Nouns

1. Nouns 9-28-10

2. Mentor Text: Jack January 17 Remember the wheelbarrow poem you read the first week of school? Maybe the wheelbarrow poet was just making a picture with words and someone else— like maybe his teacher— typed it up and then people thought it was a poem because it looked like one typed up like that.

3. Jack Continued And maybe that’s the same thing that happened with Mr. Robert Frost. Maybe he was just making pictures with words about the snowy woods and the pasture— and his teacher typed them up and they looked like poems so people thought they were poems.

4. Jack Continued Like how you did with the blue-car things and reading-the-small-poems thing. on the board typed up they look like poems and the other kids are looking at them and they think they really are poems and they are all saying Who wrote that?

5. Daily Review: What is an abstract noun?

6. 9-28-10 Objective: • I will apply new knowledge of common, proper, and compound nouns in my writing. • HW: None!

7. Types of Sentences

8. Interjections

9. Practice: • With your group write a story using 5 singular possessive nouns, 5 plural possessive nouns, 10 prepositional phrases, 5 compound nouns, use all four sentence types, 5 proper nouns and 20 common nouns. • Write a rough draft first. • The final copy will be written on a piece of butcher paper to share tomorrow. • Your story must have a beginning, middle and end.

10. Closure: • Name five plural nouns.

11. Long Term Memory View: • Give me a prepositional phrase.

12. The Preposition Dance