1. Class Activity In your DO NOW section of your notebook please write down an answer to the following questions.

2. The name of your favorite movie…

3. The title of your favorite book…

4. The name of your favorite singer or band…

5. To name ANY of our 50 states…

6. If you could travel to any country in the world, where would it be…?

7. Your favorite store to shop in…

8. The name of your favorite restaurant…

9. Your favorite brand of clothing…

10. Your favorite athlete…

11. A famous landmark anywhere around the world.

12. Here’s a tough one… The building you are in right now… NO ABBREVIATIONS!

13. I will now need volunteers to come up to the board and write down your answers to the questions.

14. Along with getting to know you all a little better, the objective of this lesson is CAPITALIZATION

15. What words do we ALWAYS need to capitalize?

16. We capitalize PROPER NOUNS!

17. What are Proper Nouns? It’s actually quite simple. Proper nouns are SPECIFIC people, places & things.

18. EXAMPLES OF PROPER NOUNS: Names- real people & characters Titles for people- Dr. Jones, Professor Smith, Aunt Maria, Uncle Mike, Grandma Sue Countries, states, counties, cities, towns, continents, oceans, rivers, planets Specific buildings, landmarks, specific parks, specific zoos, stadiums, museums, restaurants

19. EXAMPLES OF PROPER NOUNS (CONT): Months, days of the week, Titles of books, magazines, short stories, movies, newspapers, articles, song titles, band names, etc… Brand names, sports teams, stores, Street names specific animal species (Silver Back Gorilla) Abbreviations (NJ, Dr. Mr. Mrs., Prof.)

20. MUST be capitalized! All of your answers to my questions that were written on the board were specific; therefore, they MUST be capitalized!

21. PERIOD The End.