1. LA: Monday, October 8, 2018
Handouts: * Grammar #8 (Nouns: Proper and Common)
Homework: * Grammar #8 (Nouns: Proper and Common)
Assignments due: * None

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:
Mon., Oct. 8, QW #20: I’m Invisible!
Then copy the bold print portion of this prompt on the top lines:
If you could be invisible for one whole day, what would you do? Describe what would happen.
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 to distinguish between common nouns and proper nouns.
Outcomes: Be able to . . .
Define “noun” and name the two basic kinds of nouns.
Define and identify “common nouns.”
Define and identify “proper nouns.”
Apply capital letters correctly in sentences containing proper nouns.

4. Starter #2 Today we begin a mini-unit in Grammar on Nouns
Starter #2 Today we begin a mini-unit in Grammar on Nouns. Let’s see what you have learned already.
A noun is . . .
a person, place, or thing
All nouns could be divided into what two categories?
common nouns and proper nouns
What are common nouns?
any person, place, or thing
What are proper nouns?
a particular person, place, thing or idea, designated by a capital letter

5. Starter #2 continued
Common Noun Proper Noun
Person student Jan Lopez
police officer Captain Michael Miller
Place school Clark Middle School
park Tom Sawyer Park
Thing poem “Jabberwocky”
painting Mona Lisa