1. Person, Place, Thing or Idea

2.  The historian wrote about many famous. womencolorfulplaces eventsagoideas didpretty

3.  A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.  There are two basic types of nouns: common nouns and proper nouns  Common: names any person, place, thing, or idea  Proper: names a specific person, place, thing, or idea

4.  Proper nouns:  The first word is always capitalized  If there are multiple words, all words are capitalized  Common nouns:  Can be either concrete or abstract

5.  Concrete nouns: name things that you can see or touch  Document, crown, snow, museum, buffalo  Abstract nouns: name ideas, qualities, or feelings that cannot be seen or touched  Truth, courage, time, history, heritage

6.  Get a Writer’s Choice Book from my cabinet (green books)  Turn to page 382  Complete Ex. 1 #’s 1-10  Complete Ex. 2 #’s 1-10.  You do not have to write out the sentence.  We will go over answers when you have completed them.

7.  Nouns can be either singular or plural  Singular means one  Child, dog, monkey, sheep, calf, mouse, daddy  Plural means more than one  Children, dogs, monkeys, sheep, calves, mice, daddies

8.  For most nouns, add –s to the end to make it plural  Dog -> dogsshovel -> shovels  For nouns ending in s, ss, x, z, ch, sh, add –es to make the noun plural  Box -> boxescouch -> couches  For nouns ending in y with a consonant before the y, change the y to i and add –es  Army -> armiesbaby -> babies  For nouns ending in y with a vowel before the y, just add –s  Monkey -> monkeysturkey -> turkeys

9.  Some nouns are irregular. This means their spelling changes completely and you do not simply add –s or –es to make them plural.  For most nouns that end in f or fe, f or fe becomes ves  Elf -> elves loaf -> loaves thief -> thieves  For most nouns that end in o, add s  Kangaroo -> kangaroos piano -> pianos video -> videos

10.  For certain nouns that end in a consonant and o, add es  Hero -> heroes potato -> potatoes volcano -> volcanoes  For some nouns, the spelling changes completely  Child -> children mouse -> mice tooth -> teeth  For some nouns, the singular and plural is the same  Deer, fish, sheep, species

11. Singular Plural analysis analyses appendix appendices bison bison cactus cacti calf calves child children elf elves foot feet goose geese knife knives leaf leaves life lives loaf loaves man men mouse mice person people scissors scissors tooth teeth

12.  Nouns made of two or more words  Three types of Compound Nouns 1. One word: housekeeper, football, bookbag, 2. Hyphenated: runner-up, mother-in-law, great-grandmother 3. More than one word: ice cream, dining room, maid of honor

13.  To make One Word Compound nouns plural, follow the rules previously mentioned  Hyphenated Plural: Make the most important part of the compound noun plural  More than One Word: Make the most important part of the compound noun plural.

14.  Turn to page 384  Complete Exercise 3 #’s 1-20.  We will go over when completed.

15.  Names who or what owns or has something  Examples: Rita has a book on history. Rita’s book is new. Read the books. Note the books’ major themes

16.  Most singular nouns: Add an apostrophe (‘) and –s (‘s)  a girl a girl’s name  Singular nouns ending in –s: Add an apostrophe and –s (‘s)  Lewis Lewis’s explorations  Plural nouns ending in –s: Add an apostrophe  animals animals’ habits  Plural nouns not ending in –s: Add an apostrophe and –s  women women’s history

17.  Acquire your Writer’s Choice Book  Turn to page 386  Complete Ex. 6 #’s 1-10. You do not have to write out the sentence.  We will go over when completed.

18.  Names a group that is made up of individuals  Examples of Collective Nouns family, group, flock, jury, herd  Collective Nouns need to show agreement with the verb in the sentence  Singular Noun: -s on the verb  Plural Noun: no –s on the verb  Hint: if you can sub IT for collective noun, then its singular. If you can sub THEY for collective noun then its plural

19.  Grab a Writer’s Choice Book to practice identifying collective nouns and verb agreement.  Turn to page 390  Complete Ex. 10

20.  A noun that is placed next to another noun to identify or add information about it. James Madison’s wife Dolley was a famous first lady.  Appositive phrase is a group of words that includes an appositive and other words that describe the appositive. Madison, our fourth president, held many other offices.

21.  Appositive phrase is usually set off my commas however if the appositive is needed to identify the noun or if it is a single word no commas needed. Madison’s friend Thomas Jefferson was president before him. Madison’s father, James Madison, was a plantation owner.

22.  Get your Writer’s Choice Book  Turn to page 392.  We are going to complete Ex. 11 together as a class.  If you want another example then write one in your notebook.