This is the lesson from 10 December 2018. This covers about English, Math and Parts of Speech. It had an error once when it spelled bog instead of gig.
Lesson
- Lesson of Monday, December 10, 2018
- Second Week, Day Five
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 big ball slowly rolled and reached the bottom.
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 |
| 11 | is the numerator | Larger than 1. |
| 6 | is the denominator | |
| Notice that if the numerator is larger the fraction is greater than (>) 1. | ||
| 4 | is the numerator | = 1 |
| 4 | is the denominator | |
| If the numerator = the denominator the fraction = 1. | ||
| 5 | is the numerator | Smaller than 1. |
| 6 | is the denominator | |
| 4 | 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.
I’m Being Stalked by the Avon Lady
- Text source is at https://nancystohlman.com/2013/05/28/im-being-stalked-by-the-avon-lady/
At first it wasn’t so bad. She’d show up in her pencil skirts and French manicures and support hose and I just thought it was good customer service. But soon I started noticing little extras inside the plastic bags, weird hearts drawn next to her phone number, and then one morning I caught her peeking in my front windows when I didn’t have to be at work early. When I said “What are you doing?” she blushed and tried to hand me this month’s Birthstone Bracelet. It was green—August. I’m sure I’d never told her my birthday.
The next week she was back, delivering wrinkle creams in white paper bags. She rang my doorbell even though I hadn’t ordered anything. I stood on the other side of the screen suspiciously. “I wanted to give you some samples of our new bath elixir bulbs,” she said. Please. I cracked the door enough to grab one. “You just put them in the bath and they are so fantastic.” But her voice was shaky on the word fantastic and inside the bag was a note: Help me.
I thought about calling Avon Customer Service, but I decided to follow her instead. She unlocked a normal-looking two-story home and I saw a tiny basement window turn on. I got close enough to see the floor piled up with undelivered books and empty plastic baggies. I could hear muffled screaming and then a glass tube splattered against the wall, its contents oozing to the floor.
I returned after dark and positioned myself again by the tiny window; I tapped softly on the glass and she came, wearing the latest shade of Sassy Tangerine lipstick. “Take this,” she said, passing me a pair of 14 k Metallic Sweetheart earrings on sale this month only. “Hurry, they’ll be back soon,” she said, pushing the earrings through the bars.
The next day I saw her in the neighborhood delivering Avon books out of a little red wagon in her faux leopard print pumps. She was wearing sunglasses, a dark spot on her chin that had been shabbily concealed with new Day wear Delight All Day Foundation. I found myself hating her, hating all her stupid lipstick samples and her childish gullibility.
The next week there was a new lady, a bright smiled woman wearing a fuchsia two-piece suit and last season’s Whimsical Woods body fragrance. What happened to the other one? I asked. “She didn’t work out,” the new Avon lady answered.
Themes
Try to guess what this story is mainly about. Circle the closest answer:
- Avon makes good products.
- There was something fishy and illegal going on with this Avon outfit.
- Everyone should buy Avon products.
- Two-piece suits are fashionable apparel.
- None of the above.
Social Studies
Geography and World History
Natural Selection and Adaptation
Nature seems to select for the fittest organisms and to select against the less fit. However, fitness is not necessarily about strength and vigor. Evolutionary fitness is the ability to pass on your genes. The end result of evolution by natural selection is a population with adaptations or favorable characteristics that allow organisms to better survive and reproduce in a specific environment.
History
The Years After World War II (Part II)
United States
Building on the economic base left after the war, American society became more affluent in the postwar years than most Americans could have imagined in their wildest dreams before or during the war. Public policy, like the so-called GI Bill of Rights passed in 1944, provided money for veterans to attend college, to purchase homes, and to buy farms. The overall impact of such public policies was almost incalculable, but it certainly aided returning veterans to better themselves and to begin forming families and having children in unprecedented numbers.
Not all Americans participated equally in these expanding life opportunities and in the growing economic prosperity. The image and reality of overall economic prosperity–and the upward mobility it provided for many white Americans–was not lost on those who had largely been excluded from the full meaning of the American Dream, both before and after the war. As a consequence, such groups as African Americans, Hispano Americans, and American women became more aggressive in trying to win their full freedoms and civil rights as guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution during the postwar era.
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.