Language Arts: Thursday, April 4, 2019 Handouts: * Grammar #70 (Capitalizing Other Proper Nouns and Adjectives, Part 2) Homework: * Grammar #70 (Capitalizing Other Proper Nouns and Adjectives, Part 2) Assignments due: * Grammar #69 (Capitalizing Other Proper Nouns and Adjectives, Part 1)

Now write the first two lines below, then follow the directions. Starter #1: Do NOT take out your comp book.  Take out a blank sheet of notebook paper and create the following heading: First & Last Name LA 6-D or LA 6-M April 4, 2019 Assignment: Create a Quick Write Now write the first two lines below, then follow the directions. Dateline: __________ QW #60: _____________________________ Make up a Quick Write prompt, two to four sentences in length. Give it a title and write that title after QEW#60. If your QW prompt is so good that we use it in class, you will receive BONUS points.  You have five minutes to complete this. If you finish early, you may create additional Quick Writes to submit.

Lesson Goal: Learn about capitalizing other proper nouns and adjectives. Outcomes: Be able to . . . Distinguish between proper nouns and adjectives versus common nouns and adjectives. Identify proper nouns and adjectives and apply capitals to them. Identify the names of clubs, organizations, businesses, institutions, and political parties and apply capital letters to those names. Identify brand names and apply capitals to them but not to the nouns that follow them. Identify the names of important historical events and significant time periods and apply capital letters to those names. Identify the names of days of the week, months, and holidays and apply capital letters to them. Identify seasons and apply lower case to the names of those seasons.

Starter #2: Yesterday we learned four new rules for capitalization. . . . Capitalize proper nouns and adjectives but not common nouns and adjectives. Mark Klees a punctuation mark New York City a city in New York Capitalize the names of clubs, organizations, businesses, institutions, and political parties. Also capitalize brand names but not the nouns that follow them. the Rotary Club Girl Scouts of America Imperial Products, Inc. Rockefeller Foundation the Republican party Spinoff yarn

Starter #3: Remember to . . . Capitalize the names of important historical events and significant time periods. the Civil War the Ice Age summer Capitalize the days of the week, months of the year, and holidays, but do NOT capitalize seasons. Saturday August the Fourth of July

Starter #4: Today we will learn the final two rules. . . . Capitalize the first word, the last word, and all important words in titles. Charlotte’s Web Romeo and Juliet “The Ransom of Red Chief” “Old King Cole” Gone with the Wind Sesame Street National Geographic the New York Times Chapter 7 Capitalize the names of ethnic groups, nationalities, and languages, as well as proper adjectives formed from these names. Mexican Americans the Slavic countries speaking Portuguese Italian food