1. Wednesday, September 9th
Good morning class! Please record today’s EU and EQs in your notebooks:
Daily EU: Students will define, understand and identify different categories of nouns in their natural habitat
Today’s Essential Questions How do you define a noun? How are nouns categorized? How well can you apply these definitions and categorizations to identifying different types of nouns?

2. Daily Riddles
What starts with an E ends with an E and has 1 letter in it?
This morning my girlfriend sent me this text message: A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,V,W,X,Y,Z. What did she mean by this text?

3. Today you young scholars will…
Define the concept of a “noun”
Define and identify different categories of nouns
Practice identifying and categorizing nouns
Apply your understanding of nouns to identifying them in different sentence structures

4. During this video…
In your notebook, make a connection with one part of Brian’s comedic take on grammar, and the struggles of school in general

5. Tyler’s Riddle
Railroad crossing look out for the cars, can you spell that without any “r”s?

6. And now the moment you’ve been waiting for…
Nouns? What are thoooooooooooooooooooooooose?

7. Noun
A person, place, thing, or idea Examples:

8. Proper and common
A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place, thing or idea. Proper nouns are capitalized. Common nouns are any nouns that do not name a specific person, place, thing or idea. Common nouns are not capitalized

9. How Noun Brown Cow, How Noun Brown Cow
Categorize the following nouns as either common or proper Car School Monday Tohickon Middle School Desk Today Jackie Robinson Backyard September Mexico McDonald’s Teacher

10. Abstract noun
A noun denoting an idea, quality, concept, feeling or state rather than a concrete object:

11. Examples of Abstract Nouns
Love
Anger
Hate
Peace
Loyalty
Integrity
Pride
Courage
Deceit
Honesty
Trust
Compassion
Bravery
Misery
Childhood
Knowledge
Perseverance
Friendship
Brilliance
Truth
Charity
Justice
Faith
Kindness
Pleasure
Liberty
Freedom
Delight
Despair
Hope
Awe
Calm
Joy
Reality
Wisdom

12. Collective noun-
a collection of things taken as a whole.

13. Examples of collective nouns
Army
Audience
Band
Board
Cast
Class
Committee
Company
Crowd
Family
Faculty
Group
Jury
Navy
Puble
Plethora
School
Society
Staff
Team
Troupe

14. Singular and Plural nouns
Singular Nouns-
Plural Nouns-

15. Making Nouns Plural Formed by adding s to the singular form Examples:
Cheerleader- cheerleaders
Wheel- wheels

16. Making Nouns Plural
Plural nouns ending in ch, sh, s, z, and x is made by adding es to the singular
Examples:
Lunch- lunches
Dish- dishes
Mess-messes
Buzz- buzzes

17. Making Nouns Plural
The plural of common nouns that end in y with a consonant letter just before the y are formed by changing the y to i and adding es.
Examples:
Fly- flies
Cry- Cries
Key-Keys

18. Make the common nouns plural
computer secretary
child energy
Parent farm
effort worker
puzzle mathematics
branch deer
school tax

19. Identify and label the nouns in the following sentences (Proper vs Common, abstract vs concrete, singular vs plural)
1. The teacher told the student that a person should always be loyal.
2. People with perseverance will be successful in life.
3. I brought a new pen to school across the street.
4. The man said to the policeman that he had not seen the accident.

20. Identify and label the nouns in the following sentences (Proper vs Common, abstract vs concrete, singular vs plural)
1. The teacher told the student that a person should always be loyal.
2. People with perseverance will be successful in life.
3. I brought a new pen to school across the street.
4. Steve said to the policeman that he had not seen the accident.

21. Identify and label the nouns in the following sentences (Proper vs Common, abstract vs concrete, singular vs plural, or is it collective)
1. Becky went with her sisters to Disneyland on Friday.
2. My youngest son is in Brazil until September.
3. Mr. Smith works with his wife in Los Angeles.
4. Love could bring marriage to Mark and Terri.

22. Identify and label the nouns in the following sentences (Proper vs Common, abstract vs concrete, singular vs plural, or is it collective)
1. Becky went with her sisters to Disneyland on Friday.
2. My youngest son is in Brazil until September.
3. Mr. Smith works with his wife in Los Angeles.
4. Love could bring marriage to Mark and Terri.

23. Closure-
Close your notebooks… Noun- Proper Noun- Common Noun- Abstract Noun- Collective Noun-