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substance and ready to be
swallowed
One of the roles of the gastric juices in the stomach is to:
Kill any bacteria in the food
Absorb nutrients
Turn the food into bile
Absorb bile
What type of language is Polish?
A Romance Language
A West Slavonic Language
An East Slavonic Language
A North Slavonic Language
How do you say “Where is the
toilet?” in Polish?
Gdzie jest toaleta?
Po ile to jest?
Ile to kosztuje?
None of the above
    ANSWER KEY: c, d, d, a, c, c, d, a, b, a

Lesson 7
    HISTORY: The Reformation
Power of the Church, Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, The Reformation Spreads Throughout the Land,
John Calvin, The Day of Placards, The Counter-Reformation
    LANGUAGE ARTS: Writing
Logographies, Syllabaries, Left-Handedness, Right-Handedness, Cross-Dominance, Ambidexterity
    MATH: Operations
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Squaring and the Square Root, Factorials
    SCIENCE: Tissues
What Is Tissue?, Epithelial Tissue, Connective Tissue, Muscle Tissue, Nervous Tissue, Organs
    FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Russian
The Origins, Cyrillic, Peter the Great Reforms the Language, A Need to Change the Language, The Soviet Union’s Spelling Reform of 1918, Useful Russian Phrases
LESSON 7A
THE REFORMATION
    Power of the Church By the beginning of the sixteenth century, Roman Catholicism was the only religion in Western Europe. The Church believed that it alone had the power to interpret the Bible. However, with the Renaissance and the invention of the printing press, people started believing the Church had too much control. In the fourteenth century, a man named John Wycliffe became the first to translate the Bible from Latin into English. This idea was soon picked up by Jan Hus of Bohemia, who began preaching his own sermons.
WRITING
    Logographies Today, the main logographic systems of writing are found in Chinese and Japanese languages. Logograms are written characters or symbols that represent a word. One major disadvantage to a system like this is the amount of characters one has to know and how long it would take to learn so many words. For this reason, there are no languages that are fully logographic, and they all have some phonetic components.
OPERATIONS
    Addition Addition is literally the process of adding, or combining, one thing to another thing. So in the problem 3 + 6, you are adding or combining the two numbers together, leaving you with an end result of 9. The plus sign (+) is actually derived from an abbreviation of the Latin word
et
, which means “and.” The plus sign first appeared in print in 1489 in Johannes Widmann’s
Mercantile Arithmetic,
or
Behende und hubsche Rechenung auff allen Kauffmanschafft
.
TISSUES
    What Is Tissue? In the body, specific cells group together to perform a certain specialized function, creating tissue. When many tissues group together to carry out a specific function, it becomes an organ. In animals, there are four types of tissue found in the body: epithelial tissue, connective tissue, muscle tissue, and nervous tissue.
RUSSIAN
    The Origins In the sixth century, the Slav people migrated from Old Poland and gradually occupied the Balkans. By the tenth century, Western, Southern, and Eastern Slavonic had emerged as three similar, yet distinct, language groups. Eastern Slavonic is a direct ancestor of what would become Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Russian. The languages shared many grammatical rules, and were able to share one written language (and only a written language), known as Old Slavonic.
LESSON 7B
THE REFORMATION
    Martin Luther’s 95 Theses In 1517, Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, became fed up with the Church’s policies of selling indulgences and misleading people. Luther wrote a series of 95 theses against the practices of the Church (such as indulgences), as well as new ideas for a better religion (such as rejecting the authority of the pope). Luther nailed his 95 theses on the door of the church at Wittenberg.
WRITING
    Syllabaries A syllabary is a set of written