This is the lesson from 17 December 2018. This mostly covers about the second part of the Korean war in the history section.
Lesson
- Lesson of Monday, December 17, 2018
- Third Week, Day Ten
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 small woman slowly lifted the weight and reached over her head.
What is the subject?
Singular vs. Plural nouns
Singular nouns are nouning that name one thing such as:
- ball, house, floor, wall, lamp, television, disk
Plural nouns are nouns that name multiple things such as:
- balls, houses, floors, walls, lamps, televisions, disks
Singular vs. Plural verbs
Singular verbs go with singular nouns such as:
- the ball flies; the house stands; the wall falls; the lamp darkens; the disk spins
Plural verbs go with plural nouns such as:
- the balls fly; the houses stand; the walls fall; the lamps darken; the disks spin
Notice that plural nouns usually end in ‘s’ while plural verbs don’t, singular verbs usually end in’s’.
Examples of Singular Nouns
Car, Train, Table, Desk, Wall, Tornado, Person, Floor, Lamps Head
Notice that most singular nouns have do not have an ‘s’ at the end.
Examples of Singular Verbs
Runs, walks, talks, looks, throws, tosses, flies, waves, sings, turns.
Notice that most singular verbs have an ‘s’ at the end. Also notice that some singular verbs have extra letters other than the ‘s’ added, and may be spelled a little differently.
- Example: flies.
Examples of Plural Nouns
Cars, Trains, Tables, Desks, Walls, Tornadoes, People, Floors, Lamps, Heads
Notice that most, but not all, plural nouns have an ‘s’ at the end. The noun, ‘people’ is an example of a noun that doesn’t have an ‘s’ at the end.
Examples of Plural Verbs
Run, walk, talk, look, throw, toss, fly, wave, sing, turn.
Notice that most plural verbs do not have and ‘s’ at the end.
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. | ||
| 3 | is the numerator | = 1 |
| 3 | 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. | ||
| 7 | 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.
The Eyes Have It
- Text source is from https://americanliterature.com/author/philip-k-dick/short-story/the-eyes-have-it
It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another planet. As yet, I haven’t done anything about it; I can’t think of anything to do. I wrote to the Government, and they sent back a pamphlet on the repair and maintenance of frame houses. Anyhow, the whole thing is known; I’m not the first to discover it. Maybe it’s even under control.
I was sitting in my easy-chair, idly turning the pages of a paper backed book someone had left on the bus, when I came across the reference that first put me on the trail. For a moment I didn’t respond. It took some time for the full import to sink in. After I’d comprehended, it seemed odd I hadn’t noticed it right away.
The reference was clearly to a nonhuman species of incredible properties, not indigenous to Earth. A species, I hasten to point out, customarily masquerading as ordinary human beings. Their disguise, however, became transparent in the face of the following observations by the author. It was at once obvious the author knew everything. Knew everything–and was taking it in his stride. The line (and I tremble remembering it even now) read:
…his eyes slowly roved about the room.
Vague chills assailed me. I tried to picture the eyes. Did they roll like dimes? The passage indicated not; they seemed to move through the air, not over the surface. Rather rapidly, apparently. No one in the story was surprised. That’s what tipped me off. No sign of amazement at such an outrageous thing. Later the matter was amplified.
…his eyes moved from person to person.
There it was in a nutshell. The eyes had clearly come apart from the rest of him and were on their own. My heart pounded and my breath choked in my windpipe. I had stumbled on an accidental mention of a totally unfamiliar race. Obviously non-Terrestrial. Yet, to the characters in the book, it was perfectly natural–which suggested they belonged to the same species.
And the author? A slow suspicion burned in my mind. The author was taking it rather too easily in his stride. Evidently, he felt this was quite a usual thing. He made absolutely no attempt to conceal this knowledge. The story continued:
…presently his eyes fastened on Julia.
Julia, being a lady, had at least the breeding to feel indignant. She is described as blushing and knitting her brows angrily. At this, I sighed with relief. They weren’t all non-Terrestrials. The narrative continues:
…slowly, calmly, his eyes examined every inch of her.
Great Scott! But here the girl turned and stomped off and the matter ended. I lay back in my chair gasping with horror. My wife and family regarded me in wonder.
“What’s wrong, dear?” my wife asked.
I couldn’t tell her. Knowledge like this was too much for the ordinary run-of-the-mill person. I had to keep it to myself. “Nothing,” I gasped. I leaped up, snatched the book, and hurried out of the room.
In the garage, I continued reading. There was more. Trembling, I read the next revealing passage:
…he put his arm around Julia. Presently she asked him if he would remove his arm. He immediately did so, with a smile.
It’s not said what was done with the arm after the fellow had removed it. Maybe it was left standing upright in the corner. Maybe it was thrown away. I don’t care. In any case, the full meaning was there, staring me right in the face.
Here was a race of creatures capable of removing portions of their anatomy at will. Eyes, arms–and maybe more. Without batting an eyelash. My knowledge of biology came in handy, at this point. Obviously, they were simple beings, uni-cellular, some sort of primitive single-celled things. Beings no more developed than starfish. Starfish can do the same thing, you know.
I read on. And came to this incredible revelation, tossed off coolly by the author without the faintest tremor:
…outside the movie theater we split up. Part of us went inside, part over to the cafe for dinner.
Binary fission, obviously. Splitting in half and forming two entities. Probably each lower half went to the cafe, it being farther, and the upper halves to the movies. I read on, hands shaking. I had really stumbled onto something here. My mind reeled as I made out this passage:
…I’m afraid there’s no doubt about it. Poor Bibney has lost his head again.
Which was followed by:
…and Bob says he has utterly no guts.
Yet Bibney got around as well as the next person. The next person, however, was just as strange. He was soon described as:
…totally lacking in brains.
There was no doubt of the thing in the next passage. Julia, whom I had thought to be the one normal person, reveals herself as also being an alien life form, similar to the rest:
…quite deliberately, Julia had given her heart to the young man.
It didn’t relate what the final disposition of the organ was, but I didn’t really care. It was evident Julia had gone right on living in her usual manner, like all the others in the book. Without heart, arms, eyes, brains, viscera, dividing up in two when the occasion demanded. Without a qualm.
…thereupon she gave him her hand.
I sickened. The rascal now had her hand, as well as her heart. I shudder to think what he’s done with them, by this time.
…he took her arm.
Not content to wait, he had to start dismantling her on his own. Flushing crimson, I slammed the book shut and leaped to my feet. But not in time to escape one last reference to those carefree bits of anatomy whose travels had originally thrown me on the track:
…her eyes followed him all the way down the road and across the meadow.
I rushed from the garage and back inside the warm house, as if the accursed things were following me. My wife and children were playing Monopoly in the kitchen. I joined them and played with frantic fervor, brow feverish, teeth chattering.
I had had enough of the thing. I want to hear no more about it. Let them come on. Let them invade Earth. I don’t want to get mixed up in it.
I have absolutely no stomach for it.
Themes
Read the above and guess the theme:
- Julia was being cut apart by an alien.
- The reader was taking things literally that were not meant to be taken literally. Aliens had invaded.
- The reader was a woos.
- None of the above.
Social Studies
Geography and World History
Cause and Effect
An action, or cause, has an effect, which is the outcome of an occurrence. Another way to understand cause and effect is that cause answers the question why and effect answers the question what happened. There are key words that you might read in a passage that clue you in on a cause and effect. These words and phrases include because, since, as a result, and therefore.
History
The Korean War (Part II)
- Text source is from English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
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- Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
After the first two months of war, South Korean and U.S. forces rapidly dispatched to Korea were on the point of defeat, forced back to a small area in the south known as the Pusan Perimeter. In September 1950, an amphibious UN counter-offensive was launched at Incheon, and cut off many North Korean troops. Those who escaped envelopment and capture were forced back north. UN forces rapidly approached the Yalu River—the border with China—but in October 1950, mass Chinese forces crossed the Yalu and entered the war. The surprise Chinese intervention triggered a retreat of UN forces which continued until mid-1951.
In these reversals of fortune, Seoul changed hands four times, and the last two years of fighting became a war of attrition, with the front line close to the 38th parallel. The war in the air, however, was never a stalemate. North Korea was subject to a massive bombing campaign. Jet fighters confronted each other in air-to-air combat for the first time in history, and Soviet pilots covertly flew in defense of their communist allies.
The fighting ended on 27 July 1953, when an armistice was signed. The agreement created the Korean Demilitarized Zone to separate North and South Korea, and allowed the return of prisoners. However, no peace treaty was ever signed, and according to some sources the two Koreas are technically still at war, engaged in a frozen conflict. In April 2018, the leaders of North and South Korea met at the demilitarized zone and agreed to sign a treaty by the end of the year to formally end the Korean War.
As a war undeclared by all participants, the conflict helped bring the term “police action” into common use. It also led to the permanent alteration of the balance of power within the United Nations, where Resolution 377—passed in 1950 to allow a bypassing of the Security Council if that body could not reach an agreement—led to the General Assembly displacing the Security Council as the primary organ of the UN.
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.