1. Wednesday, March 8th
Today’s Learning Target: I will define, understand and identify different categories of nouns in their natural habitat
Today’s Essential Questions How do you define a noun? How are nouns categorized? How well can you apply these definitions and categorizations to identifying different types of nouns?
No homework tonight, except reading logs of course

2. Today’s Riddle
I am the first on Earth, The second in Heaven, I appear two times in a week, you can only see me once in a year Although I am in the middle of the sea. What am I?

3. Today you young scholars will…
Define the concept of a “noun”
Apply your understanding of “noun” to identifying them in different sentence structures
Define and identify different categories of nouns
Practice identifying and categorizing nouns

4. And now the moment you’ve been waiting for…
Nouns? What are thoooooose?

5. Noun
A person, place, thing, or idea Examples: panda vine happiness Dunkin Donuts

6. Proper and common
A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place, thing or idea. Proper nouns are capitalized. Common nouns are any nouns that do not name a specific person, place, thing or idea. Common nouns are not capitalized

7. How Noun Brown Cow, How Noun Brown Cow
Categorize the following nouns as either common or proper Car School Monday Tohickon Middle School Desk Today Jackie Robinson Backyard September Mexico McDonald’s Teacher

8. Thursday, March 9th
Copy the following in your notebook (after you turn your reading log in): Abstract Noun A noun denoting an idea, quality, concept, feeling or state rather than a concrete object:

9. Examples of Abstract Nouns
Love
Anger
Hate
Peace
Loyalty
Integrity
Pride
Courage
Deceit
Honesty
Trust
Compassion
Bravery
Misery
Childhood
Knowledge
Patriotism
Friendship
Brilliance
Truth
Charity
Justice
Faith
Kindness
Pleasure
Liberty
Freedom
Delight
Despair
Hope
Awe
Calm
Joy
Reality
Wisdom

10. a collection of things taken as a whole.
Collective noun-
a collection of things taken as a whole.

11. Examples of collective nouns
Army
Audience
Band
Board
Cast
Class
Committee
Company
Crowd
Family
Faculty
Group
Jury
Navy
Puble
Plethora
School
Society
Staff
Team
Troupe

12. Identify and label the nouns in the following sentences
1. Becky went with her sisters to Disneyland on Friday.
2. My youngest son is in Brazil until September.
3. Mr. Smith works with his wife in Los Angeles.
4. Love could bring marriage to Mark and Terri.

13. Identify and label the nouns in the following sentences
1. The teacher told the student that a person should always be loyal.
2. People with perseverance will be successful in life.
3. I bought a new pen at the drugstore across the street.
4. The man said to the policeman that he had not seen the accident.

14. Singular and Plural nouns
Singular Nouns-
Plural Nouns-

15. Making Nouns Plural Formed by adding s to the singular form Examples:
Cheerleader- cheerleaders
Wheel- wheels

16. Making Nouns Plural
Plural nouns ending in ch, sh, s, z, and x is made by adding es to the singular
Examples:
Lunch- lunches
Dish- dishes
Mess-messes
Buzz- buzzes

17. Making Nouns Plural
The plural of common nouns that end in y with a consonant letter just before the y are formed by changing the y to i and adding es.
Examples:
Fly- flies
Cry- Cries
Key-Keys

18. Make the common nouns plural
computer secretary
child energy
Parent farm
effort worker
puzzle mathematics
branch deer
school tax

19. Thursday, March 9th
Noun Closure: In your notebook, write a sentence that uses each type of noun correctly (no combining, four sentences total please) Proper Noun- Common Noun- Abstract Noun- Collective Noun-