1. Language Arts: Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Handouts: * Grammar #30 (Adjectives and Proper Adjectives)
Homework: * Grammar #30 (Adjectives and Proper Adjectives) * If you don’t finish in class, it is homework.
Assignments due: * None [Let’s grade Grammar Test #4]

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:
Tues., Dec 4, QW #29: A More Creative Christmas
Pretend one of your friends got some bad news: That person’s parent had just lost his/her job and their family would not have money to spend on Christmas gifts. What would you say to encourage your friend? Can a family have a great Christmas without buying any gifts? Explain. Also, describe what your friend could do to make Christmas special for his/her family.
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 about adjectives.
Outcomes: Be able to . . .
Define these terms: adjective, predicate adjective, and proper adjective.
Identify the adjective in any given sentence and the noun it modifies.
Recognize the linking verb construction that leads to predicate adjectives.
Identify both predicate adjectives and proper adjectives in any given sentence.

4. Starter #2 Can you remember the definition for an “adjective”?
An adjective modifies (tells more about) a noun. 
An adjective always answers one of three questions. What are those questions?
Which one?
What kind?
How many?
Usually an adjective appears just before the noun it modifies—but not always. When the noun/subject is followed by a linking verb, its adjective appears after the linking verb as part of the predicate. This is called a ________________________.
predicate adjective
The puppy became frisky.
Where is the adjective and what kind of adjective is it?
“Became” is a linking verb. So frisky is a “predicate adjective.”
This is like saying: The frisky puppy . . .

5. Starter #3 Perhaps the easiest adjective to identify is the “proper adjective.” Does this term remind you of any other term you are familiar with?
“proper noun”
What is a “proper noun”?
It’s a noun that names a particular person, place, thing, or idea.
A “proper adjective” is an adjective formed from a proper noun.
Sometimes it is identical to the proper noun from which it was formed. Guess what is true about all proper adjectives?
They all begin with a CAPITAL LETTER.
Examples:
the Wyoming foothills
Chinese checkers