1. Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

2. Do Now _______________ is a tall building.
_______________ is a taller building.
_______________ is the tallest building.

3. EQ: How do I identify and write the comparative and superlative form of adjectives?
Vocabulary
adjective
comparative
superlative

4. Think Pair Share What are comparative and superlative
adjectives? Write your answer in your
Journal.
Discuss your answer with the person sitting
next to you.

5. Pick the correct choice.
The Nile River is (long, longer, longest).
The Nile River is (long, longer, longest) than the Mississippi River.
The Nile River is the (long, longer, longest) river in the world.

6. How do I identify and write the comparative and superlative form of adjectives?
The Mongol soldiers of the fourteenth
century were fiercer than those of the
seventeenth century. The soldiers in
Genghis Khan’s army may have been the
fiercest soldiers of all.

7. How do I identify and write the comparative and superlative form of adjectives?
In the seventeenth century, the Manchus
were more aggressive than the Mongols.
Did they send their most aggressive forces
to take control of the Forbidden City?

8. How do I identify and write the comparative and superlative form of adjectives?
Guided Practice:
The emperors of China built additions to the Great Wall in places where the likelihood of attack was the (great) __________.
Earthen walls were (weak) _________ than walls of brick.
Building a brick wall was (complicated) ________ than building an earthen wall.

9. How do I identify and write the comparative and superlative form of adjectives?
4. most skillful
5. smallest
6. most significant

10. Do now Complete the worksheet from the back table.
Keep your paper at your desk.

11. Characteristics/Rules
Definition
Characteristics/Rules
Example
Non-Example
Comparative Adjectives

12. Comparative adjectives are used to compare two nouns.
Definition
Comparative adjectives are used to compare two nouns.
Characteristics/Rules
Example
Non-Example
Comparative Adjectives

13. Characteristics/Rules
Definition
Comparative adjectives are used to compare two nouns.
Characteristics/Rules
-Add –er to most adjectives to compare two nouns.
- Use more with long adjectives
Example
Non-Example
Comparative Adjectives

14. Characteristics/Rules
Definition
Comparative adjectives are used to compare two nouns.
Characteristics/Rules
-Add –er to most adjectives to compare two nouns.
- Use more with long adjectives
Example
taller
smaller
more significant
more likely
Non-Example
tall, tallest
small, smallest
most significant
most likely
Comparative Adjectives

15. Characteristics/Rules
Definition
Characteristics/Rules
Example
Non-Example
Superlative Adjectives

16. Superlative adjectives compare three or more nouns.
Definition
Superlative adjectives compare three or more nouns.
Characteristics/Rules
-Add –est to most adjectives to compare three or more nouns.
-Use most with long adjectives.
Example
tallest
smallest
most significant
most likely
Non-Example
taller
smaller
more significant
more likely
Superlative Adjectives

17. Assignment: Comparative page number Superlative Page number
Stronger (392)
Using the story The Great Wall (page ) identify examples of comparative and superlative adjectives. Write your examples on the back of your worksheet (include the page number).

18. Homework Write 3 sentences using comparative adjectives.
Write 3 sentences using superlative sentences.

19. Assignment
Complete lab 33.

20. Ticket Out The Door
1. Tell me how many things a comparative adjective compares.
Tell me how many things the superlative form of an adjective compares.
Write three examples of each.
Comparative
Superlative

21. Quiz
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