LA: Monday, October 8, 2018 Handouts: * Grammar #8 (Nouns: Proper and Common) Homework: * Grammar #8 (Nouns: Proper and Common) 3. Assignments due: * None

Starter #1 Take out your comp book. Turn to the first blank page Starter #1 Take out your comp book. Turn to the first blank page. In the upper right hand corner, write the following: Mon., Oct. 8, 2018 QW #20: I’m Invisible! Then copy the bold print portion of this prompt on the top lines: If you could be invisible for one whole day, what would you do? Describe what would happen. Remember to write in complete sentences, avoiding fragments and run-ons. If you are not sure how to spell a certain word, just sound it out and circle it.

Lesson Goal: Learn to distinguish between common nouns and proper nouns. Outcomes: Be able to . . . Define “noun” and name the two basic kinds of nouns. Define and identify “common nouns.” Define and identify “proper nouns.” Apply capital letters correctly in sentences containing proper nouns.

Starter #2 Today we begin a mini-unit in Grammar on Nouns Starter #2 Today we begin a mini-unit in Grammar on Nouns. Let’s see what you have learned already. A noun is . . . a person, place, or thing   All nouns could be divided into what two categories? common nouns and proper nouns What are common nouns? any person, place, or thing What are proper nouns? a particular person, place, thing or idea, designated by a capital letter

Starter #2 continued. . . . Common Noun Proper Noun   Person student Jan Lopez police officer Captain Michael Miller Place school Clark Middle School park Tom Sawyer Park Thing poem “Jabberwocky” painting Mona Lisa