1. Day 35 – I have a dream, Nonfiction Review, Adjectives and Adverbs

2. Objectives:
Analyze and evaluate answers to the nonfiction common assessment.
Understand and identify the role adjectives and adverbs play in a sentence.
Homework:
Check your grades. If you need tutoring, you need me.
Check absences. You can’t miss more than 10 in any class.

3. Agenda Warm Up I Have a Dream Adjectives and Adverbs
Practice with Adjectives
Nonfiction Review
Closure

4. Warm up-
Write down a description of your favorite commercial. Is it effective at selling its message? How so? What was it claiming? Which persuasive appeal did it use to prove the claim?

5. I Have A Dream- page 660
Read MLK’s speech and complete a google doc which includes your annotations for argumentation and parallelism.
When you are finished work within your academic groups to discuss the appeals which were used.
You have 15 minutes to complete this portion of the assignment.

8. Grammar Time
Take notes- Everything is important!

9. Adjectives

10. Adjectives An adjective describes a noun or a pronoun. Example:
An adjective answers:
What kind?
Which one?
How many?
Example:
happy dog
tired boy
seven girls

11. To find an adjective you need to locate the nouns first.
Three happy children played at the park.
The donkey stepped on my large hat.
The child was brave.

12. Articles are the adjectives a, an, and the
Articles are the adjectives a, an, and the. A and an are indefinite articles. The is the definite article.
Possessive pronouns, such as my and our, can be considered adjectives because they modify nouns. Similarly, possessive forms of nouns, such as Roger’s and the captain’s, can also be considered adjectives.
A proper adjective is formed from a proper noun and begins with a capital letter.
Cervantes was a Spanish writer. The Korean restaurant is very popular.

13. Let's Practice

14. Can you find the adjectives?
First find the nouns…
We saw the gray elephant at the zoo.
Then ask, “What words describe the nouns?”
WHAT KIND?
WHICH ONE?
HOW MANY?

15. Can you find the adjectives?
First find the nouns…
The rabbit followed the slow turtle.
Then ask, “What words describe the nouns?”
WHAT KIND?
WHICH ONE?
HOW MANY?

16. Can you find the adjectives?
First find the nouns…
He found two pennies on the ground.
Then ask, “What words describe the nouns?”
WHAT KIND?
WHICH ONE?
HOW MANY?

17. Can you find the adjectives?
First find the nouns…
The children heard the loud bell.
Then ask, “What words describe the nouns?”
WHAT KIND?
WHICH ONE?
HOW MANY?

18. Can you find the adjectives?
First find the nouns…
The brown dog growled at the tall man.
Then ask, “What words describe the nouns?”
WHAT KIND?
WHICH ONE?
HOW MANY?

19. AN ADVERB:
Modifies an active verb or a verb phrase by expressing manner, place, time, degree, or number.

20. TYPES OF ADVERBS:
Simple
Interrogative
Negative

21. EXAMPLES: SIMPLE: She moved quietly. (Manner and tell how)
I waited there for an hour. (Place and tell where)
You may leave soon. (Time, tells when)
I called you once. (Number, tells how many)
He sat very still. (Degree, tells how much)

22. Interrogative Adverb Introduces a sentence that asks a question
where, when, why and how

23. EXAMPLES: Interrogative: When will you return?
How is the trunk being sent?

24. Negative Adverb Denies or contradicts a statement
no, not , never, only, scarcely and hardly
Note: two negative adverbs should not be used together.

25. EXAMPLES: Negative - I can scarcely believe my eyes. ( correct)
- I haven’t no more sea shells. (incorrect)

26. Familiar Adverbs to Know
almost finally seldom
Unusually certainly hardly
quite so usually
just rather very
rather fairly nearly
Too scarcely well

27. Let’s try some together…

28. 1. The weight lifter grunted and groaned trying to lift the heavy barbell.
2. The hungry boy ate a juicy hamburger and a tossed salad.
3. My little brother loves Chinese food.
4. Where did you get that beautiful coat?
5. The designers changed the basic design of the popular model.
6. A good hiking boot needs a sturdy sole.
7. We watched the little silvery fish jump completely out of the water.

29. Adjectives Activity
Take out a piece of paper and remove everything else from your desk. You will have 30 seconds to write down as many adjectives to describe the picture on the following slide. When the alarm rings, put down your pen/pencil. No words will be counted after the 30 seconds have past. When you are ready, put your head down on the desk. I will tell you to look at the screen.

30. Adjectives Activity

31. Pair Exercise
Using your new found skill for identifying adjectives, download the document from Google classroom and complete it with your partner.
Once finished, compare your answers with a pair next to you.

32. Nonfiction Review Log onto classroom.
Click the Nonfiction test and you will be able to see your answers. DO NOT TRY TO CHANGE THEM.
Get into your 4 person groups and compare your answers.
Just like the close reading, find a group response.
DO NOT WRITE ON THE TESTS

33. Answer Key:

34. Closure – 3,2,1 Write 3 sentences and identify the adjectives used.
Write 2 study tips you need to implement for the midterm.
Write 1 sentence explaining the difference between adjectives and adverbs.