This is the lesson from 13 December 2018. This mostly covers about the Korean war in the history section.
Lesson
- Lesson of Thursday, December 13, 2018
- Second Week, Day Eight
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.
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.
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?
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.
These Are the Fables
- Text source is at: https://electricliterature.com/these-are-the-fables-amelia-gray/
WE WERE IN THE PARKING LOT OF A DUNKIN’ DONUTS IN BEAUMONT, TX when I told Kyle that I was pregnant. I figured I’d rather be out under God as I announced the reason for all my illness and misery.
I said to him, Well shoot. Guess we’re having a baby.
“Here’s the thing,” he said. “Your mama’s dead. And you’re forty years old. And I have a warrant out for my arrest. And I am addicted to getting tattoos. And our air conditioner’s broke. And you are drunk every day. And all I ever want to do is fight and go swimming. And I am addicted to Keno. And you are just covered in hair. And I’ve never done a load of laundry in my life. And you are still technically married to my drug dealer. And I refuse to eat beets. And you can’t sleep unless you’re sleeping on the floor. And I am addicted to heroin. And honest to God, you got big tits but you make a real shitty muse. And we are in Beaumont, Texas.”
“And,” Kyle added, “the Dunkin’ Donuts is on fire.”
I looked, and indeed it was. Customers streamed from the doors, carrying wire baskets of bear claws, trucker hatful of sprinkled Munchkins. “Get out of here,” one of the patrons said. “The damn thing is going up.” I said, Kyle. Listen. I said, we’re going to have to make it work, we’ll forge a life on our own and the children will lead us.
The wall of donuts had fueled a mighty grease fire. The cream-filled variety sizzled and popped and sprinkles blackened. Each donut ignited those within proximity. Their baskets glowed and charred. The coffee machine melted. The smoke was blue and smelled like a dead bird. I took Kyle’s coffee cup, popped the lid and vomited into it. I felt sadness, because all I had wanted that morning was a Munchkin and the absence of puke. I said that everything would be all right, that we were living in the best of all possible Dunkin’ Donuts parking lots. Kyle took my hand. We had to get out of there before the cops showed up to the fire and started checking IDs. He guided me to the car and opened my door. He bought half a dozen roses at the Kroger and laid them between us on the dash.
“Let’s get back to the Rio Grande,” Kyle said. He wanted to avoid Houston, which is sort of like wanting to avoid a talk from your mama when you come home with a Keno addict. I tipped my seat back and dug into sleep like sleep owed me an explanation. Kyle skimmed Houston on the tollway and headed for the coast, hitting cities with names like what you’d find across the spines on your grandma’s bookshelf. Blessing. Point Comfort. Sugar Land. Victoria. It’s how we ended up in the Days Inn in Corpus. Kyle examined a road map in his underpants while I took the bucket to the ice machine. A crowd of tourists were standing in the laundry room. They were speaking languages.
A young woman touched my ice bucket. “We are looking for where Selena was murdered,” she said. I said I didn’t know what she meant. “Selena the Tejano star,” the woman said. “Fifteen years ago at this very Days Inn. I am disappointed in you,” she said. One of the women was leaned up against the ice machine. She had her face pressed into her hands and her hands were pressed into the ice machine.
“They won’t tell us where,” the young woman said. “They changed the numbers on the doors so we won’t find out.” I said I didn’t know. She pulled me close. “There are secrets at this Days Inn,” she said. I said that there were secrets at every Days Inn. The ice machine was broken and the women wailed for unrelated reasons. “Our angel,” one woman said. She was holding a gilt-framed photograph of Selena singing on stage. She did look like an angel. I wanted to lie down on the laundry room floor. In the room, Kyle was eating a waffle in the shape of Texas. I stood in the open doorway.
“The first ingredient is corn syrup,” he said. He was a shadow in the back of the long room. He said, “The second ingredient is high fructose corn syrup.” I came in and locked the door. He was wearing his lucky buttoned shirt and a clean pair of pants. He had his shaving kit out on the table. The blade was drying and his face was shorn and cold. I told him he looked like he was getting ready for a funeral. They say that hotel room floors have the e. coli but I lay down anyway. Kyle came and settled near me. When he pressed his cheek against my belly, I could feel the machinations of his jaw grinding tooth on tooth. I said, these are the fables I will tell our children.
Themes
Guess the moral to this story:
- Motel floors are covered with e. coli
- A couple should be ready before having a baby.
- Shaving in a motel is dangerous.
- Waffles sometimes look like Texas.
- None of the above.
Social Studies
Geography and World History
Sequence and Cause and Effect
A part of studying science is discovering how and why things work. Scientist discover this by examining data and hypothesizing a reason for the results. They make observations and form opinions based on the information gathered. The results must make sense and explain how things work logically. Part of establishing how and why things work is by studying the order in which things happen and the factors associated with making something happen.
History
End of the Second World War and Proxy Wars
The end of the Second World War meant peace and prosperity for Americans and many other people around the world. Yet, for the Koreans, it represented difficulty. Korea was part of the Japanese empire throughout the first half of the 20th century. When Japan fell during the Second World War, Korea was suddenly free, and hoped to finally be able to decide the fate of their own country. Most Koreans campaigned for a unified state.
However, the United States and the Soviet Union had different ideas. The Soviets wanted to expand the sphere of communist influence into Korea. The United States countered by encouraging the establishment of democracy. Additionally, the United States stressed the importance of containment, which is a foreign policy used to prevent the spread of communism.
This disagreement would eventually lead to the Korean War. The Korean War was the first battle of the Cold War, and first major proxy war fought between the United States and a Soviet communist supported enemy. A proxy war occurs when one or more opposing powers instigates a war and then uses third parties to fight on their behalf. Other examples of proxy wars include the Vietnam War and the War in Afghanistan.
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.