This is the lesson from 18 December 2018. This mostly covers about the third part of the Korean war in the history section.
Lesson
- Lesson of Tuesday, December 18, 2018
- Third Week, Day Eleven
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 |
7 | is the numerator | Larger than 1. |
6 | is the denominator | |
Notice that if the numerator is larger the fraction is greater than (>) 1. | ||
11 | is the numerator | = 1 |
11 | is the denominator | |
If the numerator = the denominator the fraction = 1. | ||
2 | is the numerator | Smaller than 1. |
9 | is the denominator | |
Notice that if the numerator is smaller the fraction is greater than (<) 1. | ||
9 | 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.
A Jury of Her Peers
- Text source is from https://americanliterature.com/author/susan-glaspell/short-story/a-jury-of-her-peers
When Martha Hale opened the storm-door and got a cut of the north wind, she ran back for her big woolen scarf. As she hurriedly wound that round her head her eye made a scandalized sweep of her kitchen. It was no ordinary thing that called her away–it was probably further from ordinary than anything that had ever happened in Dickson County. But what her eye took in was that her kitchen was in no shape for leaving: her bread all ready for mixing, half the flour sifted and half unshifted. She crawled into the car next to the woman.
“The country’s not very pleasant this time of year,” Mrs. Peters at last ventured, as if she felt they ought to be talking as well as the men.
Mrs. Hale scarcely finished her reply, for they had gone up a little hill and could see the Wright place now, and seeing it did not make her feel like talking. It looked very lonesome this cold March morning. It had always been a lonesome-looking place. It was down in a hollow, and the poplar trees around it were lonesome-looking trees. The men were looking at it and talking about what had happened. The county attorney was bending to one side of the buggy, and kept looking steadily at the place as they drew up to it.
“I’m glad you came with me,” Mrs. Peters said nervously, as the two women were about to follow the men in through the kitchen door.
Even after she had her foot on the door-step, her hand on the knob, Martha Hale had a moment of feeling she could not cross that threshold. And the reason it seemed she couldn’t cross it now was simply because she hadn’t crossed it before. Time and time again it had been in her mind, “I ought to go over and see Minnie Foster”–she still thought of her as Minnie Foster, though for twenty years she had been Mrs. Wright. And then there was always something to do and Minnie Foster would go from her mind. But now she could come.
She had killed Tom because he was unfaithful to her and now, she was going to face a jury of her peers. She was confident. If there were women on the jury, people she considered her peers they would understand her actions.
There were, indeed, four women on the jury. She had gone in confident that those women would understand and vote to acquit her. So, she was shocked when she was actually convicted of the murder.
As she began her life sentence, she still did not understand how a jury that included women could convict her of murdering her unfaithful husband.
Themes
Guess the closest option for a theme for this story.
- Murdering an unfaithful husband should be all right.
- Tom should have left the city to do his bad deeds.
- One cannot always count on other people to understand your bad decisions.
- Women should kill unfaithful husbands.
- None of the above.
Social Studies
Geography and World History
Cause and Effect
It is important to understand that sometimes one event does not cause another event to happen, but rather is associated with another factor that caused the event. It may be a coincidence that one event occurred at the same time another unrelated event. Incorrectly labeling an unrelated event as a cause is called reaching a false conclusion. You need to determine if two events are related to one another. For example, if you watered a plant once a week but it wilted and died in a month, is the true cause a lack of watering or something else? What if the plant was a cactus? Perhaps the temperature was too cold for a cactus to survive.
History
The Korean War (Part III)
- 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.
In South Korea, the war is usually referred to as “625” or the “6–2–5 Upheaval” (6.25 동란 (動亂), yook-i-o dongnan), reflecting the date of its commencement on 25 June.
In North Korea, the war is officially referred to as the “Fatherland Liberation War” (Choguk haebang chǒnjaeng) or alternatively the “Chosǒn [Korean] War” (조선전쟁, Chosǒn chǒnjaeng).
In China, the war is officially called the “War to Resist America and Aid Korea” (simplified Chinese: 抗美援朝战争; traditional Chinese: 抗美援朝戰爭; pinyin: Kàngměi Yuáncháo Zhànzhēng),[57][58] although the term “Chaoxian (Korean) War” (simplified Chinese: 朝鲜战争; traditional Chinese: 朝鮮戰爭; pinyin: Cháoxiǎn Zhànzhēng) is also used in unofficial contexts, along with the term “Han (Korean) War” (simplified Chinese: 韩战; traditional Chinese: 韓戰; pinyin: Hán Zhàn) more commonly used in regions such as Hong Kong and Macau.
In the U.S., the war was initially described by President Harry S. Truman as a “police action” as the United States never formally declared war on its opponents and the operation was conducted under the auspices of the United Nations. It has been referred to in the English-speaking world as “The Forgotten War” or “The Unknown War” because of the lack of public attention it received both during and after the war, and in relation to the global scale of World War II, which preceded it, and the subsequent angst of the Vietnam War, which succeeded it.
Credits
- This lesson was originally made with LibreOffice Writer by John M. Harpster.
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- This was made and published to PDF with LibreOffice Writer and Microsoft Word by John T. Harpster.