1. Possessive Nouns
“I refuse to do it! I don’t care who her father is, her grades don’t even begin to compare to Martha’s. I won’t lie or falsify records. Martha has a straight A-plus average and you know it.” That was Mr. Schmidt and he sounded very angry. Mr. Boone’s voice sounded calm and quiet.
“Look. Joann’s father is not only on the Board, he owns the only store in
town: we could say it was a close tie and—”
In Marta Salinas’s story, the main character learns to appreciate her grandparents’ values about the importance of hard work. The conflict in the story begins when Martha overhears her teachers’ argument in the hallway about which student should receive the scholarship jacket.

2. Possessive Nouns Martha’s Mr. Boone’s Joann’s Marta Salinas’s
grandparents’
grandparents
teachers’
teacher

3. Forming Possessive Nouns
Singular Noun
Singular Possessive
Noun
Plural Noun
Plural Possessive Noun
student
student’s
students
students’
teacher
Teacher’s
Teachers
Teachers’
Grandpa
Grandpa’s
Grandpas
Grandpas’
city
City’s
Cities
Cities’
friend
Friend’s
Friends
Friends’

4. Irregular Plural Nouns
Singular Noun
Singular Possessive
Noun
Irregular
Plural
Plural Possessive Noun
child
child’s
children
children’s
woman
woman’s
women
women’s
man
man’s
men
men’s
person
person’s
people
people’s
goose
goose’s
geese
geese’s

5. Revising
[1] The main incident in the short story “The Scholarship Jacket” happens when Martha is told she has to pay for this years’ scholarship jacket even though it is supposed to be earned by having good grades. [2]2 She is angry and upset by her principals request for $15, and then she becomes even more upset by her grandfathers refusal to give her the money. [3] Even though she knows deep down that her grandfather is right and that she should not have to pay for something she earned through hard work, she still feel’s frustrated about the situation. [4] When Martha repeats her grandfathers words to the principal, saying “…if I had to pay for it, then it wouldn’t be a scholarship jacket,” the principal is forced to confront the truth. [5] He changes his mind and decides to “make an exception” for Martha, going against the Board’s unethical decision. [6] In the end, Martha learns that scholarship jacket’s are less important than doing what is right.

6. Revising
[1] The main incident in the short story “The Scholarship Jacket” happens when Martha is told she has to pay for this years’ scholarship jacket even though it is supposed to be earned by having good grades. [2]2 She is angry and upset by her principals request for $15, and then she becomes even more upset by her grandfathers refusal to give her the money. [3] Even though she knows deep down that her grandfather is right and that she should not have to pay for something she earned through hard work, she still feel’s frustrated about the situation. [4] When Martha repeats her grandfathers words to the principal, saying “…if I had to pay for it, then it wouldn’t be a scholarship jacket,” the principal is forced to confront the truth. [5] He changes his mind and decides to “make an exception” for Martha, going against the Board’s unethical decision. [6] In the end, Martha learns that scholarship jacket’s are less important than doing what is right.