1. August 27-31

2. Nouns name a person, place, thing, or idea. Ex: Raymond, New York City, fence, or happiness

3. Copy the following sentence and underline the nouns. Raymond lives in a suburb of New York City. After you have underlined the nouns, answer two of the following questions. Write your answers in the grammar section of you notebook. 1). Would you back down from an argument just to keep the peace? 2). Would you spend time with someone you didn’t like just because your mother asked you to? 3). If you were choosing people to play on a ball team, would you pick your best friend instead of the best player in order to avoid hurting your friend’s feelings?

4. Proper Nouns A proper noun names a specific person, place, thing, or idea. EX: Squeaky, Harlem, May Day Race, or December Common Nouns A common noun any person, place, thing, or idea. EX: girl, city, ribbon, happiness.

5. Write a four sentence response to the following prompt: Think about your friends and family. Are you similar to them in how you act, what you wear, how you talk, and your beliefs? Write yes or no and explain your answer. Once you have finished writing four sentences to this prompt, go back through and underline the common nouns once and the proper nouns twice. Have a friend check your work.

6. Concrete nouns name things that you can see or touch. EX: document, crown, snow, buffalo. Abstract nouns name ideas qualities, or feelings that cannot be seen or touched. EX: truth, courage, time, history, heritage.

7. Prompt: Courage is considered an abstract noun. It is abstract because we cannot touch it or see it. However, we can see the result of courage. Think of a time when you witnessed someone being courageous (or when you were courageous). Write a four sentence response about that time.

8. Directions: complete numbers 1-3. You do NOT have to write the questions. 1). Define the term noun. 2). Explain the difference between common nouns and proper nouns. 3). Explain the difference between concrete and abstract nouns.

9. Copy down the following passage from the short story, “Raymond’s Run” by Toni Cade Bambara. Underline the nouns in the passage and then tell what type of nouns they are (i.e. proper, common, abstract, concrete). I don’t have much to do around the house like some girls. My mother does that. And I don’t have to earn my pocket money by hustling; George runs errands for the big boys and sells Christmas cards. An anything else that’s got to get done, my father does. All I have to do in life is mind my brother Raymond.

10. Take a clean sheet of paper out of your notebook. Put the proper heading on your paper (upper left corner). It should look like this: Name Subject/Class Period Teacher Date Take out your notes on nouns and review them.