adverbs

Verbs are action words. They are things you do. Here is a list of some verbs. Some adverbs are listed to the right of the verbs. Adverbs are words that are added to verbs to explain them better.

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Other Parts of Speech

Prepositions

Prepositions link nouns to other words. Examples of prepositions are: to, or, in, with

Conjunctions

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

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.

More About Nouns

Nouns can be classified as: Noun, Proper Noun, Pronoun. Nouns are what we’ve been studying. They just name a thing like desk, door, floor. Proper Nouns name a specific person or thing. Examples of Proper Nouns: Tam, John, Lee. – They are proper nouns because they list a specific person.

Other examples: Houston, San Diego, Arlington, Dallas, San Pedro – all proper nouns because they name specific cities-not just city or town.

Pronouns – pronouns are words that can be substituted for nouns. Examples of pronouns are:

He, she, it, them, you, me, I – These words are pronouns because they can be substituted for the regular noun. If you have been talking about a desk and you say “it is big” – “it” is a word substituted for “desk”. If you’ve been taking about “Lee” you can say “He” – a pronoun substituted for “Lee”- the proper noun. If you have been talking about “Tam” you can say “she” a pronoun substituted for the Proper noun “Tam”.

Singular and plural nouns. Singular nouns talk about one thing. Plural nouns speak about two or more things or people.

Handwriting

Practice handwriting so you can get faster.

Math

Additions, Multiplications and Subtractions

Solve the following problems:

Addition (Plus)

Addition
+	25	24	29	48	25	22	40	35	27
	16	36	38	17	36	44	65	25	31
	41	60	67	65	61	66	105	60	58
	24	58	37	26	328	273	273	5,111
	34	59	33	29	24	24	7	2,345
	58	117	70	55	352	297	280	7,456

Remember to carry a one on top.

Multiplication (Times)

Multiplication
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Subtraction (Minus)

Subtraction
–	47	23	47
	-22	-13	-41
	25	10	6

Please do not use the computer, phone or add wrong numbers during this lesson.

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Fractions

A fraction is one number over the other like this:

Numerators and Denominators

Number	Numerator and Denominator
1	is the numerator
3	is the denominator
1	is the numerator
11	is the denominator

Common Denominators

Fraction Number	Result
½ + 1/2	2/2	Equal
¼ + ¼ + 1/4	3/4	Smaller
½ + 1/4	6/8	Smaller

Only if you change ½ to the equivalent expression 2/4 thus: 2/4 + ¼ = ¾

Multiplication Tables

Study the multiplication tables.

Word Problems

Set up the following problem:

1. If you go to the store and buy 4 loaves of wheat bread and 3 loaf of the bread flies out the window on the way home. How many loaves of bread do you have left?
   1. 1
   2. 2
   3. 3
   4. 4
2. If you bake 12 donuts and somebody gives you 3 donuts, how many donuts do you have?
   1. 10
   2. 15
   3. 12
   4. 13
3. Twelve people go into the nursery home. Five die. One more comes in, but two others catch the disease and die.  How many people are left?
   1. 10
   2. 7
   3. 6
   4. 9
4. You drive to the store at 40MPH. A man is walking toward you at 10MPH. How fast are you approaching the man?
   1. 30MPH
   2. 29MPH
   3. 5MPH
   4. 27MPH

Reading Comprehension

Read the following story. Identify nouns, pronouns, proper nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, interjections, prepositions and conjunctions. Then guess the theme of the story.

A Wise Counting

Emperor Akbar was in the habit of putting riddles and puzzles to his courtiers. He often asked questions which were strange and witty. It took much wisdom to answer these questions.

Once he asked a very strange question. The courtiers were dumb folded by his question.

Akbar glanced at his courtiers. As he looked, one by one the heads began to hang low in search of an answer. It was at this moment that Birbal entered the courtyard. Birbal who knew the nature of the emperor quickly grasped the situation and asked, “May I know the question so that I can try for an answer”.

Akbar said, “How many crows are there in this city?”

Without even a moment’s thought, Birbal replied “There are fifty thousand five hundred and eighty-nine crows, my lord”.

“How can you be so sure?” asked Akbar.

Birbal said, “Make you men count, My lord. If you find more crows it means some have come to visit their relatives here. If you find a smaller number of crows it means some have gone to visit their relatives elsewhere”.

Akbar was pleased very much by Birbal.’

Social Studies

Developments in American Economics

The American Revolution was fought in part as a protest against unfair taxation of the American colonies by Great Britain. Once the colonies gained independence and established the United States of America, the country was formed as a common market with no internal taxes or taxes restricting trade between the states. Although this system encouraged the free and open exchange of goods and services, it did nothing to regulate and fund the new, struggling federal government.

Alexander Hamilton, the first US secretary of treasury, proposed the creation of a government sponsored bank and tariffs on foreign imports to encourage economic growth. Furthermore, he consolidated the debt amassed by the colonies during the Revolutionary War, building national credit and encouraging investment in the federal government through the sale of bonds. There was much resistance to Hamilton’s plan of a strong central bank to regulate the economy, most notably from Thomas Jefferson, who favored a smaller, weaker federal government. However, conflict between France and England, and later the war of 1812, forced many forced many opponents of the national bank to support the institution as a stabilizing force in times of crisis. Thus, the American economy became a compromise, in which states were encouraged to trade goods freely and without restriction, while the federal government, through the national bank, would regulate the economy overall.

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Credits

• This lesson was originally made with LibreOffice Writer by John M. Harpster.
• Formatted with Notepad++ for space removal.
• Made and published to PDF with LibreOffice and Microsoft Word by John T. Harpster.

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