This is the lesson from 29 October 2018. This covers about the first part of the American economics.

Lesson

Lesson of Monday, October 29, 2018

Fifth Week, Day Seventeen

English

Sentences

Sentences are built like this:

		Sentence
	Subject		Predicate
Noun	Adjectives		Verb	Adverbs

Nouns and Adjectives

Nouns are things. Here is a list of some nouns. Adjectives explain nouns more succinctly.

Verbs and Adverbs

Some adjectives are listed next to the nouns 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.

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:

Tom, Jane, Lynn – They are proper nouns because they list a specific person.

Other examples:

San Francisco, Washington D.C., Fort Worth, Fort Wayne – 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 tree and you say “it is big” – “it” is a word substituted for “tree”. If you’ve been taking about “Lynn” you can say “He” – a pronoun substituted for “Lynn”- the proper noun. If you have been talking about “Tom” you can say “he” a pronoun substituted for the Proper noun “Tom”.

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

Fractions

A fraction is one number over the other like this:

Number	Numerator and Denominator	Result
2	is the numerator	Smaller than 1.
3	is the denominator
1	is the numerator	Smaller than 1.
10	is the denominator

Notice that if the numerator is larger the fraction is greater than (>) 1. Some fractions may be reduced as the one above has been.

Multiplication Tables

Study the multiplication tables and addition tables on the dining room table.

Reading Comprehension

Read the following story and guess the them:

Gambling

The noise of all the slot machines was music to the ears of Theo Ray. Theo could be seen four to five days a week at the Four Winds Casino in New Buffalo, Michigan giving his dollars to the slot machines. The slot machines always thanked Theo for his big donations. Theo always walked away with a feeling of disgust after losing big.

Theo only lived a short distance away from the casino in nearby Niles, Michigan. Twenty-seven years of marriage had aged Theo beyond his years. The arguing and wrangling with his wife Virginia Ray constantly over family affairs had undoubtedly taken a toll on the spirit of Theo Ray. The casino was his discotheque. It was a place where Theo could take refuge from his wife and just relax.

Theo was accustomed to losing $700.00 on any given day on the slot machines at the casino. This was always Theo’s limit at the casino.

Avery text messaged Theo on a balmy Thursday in mid-summer begging him to go to the casino with him. Avery was six feet and four inches tall, slender, clean shaven, and one hell of a debater! Avery could debate Theo for twelve hours straight about virtually any subject. This day there was no debating as Theo quickly agreed to accompany Avery to the Four Winds Casino.

The casino was having a once in a lifetime slot machine promotion. The jackpot was ten million dollars on the Magic Eight slot machines. There were twenty-one Magic Eight slot machines throughout the casino but only one of the machines would hit for the ten million dollars.

By the end of the day Avery had won sixty-five hundred dollars while Theo exceeded his daily limit by gambling away five thousand dollars. Theo had to explain to his wife Virginia why he raided their joint savings account and blew the money on the one arm bandit.

Social Studies

Developments in American Economics (Part I)

When the Industrial Revolution spread to the United States and England, the American government invested millions of dollars in infrastructure improvements. These included building the intercontinental railroad, a railway connecting the eastern and western United States, and the building of a canal system throughout the east coast and Great Lakes region. The US economy was further improved in 1793 when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, a machine that could quickly and easily separate cotton from its seeds. Suddenly the cost of cotton production dropped, and southern plantations worked by slaves, began exporting enormous amounts of cotton to mills in Europe. The boom in cotton production led to a land rush into the west while greatly increasing the demand for slave labor. Disputes over the spread of slave labor in western territories led directly to the Civil War in the 1860s.

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.

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