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Bellringers 1-5. August 27-31. Nouns: The Basics BR #1 August 27 th , 2012. Nouns name a person, place, thing, or idea. Ex: Rikki , India, snake, or bravery . Let’s Practice . Copy the following sentence and underline the nouns. Rikki lives in the country called India.
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Bellringers 1-5 August 27-31
Nouns: The BasicsBR #1 August 27th, 2012 • Nouns name a person, place, thing, or idea. • Ex: Rikki, India, snake, or bravery
Let’s Practice • Copy the following sentence and underline the nouns. • Rikki lives in the country called India. • After you have underlined the nouns, answer two of the following questions. Write your answers in the grammar section of you notebook. • 1). If you were facing a bully, what would you do? Run away? Fight? Negotiate? • 2). What does it mean to be brave? • 3). Conflict is when a character (or several characters) are faced with a problem. What are some problems you have dealt with recently?
Proper and Common NounsBR #2August 28, 2012 • Proper Nouns • A proper noun names a specific person, place, thing, or idea. • EX: Rikki, India, The Garden of Good and Evil, or December • Common Nouns • A common noun any person, place, thing, or idea. • EX: girl, city, ribbon, happiness.
Let’s Practice • Write a four sentence response to the following prompt: • Think about a time when you had to face a fear. For example, did you ride a rollercoaster to conquer your fear of heights? • Once you have finished writing four sentences to this prompt, go back through and underline the common nouns once and the proper nouns twice. Have a friend check your work.
BR #3August 29, 2012Concrete and Abstract Nouns • Concrete nouns name things that you can see or touch. • EX: document, crown, snow, buffalo. • Abstract nouns name ideas qualities, or feelings that cannot be seen or touched. • EX: truth, courage, time, history, heritage.
Let’s Practice • Prompt: Courage is considered an abstract noun. It is abstract because we cannot touch it or see it. However, we can see the result of courage. Think of a time when you witnessed someone being courageous (or when you were courageous). Write a four sentence response about that time.
BR #4August 30, 2012Noun Review • Directions: complete numbers 1-3. You do NOT have to write the questions. • 1). Define the term noun. • 2). Explain the difference between common nouns and proper nouns. • 3). Explain the difference between concrete and abstract nouns.
Let’s Practice • Copy the following passage from the short story, “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling. Underline the nouns and write whether they are common, proper, abstract, or concrete. • This is the story of the great war that Rikki-Tikki-Tavi fought single-handed, through the bathrooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment. Darzee, the tailorbird, helped him, and Chuchundra , the muskrat, who never comes out in the middle of the floor but always creeps round by the wall, gave him advice; but Rikki-Tikki did the real fighting.
BR #5August 31, 2012Test Day • Take a clean sheet of paper out of your notebook. • Put the proper heading on your paper (upper left corner). It should look like this: Name Subject/Class Period Teacher Date • Take out your notes on nouns and review them.