This is the lesson from 28 November 2018. This covers about the U.S. entering World War II following the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor in the History section.
Lesson
- Lesson of Wednesday, November 28, 2018
- Fourth Week, Day Fourteen
English
Sentences
Sentences are built like this:
Sentence
| Subject | Predicate |
| Noun | Verb |
| Adjectives | Adverbs |
Parts of Speech
Nouns
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
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.
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 |
| 10 | is the numerator | Larger than 1 |
| 7 | is the denominator | |
| Notice that if the numerator is larger the fraction is greater than (>) 1. | ||
| 16 | is the numerator | = 2 |
| 8 | is the denominator | |
Some fractions may be reduced as the one above has been.
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 Dog Faced Man
The fellows name was Douglas McNab. He was a programmer for the Saturn Software company and he was working on a project with five other people. John Candy was the leader of the project and Douglas had the least experience of the whole crew. He had hired on the month before and was slowly getting up to speed on the current project. It was becoming apparent to the crew that Douglas was one of the smartest people on the entire crew. No one had wrapped their head around this project as rapidly as Douglas had, and he was going to become indispensable to getting the project done under the time that was allowed for it. But he was butt ugly. He looked like a bull dog and people would make fun of his appearance behind his back.
Time went on and predictions made earlier proved accurate. Douglas had been the reason the project met all the time and testing guidelines and the crew was always being complimented for their work. But, still, behind his back they were all making fun of his appearance.
Themes
What is the theme?
- Software is indispensable for the business world.
- Predicting software goals is important.
- Working for a software company is a good job.
- Even though you are intelligent and competent people can still make fun of you.
- None of the above.
Social Studies
Geography and World History
Evidence of Evolution
Charles Darwin was the most famous person to expound the Theory of Evolution. He was chastised for his beliefs because his theory was contradicted by stories in the Bible. He seemed to be saying God didn’t make mankind in His image as the people that believed the Bible is the literal word of God believe. The theory is still controversial today for the same reason a lot of people rejected it when it was proposed.
World War II
The United States Enters the War
The U.S. was reluctant to enter WWII in the beginning. On December 7, 1941 things changed when an invading Japanese air force attacked the Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. The attack was a total surprise and on that Sunday morning 20 Naval vessels were either sunk or damaged and 2400 sailors were killed. On that day Franklin D. Roosevelt famously remarked “This day will live in infamy”.
The United States invaded Normandy on June 6, 1944 marking the date that The U.S. entered the European theater on the ground. The day has been dubbed “D-Day”. It was the largest invasion of land from sea-bound vessels in the history of the world.
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.