1. Becoming a Better student
What if I told you that to become a better student, (and get better grades!!) you only needed to do one thing differently? Would you do that one thing?

2. NOTE TAKING
What do you DO in class right now while the teacher is talking? While a Video is Playing?
Passive vs Active Learning
Why Take Notes? Why not?

3. Practice Note Taking Parts of Speech
Noun – Person, Place, Thing, or IDEA
- Examples: dog, door, beauty, time
- S: I ran a marathon to win a prize.
Verb – Action or State of Being
- Examples: run, running, ran, jumped
is, are was were, has have had, be
I was running to the store. I fell.

4. Nouns Nouns are People Places Things Ideas
They CAN be the subject of the sentence, but a sentence can have more nouns than just the subject
Video:

5. Pronouns Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koZFca8AkT0
The “professional” noun – to replace your noun when it is too lazy to do the job

6. Adjectives Describe nouns
w.youtube .com/wat ch?v=6Nu xeh4V1ng

7. Adverbs Describe Verbs or adjectives or other adverbs
e.com/watch?v=14f Xm4FOMPM

8. Conjunction Joins words, phrases, sentences. For And Nor But Or Yet So
h?v=4AyjKgz9tKg

9. Interjections Sudden spoken interruption.
e.com/watch?v=Yk AX7Vk3JEw

10. Prepositions! Prepositions! Show relationships
A preposition sits before a noun (or a pronoun) to show the noun's relationship to another word in the sentence
monster.com/lessons/pre positions.htm - more help
/watch?v=yfExXGMX2JM

11. Prepositional Phrases
Prepositions tell where or how.
The subject is NEVER found within the prepositional phrase.
Common Prepositions (pg 41)
about
behind
except
onto
toward
into
near
above
below
for
out
under of
like
across
beneath
from
outside on
within
after
beside in
over
unlike at
with
against
between
Inside
Past
until as to

12. Verbs Action Verb Helper Verb Linking Verb
Verbs : action, state of being, or occurrence
e.com/watch?v=Mp 4UtYNxZLg

13. How to Find the Verb Verbs tell time Today she dances.
Test the sentence by adding Today, Yesterday, or tomorrow.
Notice: the verb is the word(s) that change endings!
Today she dances.
Yesterday she danced.
Tomorrow she will dance.

14. Action Verbs
Tells what the subject is doing and when the action occurs.
Examples:
Arrive, leave, learn, write, open, write, teach
The woman studied ballet.

15. Linking Verbs
Links the subject of a sentence to one or more words that describe or identify the subject.
Examples:
Act, appear, become, feel, get, grow, look, remain, seems, smells, sounds, tastes, turns
Be (am, is, are, was, were, has been, have been)
She seems distracted

16. Helping Verbs
Combines with a main verb to form a verb phrase. It always comes before the main verb and expresses a special meaning or a particular time.
Examples:
Can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will
Being, been, am, is, was, are, were
Has, have, had
Does, do, did
He is sleeping
He might sleep
He should sleep.
He could have been sleeping.

17. Finding Nouns – ways to categorize
Common
Name general things (not capitalized)
aunt
country
watch
Proper
Name particular persons, places, or things (caps)
Aunt Meriam
Nigeria
Timex
Concrete
Name things we can see or touch
Face
People
Jewelry Watch
Abstract
Things we cannot see or touch
Loneliness
Patriotism
Beauty
Time

18. Practice The morning of June 27 was sunny and clear.
The flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green.
The people of the village began to gather in the square
The lottery was conducted by Mr. Sommers.
The jovial man had time and energy to devote to civic activities.

19. Pronouns take the place of nouns
Replace the underlined word(s) with a pronoun.
The crowd arrived early.
The gym was noisy.
People waited eagerly.
Coach Ann Bradway had not lost a game…
Steven and I found the best seats in the front row.
Not one person could predict the outcome.
They arrived early
It was noisy.
They waited eagerly.
She had not lost a game yet this season.
We found the best seats in the front row.
No one could predict the outcome.
Nobody could predict the outcome.

20. Race Draw a word from the word bag Identify part of speech
Put it in the appropriate place
If you are wrong, I won’t tell you where it goes, I’ll just say “WRONG!” and send you back to figure it out
You may NOT use a dictionary, internet, or other resources. ONLY your notes.

21. Notes Review & Assignment
What do your notes look like?
Circle/highlight, review/revise your notes.
Review them once a day for 5 min
Assignment
Take notes in class (2 week)
Take notes on your reading (2 weeks)
Take notes on your research
If you learn to do this well, your grades will improve drastically