Hello, Friends.
We had a light week of classes, but never fear...All classes meet this week. Don't forget to Zoom in! We did celebrate in Galentine's Day style in person with delicious snacks and a White Elephant gift exchange. It is nice to get together and celebrate.
- American Sign Language: Tuesday, 5:00-6:00 PM, Zoom: Bring your list of similar signs
- American English: Thursday, 9:00-11:00 AM, Zoom: T Words and perfect tenses.
- American Accent Training: Thursday, 9:30-11:30 AM, Zoom: Bill's Tip and pronunciation precision
- Kid's Conversation: Friday, 4:30-5:00 PM, Zoom: Tell about an inventor: what makes this inventor interesting?
Superbowl
Superbowl Sunday crept up on us. The big event begins 6:00 PM EST on Fox. The Eagles are playing the Chiefs.
Superbowl is a unique celebration of American culture writes Joey Pagano. Click on the link to read this entertaining opinion piece. Joey is spot on about the appeal of this game. This piece is also chock full of wonderful and colorful terms to spice up your vocabulary.
Valentine's Day Isn't Just for Sweethearts
Valentine's Day with hearts and flowers and chocolate is our opportunity to show our affection to our friends as well as our sweethearts. You may not celebrate with spaghetti, but you can get into the spirit with this classic Disney scene from Lady and the Tramp. School kids exchange little cards. Older kids can buy flowers or Valograms at school to be delivered to friends in class.
This next section of The Declaration of Independence itemizes the grievances the colonists had against England. Would these grievances be tolerated today?
--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
crept up on us: sneak up stealthily
Galentine's Day: This term was added to the Miriam Webster Dictionary in September of 2022. The official date is March 13. Read all about it!
grievances: injustice
today: nowadays, at this time
tolerated: endure or allow
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