Homeschool - Term 1 2023

Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow. Remember to always answer

questions in a complete sentence.

                                                                

                                                                       Poverty

Five times a day, the crowd of students flocked around the window through which the caretaker

sold her cakes, then broke up in the yard to play and walk about, while heartily biting into long

pieces of a type of gingerbread with jam.

And five times a day I was forced to endure this spectacle without participating in it. I never had

a cent to my name. I was forced to stand in the background, and the sight of those cakes the

pupils bought in a joyous uproar and devoured greedily and freely about me, overwhelmed me

with passionate desire.

Thus I began filling myself with water from the tap, in a corner of the yard and, every now and

then, I returned to it, trying to drown my stomach to keep it quiet. Similarly, I tried to hide

myself in the crowd to escape Bussi. I had neither the feeling or strength to talk. It was already

quite a problem looking calm, indifferent, even filled, like everybody else. But Bussi managed to

find me. I saw him; he had seen me; impossible to get away. He came up to me holding a long

piece of golden-brown bread, its white, foam-light inside cut in two to receive fried eggs. He

looked more impressive to me with this large loaf in his hand than Asselm, whom I had known

in my childhood in Petit-Morne. I found it terrible.

But Bussi was a kind friend. Seeing that I hadn’t anything to eat, he offered me his bread in a

natural gesture.

‘Break it.’

‘No,’ I said, ‘thank you.’

He pointed his bread at me. That golden-brown and white bread, spongy and stuffed full of fried

eggs, smelling good.

No, I was adamant in my refusal and with an air of indifference; for, at his insistence, my hunger,

overcame or driven back by some indescribable pride risen up in the face of what could be a

gesture of pity on the part of this boy, my hunger no longer existed. But he broke the bread

himself and handed me a piece, a large piece, all full of egg and yolks.

‘Come on now, don’t make such a fuss.’

I put both my hands behind my back and with a quiet smile, I persisted with my refusal.

Then, to end it all, Bussi shrugged his shoulders, did a little pirouette, bit deep into his bread and

we spoke about other things. We walked about the yard. The walk relaxed me from the struggle I

had been through.

All the while he was speaking, Bussi was eating.

After a while, cutting short our conversation, he said to me;

‘You didn’t want to share my snack with me, and I have too much. My mama always gives me

too much to eat.’

Indeed, looking fully satisfied, he showed me a large hunk of his over-sized sandwich and, with

a gesture of disgust, let it fall, catch it, before it hit the ground, with a kick that propelled it

towards the corner of the yard.

And I found enough control over myself to appear indifferent to his gesture and to smile

foolishly as if to approve the skill with which he had booted home the bread.

But at the moment it wasn’t hunger with which I struggled- rather against a sudden and wild

impulse to let fly, also, with all my strength, a kick at Bussi. For, what he had just done

resounded in me as if it was I who had received it, right in my behind; or as if it was a little boy,

very much like me, whose behind Bussi had kicked in my presence.

Thereupon, Bussi took from his trouser pocket his pretty purse and with an ‘excuse me’ ran off

towards the caretaker’s stall. Then he returned greedily biting into a slice of cake two fingers

thick, and this time, dispensing with the useless trouble of offering me any, once more continued

our conversation, which went on until the end of recess.

Afterwards, like everybody else, we dashed off to the urinals, then to the taps, Bussi to wash his

fingers, dropping into the sink the rest of cake; and I, to take my last fill of water.

Questions:

1. Where is the incident taking place?

2. Who are the main characters in the experience?

3. What activity is taking place among the students?

4. Why is the narrator forced to “endure the spectacle?”

5. What does the expression “overwhelmed me with passionate desire?”

6. Why does the narrator try to drown his stomach?

7. In your own words explain how Bussi show his kindness to the narrator.

8. Explain the point at which the narrator is offended by Bussi and describe why he feels

offended. 

USE YOUR CALCULATORS!

1. A regular work week is 40 hours. Overtime pay is time and one-half.

 Isabel drives truck for $8.70 an hour. If she worked 40 hours, what would her gross

earnings be for one week?

2. Manuel is a word-processor operator. He makes $11.50 an hour. 

Determine his gross earnings for a week if he worked 36 hours. 

3. Kacy is paid $14.50 per hour to mow lawns. How much will he receive for a job

 taking 2 and a half hours?

4. Nadine works 3 days per week, for 8 hours per day. She earns $15.70 an hour. 

How much will she earn for a week of work?

5. Boris works from 8.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., 5 days a week. 

If he earns $12.15 per hour, how much will he receive for the week?

6. A ski instructor earns $997.50 for a 35-hour week. What is her hourly rate of pay?

                                                                        STOP HERE

Title: The Effects of Drugs on Young People

Activity 1: Watch the video, the answer the questions that follow. 

1. Why do you think it is considered 'common' for youth to experiment?

2. Give 2 examples of 'hard drugs' mentioned in the video. 

3. Why did Jeremiah and his friends smoke and drink? (2 reasons)

4. What is K2 and what effect did it have on Jeremiah?

5. What are the dangers of taking unprescribed drugs?

Activity 2: Find and draw an image of alcohol. (rum bottle, wine bottle, beer, etc.)

Write 5 effects of alcohol abuse. (Like a poster)

Problem Solving - Wages & Salaries

1. Travis works in a sports shop and gets a basic pay of £4·50 per hour. If he worked 35 hours last week, how much was he paid ?

2. Simone works as a radiographer. Her hourly rate of pay is £14·50. 

She worked for 30 hours last week. How much did she earn?

3. Jane works for an Insurance Company and her friend Pete is a mechanic. Jane earns £8·70 per hour whereas Pete is paid £7·90 per hour. Last week, Jane worked 30 hours and Pete 34 hours. 

(a) Calculate Jane’s pay and Pete’s pay for the week. 

(b) How much LESS did Jane earn than Pete ?

4. Fraser’s payslip last week showed he earned £322. He knew he had worked for 35 hours. Calculate Fraser’s hourly rate.

5. Danny works as a cook in a bistro. He earned £545·60 last week for his 44 hours.

 (a) Calculate his hourly rate of pay.

 (b) This week he only worked for 30 hours. How much pay is he due this week ?

6. Polly’s monthly pay at The Art Shop is £584. Calculate her annual (yearly) pay.

7. Craig is a consultant at a privately owned hospital. He is paid £7250 per month. Calculate Craig’s annual pay. 

8. Debbie and her sister Ashley are both dress designers. Debbie is paid monthly and earns £1280·50 per month. Ashley is paid weekly and gets £295·25 per week.

 (a) Calculate Debbie’s annual pay. 

(b) Calculate Ashley ’s annual pay. 

(c) Who’s annual pay is greater, and by how much ?

TUESDAY, OCT 10

1. A new smartphone costs $6000 and depreciates at 22% annually. Determine the value of the smartphone at the end of each year over a 2-year period.

2. A car is valued at $240,000. If it depreciates at 15% annually. Calculate the value of the car after 3 years.

3. A yacht is bought for £40000. It depreciates at a rate of 5% per year. Find its value after 2 years.

4. Jade bought a sports car for £350,000. It depreciated by 16.5% in one year. Calculate its value after 1 year. 

5. Greg bought a new car for £ 18,000. In the first year, the value of the car depreciates by 30%. In the second year, it depreciates by 14%. 

Work out the value of the car after two years. 

6. 

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Circle the word that has the same meanings as the word underlined.

1. Pedestrians should look both ways before crossing the street. A. crosswalks     B. walkers     C. stoplights     D. parrots

2. When I fell off the trampoline, I fractured my arm and wore a cast. A. rested         B. broke         C. avoided         D. looked at

3. The class decided to exhibit the science project during Parents‟ Night. A. lose         B. eat         C. trade         D. show

Circle the correct meaning of the underlined word.

(1) I was so parched, I drank a large glass of water.        A. hungry        B.  thirsty        C. sleepy

(2) The delightful aroma of the food caused my mouth to water. A. smell            B. colour            C. wealth

(3) The long walk up the hill was very grueling. A. loud                B. tiring               C.  easy

(4) Does it irritate you when your sister teases you? A. bother            B. break           C.   build

(5) The parking lot was so congested, I could not find anywhere to park. A. empty           B. hot                  C. crowded  

Circle the word that has the same meanings as the word underlined. 1. Pedestrians should look both ways before crossing the street. A. crosswalks B. walkers C. stoplights D. parrots 2. When I fell off the trampoline, I fractured my arm and wore a cast. A. rested B. broke C. avoided D. looked at 3. The class decided to exhibit the science project during Parents‟ Night. A. lose B. eat C. trade D. show Write a replacement for the underlined words.

1. The tornado's wrath destroyed many homes within the state of Kansas. __________________________________________________________________ 2. The treacherous rain fell upon the city for five straight days. __________________________________________________________________ 3. The boy vanished from his house without any signs or warnings. __________________________________________________________________ 4. The two neighbors had a large dispute over who owned the apples. __________________________________________________________________ 5. The students chattered during the assembly

COMMISSION WORKSHEET

1. John is selling sets of knives and makes a 10% commission on all sales. What would his commission be on the sale of a $3250 set of knives?

2. Another real estate agent sold a house for $315,000 last week. If her commission is 1.25% of the selling price of the home, find the amount of her commission.

3. Tough question alert: 

5) Roberta makes $9 an hour plus a 12.5% commission selling jewelry.  How much does she earn on an 8-hour shift in which she sells $380 worth of jewelry?

4. An 4. A salesman gets 11% commission on his month’s sales of $54,000. What’s his commission?

A v m5. A salesman makes 8.5% commission on monthly sales of $9,572. What’s her

commission?

6. An 6. A worker gets 8 ½ % commission on monthly sales of $3,552. His salary is $350/mth.

What is his pay?

Homework: https://sweeney67.weebly.com/uploads/3/8/0/2/38022605/11.19_commissions_worksheet.pdf

Friday, October 20, 2023

Guidance: https://youtu.be/uKxwd95trjQ?si=TjS5ITM5v9ljliFP

A student speaks: https://youtu.be/z4kms8Zjnm0?si=sC55E7bvAmyHibOD

Additional resource: https://barbadostoday.bb/2023/10/12/students-faint-traumatised-as-masked-men-invade-school/

Assignment: You are a student of the Springer Memorial School. You were an eyewitness to the failed intruder drill. Write a report to the Chief Education Officer to explain what you saw. 

 Oct 25, 2023

Topic: Slangs & Proverbs

Slang is an informal mode of speech. It is more common in spoken language than in written communication. Slang expressions are colourful and witty, but sometimes considered to be undignified. 

Examples: The term “lit” refers to something that is amazing

 Did you see her new car? It was lit.

Example: The term “crib” refers to someone’s living quarters such as an apartment or home.

 Hey, you want to spend some time with me and my friends at my crib?  

A proverb is a traditional saying which offers advice or presents a moral in a short or pithy manner. 

Example: “The poor carpenter blames his tools” Meaning: Take ownership of your mistakes instead of finding blame elsewhere.

 

Explain in your own words as clearly as you can, the following proverbs and use them in a sentence. 

HIRE PURCHASE

Under a HIRE PURCHASE contract, a purchaser pays an initial deposit and takes the item away.

He or she then makes regular repayments (installments). The installments include both repayment of the debt and the interest being charged by the vendor. At the end of the period of the agreement, the purchaser owns the item. 

1. Conor buys a new refrigerator. The advertised price was $2700. Conor agrees to pay a 20% deposit and monthly repayments of $115

over 2 years (24 months). 

a) Calculate the deposit

b) Calculate the total of the installments

c) Calculate the total HP price

2. The cash price of a computer is $2400. It can also be purchased on the following terms: 25% deposit and payments of $70 per week for 3 years. 

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Exercise A

Rewrite the underlined saying in your own words, showing its correct meaning.

Example: Yesterday, it rained cats and dogs.

Answer: Yesterday, it rained heavily.

1. The teacher instructed the impudent child to hold her tongue.

2. Hercules was lion-hearted.

3. The policeman found the evidence and smelt a rat.

4. She accidentally let the cat out of the bag.

5. He was an impatient man and put the cart before the horse.

6. The beggar led a dog’s life.

7. The defeated athlete threw in the towel.

8. The leader decided to take the bull by the horns.

9. The disobedient student acted the goat to receive attention.

10. The competitor found his opponent’s Achilles’ heel.

11. At the start of the year, the boy decided to turn over a new leaf.

Exercise C - Writing an Eyewitness Report 

An eyewitness report presents the facts only about a incident. It must not include any opinions. 

You must use the letter format we practiced last week and you must use FORMAL ENGLISH. No abbreviations or slang is allowed. 

Assignment: Your teacher left the room at lunch time for 20 minutes. There were 3 sgudents in the class. On her return, the window was broken. Write an eyewitness report to her explaining exactly how this window came to be broken and who was responsible.

Activity 1:https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=27139

Example: 

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                                Simple Interest

Interest is the cost you pay to borrow money or the compensation you receive for lending money. You might pay interest on an auto loan or credit card. 

FORMULA:

I = (Principal x Rate x Time) ÷ 100

I = Simple interest

P = Principal amount or the original balance

R = Annual interest rate

T = Loan term in years

Example

 A student gets a loan to pay one year of college tuition. The original amount is $18,000. The loan's annual interest rate is 6%. The student gets a great job after graduation, cuts spending, and repays the loan over 3 years. How much interest will the student pay in total?

1) If Michael invests $2000 in the bank at a rate of 5.5% for 6 years how much  interest will he make?

 2) Kelsey takes out a loan for $6000 to start a business after high school.  The bank  charges her 8% interest for the loan.  After 5 years how much interest will be added  on to the loan?

 3) What will the total value of an investment of $5000 be if it has an interest rate of  7% and is invested for 20 years?

4) Kristina received $125 for her birthday. Her parents offered to pay her 3.5% simple interest per year if she would save it for at least one year. How much interest could Kristina earn?

5)Mai put $4250 in the bank at 4.4% interest annually. How much was in her account after 7 years?

Read the passage carefully, then answer the questions which follow:

I never knew her real name and it is quite likely that she did have one, though I never heard her called anything but Gold Teeth. She did, indeed, have gold teeth. She had sixteen of them. She had married early and she had married well, and shortly after her marriage she exchanged her perfectly sound teeth for gold ones, to announce to the world that her husband was a man of substance.

Even without her gold teeth my aunt would have been noticeable. She was short, scarcely five feet, and she was fat, horribly, monstrously fat. If you saw her in silhouette you would have found it difficult to know if she was facing you or whether she was looking sideways.

She ate little and prayed much. Her family being Hindu, and her husband being a pundit, she, too was an orthodox Hindu. Of Hinduism she knew little apart from the ceremonies and taboos, and that was enough for her. Gold Teeth saw God as a power, and religious ritual as a means of harnessing the power for great practical good, her good.

I fear I may have given the impression that Gold Teeth prayed because she wanted to be less fat. The fact was that Gold Teeth had no children and was almost forty. It was her childlessness, not her fat, that oppressed her, and she prayed for the curse to be removed. She was willing to try any means, any ritual, any prayer- in order to trap and channel the supernatural power.

And so it was that she began to indulge in surreptitious Christian practices. She was living at the time in a country village called Cunupia, in County Caroni. Here the Canadian Mission had long waged war against the Indian heathen, and saved many. But Gold Teeth stood firm. The minister of Cunupia expended his Presbyterian piety on her; so did the headmaster of the Mission school. But all in vain. At no time was Gold Teeth persuaded even to think about being converted. The idea horrified her. Her father had been, in his day, one of the best-known Hindu pundits, and even now her husband’s fame as a pundit, as a man who could read and write Sanskrit, had spread beyond Cunupia. She was in no doubt whatsoever, that Hindus were the best people in the world, and that Hinduism was a superior religion. She was willing to select, modify and incorporate alien eccentricities into her worship; but to abjure her own Faith- Never! 

1. What particular feature made Gold Teeth noticeaable?

A. her silhouette

B. her name

C. her religion

D. her physical built

2. She was “an orthodox Hindu” means that

A. she held the accepted views of Hindu religion

B. she was critical of her Hindu religion

C. she never bothered too much about the teachings of Hindu religion

D. she used her religion to suit her purposes.

3. “Taboos” are

A. restrictions

B. rites

C. festivals

D. prayers

4. Gold Teeth replaced her natural teeth with gold ones because

A. she wanted shining teeth

B. gold is long- lasting

C. she thought it was a sign of wealth

D. at an early age it was a fashion to wear gold

5. “Her husband was a man of substance”. He was

A. free and open

B. a jeweler

C. of great renown

D. wealthy

6. The Canadian Mission had a long waged war against the Indian heathen. Here the writer refers

to

A. a conflict between the Canadian Mission and the Hindu

B. the attempt of the Canadian missionaries to convert heathens to Christianity

C. a long and bitter war between the Canadian Mission and the heathen

D. the vain attempt of the Canadian Mission to influence Gold Teeth to change her religion

7. Which of the following statements is not true?

A. Gold Teeth was not convinced by the attempts of ministers to convert her.

B. She felt Hinduism was a superior religion

C. She was critical of other religions

D. In spite of her religious background she did not know very much about her religion.

8. The writer’s tone can best be described as

A. critical

B. abusive

C. humorous

D. indignant

■ Identifying and Using Comparative and Superlative Adjectives 

For each sentence, write the adjective form that completes the sentence correctly. 

 1. My new blanket is (softer, softest) than my old one. ______________________________ 

2. Kim is the (older, oldest) of my three sisters.____________________________________ 

3. Sirius is the (brighter, brightest) star in the southern sky. __________________________ 

4. Geneva’s memory is (worse, worst) than mine, but Barb’s is the (worse, worst) one of all. ______________________________

 5. The (most unusual, unusualest) costume was awarded the prize. ____________________ 

6. Darrin’s interest in conservation is (more strong, stronger) than most people’s. _______________________________________________________________________ 

7. The (more beautiful, most beautiful) time of day at the lake is the morning. _______________________________________________________________________ 

8. Euclid Avenue is (longer, more long) than Prospect Avenue. _______________________

 9. Charisse has little interest in ballet, but Rita is even (less interested, least interested) than Charisse. ____________________________________________________________ 

10. I think that my roses are the (prettiest, more pretty) flowers in my garden.

Word Families

Word List

deport         diction         patriotic         prescribe

dictate         inscription         portable         scribble

dictator         paternal

Write the vocabulary word that best completes the sentence.

1. If you ________________ your speech, I will type it for you.

2. When the storm knocked out our power last summer, we had to borrow my uncle’s

________________ electric generator.

3. The football player decided to ________________ his autograph quickly on the napkin.

4. Tabitha’s ________________ grandmother was an underwater explorer and scientist.

5. The doctor decided to ________________ a painkiller for Marcie’s sprained ankle.

6. The speaker was quite easy to understand because his ________________ was perfect.

7. According to my grandfather, it is every person’s ________________ duty to join the armed

forces and fight for the nation.

8. People marched in the streets in protest when the president seized complete control of the

country and became a ________________.

9. The ________________ on the ancient tombstone was worn and hard to read.

10. The judge was forced to ________________ the foreign workers since they were in the

country illegally. 

• Kinetic energy is the energy of motion.
• Potential energy is stored in an object based on its position.
• Energy can change between potential and kinetic based on an object's motion.

Kinetic and Potential Energy Practice Problems 

Classify the following as a type of potential energy or kinetic energy (use the letters K or P)

1. A bicyclist pedaling up a hill _____     2. An archer with his bow drawn _____

3. A volleyball player spiking a ball _____     4. A baseball thrown to second base _____

5. The chemical bonds in sugar _____             6. The wind blowing through your hair _____

7. Walking down the street _____     8. Sitting in the top of a tree _____

9. A bowling ball rolling down the alley _____     10. A bowling ball sitting on the rack _____

What is compound interest?

Compound interest means that every time interest is paid on an amount the added interest will also receive interest thereafter.

Compound interest is calculated on the principal (original) amount and the interest already accumulated on previous periods. 

For example, take the amount of money in a savings account.

If you put £100 in an account with an annual interest rate of 10%, the value of the money in the account will increase by 10%  in year one.

The new amount of money in the account will be £110 or 110% of the original.

In year two the value of the money in the account will increase by 10% again.

The new amount would be £121. This is because we have increased £110 by 10%.  

Find the total value of the investment after the time given.

1. $1,500 at 7% compounded annually for 2 years

2. $55,000 at 16% compounded annually for 2 years

3.  $1,240 at 8% compounded annually for 2 years

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Science

Read this passage from the text and answer the questions that follow.

Heat

Heat is the transfer of thermal energy between objects that have different temperatures. Thermal energy always moves from an object with a higher temperature to an object with a lower temperature. When thermal energy is transferred in this way, the warm object becomes cooler and the cool object becomes warmer. Sooner or later, both objects will have the same temperature. Only then does the transfer of thermal energy end.

Assume that a cool spoon is placed in a cup of steaming hot coffee. Once in the coffee, the spoon quickly heats up. The fast-moving particles of the coffee transfer some of their energy to the slower-moving particles of the spoon. The spoon particles start moving faster and become warmer, causing the temperature of the spoon to rise. Because the coffee particles lose some of their kinetic energy to the spoon particles, the coffee particles start to move more slowly. This causes the temperature of the coffee to fall. Before long, the coffee and spoon have the same temperature.

1. If two objects have the same mass, the object with the higher temperature always

a) has greater thermal energy.

b) has higher specific heat.

c) feels warmer.

d) two of the above

2. Which of the following statements about temperature is true?

a) Temperature measures heat.

b)Temperature measures kinetic energy.

c) Temperature is the same thing as heat.

d) Temperature is the same thing as thermal energy.

3. If a bucket full of water and a cup full of water have the same temperature, then the water in the

a) bucket and cup have the same thermal energy.

b) bucket has greater thermal energy.

c) cup has lower average kinetic energy.

d) cup has lower specific heat.

4. The thermal energy of an object depends on its

a)mass.

b) temperature.

c) specific heat.

d)two of the above

5. If you put a cool spoon into a cup of hot coffee, the temperature of the spoon rises because

a) thermal energy is transferred from the coffee to the spoon.

b) specific heat is transferred from the coffee to the spoon.

c) particles of the spoon gain kinetic energy.

d) two of the above

6. Which of the following materials has the greatest specific heat?

a) iron

b) sand

c) wood

d) water

7. A material with greater specific heat

a) warms up more quickly.

b) requires less energy to get hot.

c) always has a higher temperature.

d) none of the above

Match each definition with the correct term.

Terms

a. thermal energy

b. heat

c. temperature

d. thermometer

e. mass

f. Celsius

g. specific heat

Definitions

_____ 1. device for measuring temperature

_____ 2. total kinetic energy of particles of matter

_____ 3. amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1 °C

_____ 4. average kinetic energy of particles of matter

_____ 5. scale for measuring temperature

_____ 6. transfer of thermal energy between objects with different temperatures

_____ 7. measure that affects the thermal energy of matter but not its temperature

Transfer of Thermal Energy 

The heat source for our planet is the sun. Energy from the sun is transferred through space and through the earth's atmosphere to the earth's surface. Since this energy warms the earth's surface and atmosphere, some of it is or becomes heat energy. There are three ways heat is transferred, into the atmosphere: 

1. radiation         2. Conduction         3. convection 

4.