1. Language Arts: Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Handouts: * Grammar #31 (Articles and Demonstratives)
Homework: * Grammar #31 (Articles and Demonstratives) * If you don’t finish in class, it is homework.
Assignments due: * Grammar #30 (Adjectives and Proper Adjectives)

2. 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:
Wed., Dec. 5, QW #30: Trade Me!
If you could trade places with a friend or a relative and become part of that person’s family, who would you trade places with? (If you are perfectly satisfied with your own family, then imagine yourself doing this for just a short period of time.) Tell what friend or relative you would trade places with, explain why you chose that family, and describe what you think life would be like.
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.

3. Lesson Goal: Learn about articles and demonstratives.
Outcomes: Be able to . . .
Define the term “article” and name the three articles in our English language.
Explain how to distinguish between using “a” or “an” in any sentence.
Define the term “demonstrative” and name four commonly used demonstrative adjectives.
Explain how to distinguish between using this and that and between using these and those.
Define “demonstrative pronoun” and explain how it differs from a demonstrative adjective.

4. Examples: the Wyoming foothills Chinese checkers
Starter #2 Yesterday we learned about adjectives. What’s an adjective?
An adjective modifies (tells more about) a noun. 
An adjective always answers one of three questions. What are those questions?
Which one?
What kind?
How many?
What two kinds of adjectives did we examine yesterday?
Predicate adjective: When the noun/subject is followed by a linking verb and the adjective appears in the predicate.
Example: The puppy became frisky.
Proper adjective: An adjective formed from a proper noun It always begins with a . . .
CAPITAL LETTER
Examples: the Wyoming foothills Chinese checkers

5. Starter #3
Today we are going to learn about “articles” and “demonstratives.”
In grammar, when we’re talking about parts of speech, what is an “article”?
An “article” is a special kind of adjective, and we have only three in our English language:
a, an, the
The article the describes one specific item or items. Example:
The program was canceled because of the snowstorm.
The articles a and an refer to any one item of a group.
Use a before words that begin with a consonant.
Use an before words that begin with a vowel.
Example: A giraffe is an elegant animal.

6. This and that are singular. These and those are plural.
Starter #4 Demonstratives are words used to point out something. Words like this, that, these, and those are demonstrative adjectives.
This and that are singular.
These and those are plural.
I always used to wonder . . .
How do you know whether to use the word this or the word that?
How do you know whether to use the word these or the word those?
This and these refer to things that are close.
Read this book. He washed these apples. [close to the speaker]
That and those refer to things that are at a distance.
Take that train. Those boys are on the other team [at a distance from the speaker]
Demonstratives often appear before the noun they modify, but they can stand alone.
A demonstrative that is used by itself is a demonstrative pronoun.
Give this to your sister. I like those the best.