August 27-31

Nouns name a person, place, thing, or idea. Ex: Rikki, India, snake, or bravery

Copy the following sentence and underline the nouns. Rikki lives in the country called India. After you have underlined the nouns, answer two of the following questions. Write your answers in the grammar section of you notebook. 1). If you were facing a bully, what would you do? Run away? Fight? Negotiate? 2). What does it mean to be brave? 3). Conflict is when a character (or several characters) are faced with a problem. What are some problems you have dealt with recently?

Proper Nouns A proper noun names a specific person, place, thing, or idea. EX: Rikki, India, The Garden of Good and Evil, or December Common Nouns A common noun any person, place, thing, or idea. EX: girl, city, ribbon, happiness.

Write a four sentence response to the following prompt: Think about a time when you had to face a fear. For example, did you ride a rollercoaster to conquer your fear of heights? Once you have finished writing four sentences to this prompt, go back through and underline the common nouns once and the proper nouns twice. Have a friend check your work.

Concrete nouns name things that you can see or touch. EX: document, crown, snow, buffalo. Abstract nouns name ideas qualities, or feelings that cannot be seen or touched. EX: truth, courage, time, history, heritage.

Prompt: Courage is considered an abstract noun. It is abstract because we cannot touch it or see it. However, we can see the result of courage. Think of a time when you witnessed someone being courageous (or when you were courageous). Write a four sentence response about that time.

Directions: complete numbers 1-3. You do NOT have to write the questions. 1). Define the term noun. 2). Explain the difference between common nouns and proper nouns. 3). Explain the difference between concrete and abstract nouns.

Copy the following passage from the short story, “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling. Underline the nouns and write whether they are common, proper, abstract, or concrete. This is the story of the great war that Rikki-Tikki-Tavi fought single-handed, through the bathrooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment. Darzee, the tailorbird, helped him, and Chuchundra, the muskrat, who never comes out in the middle of the floor but always creeps round by the wall, gave him advice; but Rikki-Tikki did the real fighting.

Take a clean sheet of paper out of your notebook. Put the proper heading on your paper (upper left corner). It should look like this: Name Subject/Class Period Teacher Date Take out your notes on nouns and review them.