Parts of Speech Week

Day 1: Warm-Up• Copy the following words in your vocabulary section and begin

defining them with your group. 1. bonanza-2. bountiful-3. cache-4. capacious-5. caption-6. chastise-7. citadel-8. cite-9. clad-10. clarify-

What is a nouns?

• A noun is a: ________________________________________________________

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yBasketballCarHotRedSoccerKings DominionFood LionCinderella Run

SleepSleepyGarageMallFallSpringGreen Bright Sun

Proper Nouns

• What is a proper noun? • A proper noun is when you are talking about a

SPECIFIC person, place, thing, or idea. • Example: President Obama versus just talking

about the president• Example: East Carolina University versus

talking about a university.

Improper Nouns

• What is an improper noun? • An improper is the opposite of proper,

meaning when you are talking about a noun in general. Nothing in specific.

• Example: I want to watch a movievs.

I want to watch Scary Movie 4

Practice

• Make two columns in your notes:

Proper Nouns Improper Nouns

Now match the following words in the correct columns:

Basketball Chicago TeacherTiger Woods City Ms. ColeLil Wayne State Lakers Music Florida Kobe BryantRap Cinderella SandalsCountry Class NikeKeys Window Dish Network

Pronouns

• What is a pronoun?

• A pronoun is a word that can be substituted for a noun.

• Example: John went to the storevs. He went to the store. or They went to the store

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• Typically pronouns are used after a regular now has. The pronoun then refers to whatever the noun was.

Quick Write

• Under the definition for pronoun I want you to write as many pronouns as you can think of now! You have 60 seconds…. Go!!!!!!

My ExamplesShe Me You Her Him I They Them

We Us Your Yours It Their Theirs Who

Myself yourself Himself herself yourselves

Our Ourselves Nobody

He My themselves

Mine Whom That* Who anyone

What* Someone

Anybody everybody

Objective vs. Subjective

• Objective pronouns: are used when the person or thing is the subject of the sentence or clause

Ex: I like to eat chips• Subjective pronouns: are used when the

person or thing is the object of the sentence or clause

Ex: John likes me.

Subjective Pronouns

• I • You• She• He• It • We• What• Who • They

Objective Pronouns

• Me • Him• Her• It• Us • You• Them• Whom

• Reflexive pronouns are used when a person or thing acts on itself. – English example: John cut himself.

• Reciprocal pronouns refer to a reciprocal relationship. – English example: They do not like each other.

• Possessive pronouns are used to indicate possession or ownership. – English example: Those clothes are mine.

• Interrogative pronouns ask which person or thing is meant.– English example: Who did that?

Review Activity

~You may work within your groups, but each of you have to complete the handout.

~When you finish you are to start reading your AR books.

~If you need to take an AR test, let me know. ~Today is library day, if you need to go let me

know.

Day 2: Warm-up

• Take each vocabulary word for this week and create a sentence for it.

• The sentence should be one that a person that doesn’t know the definition, could figure it out by reading your sentence. They can use context clues to do this.

• Do not simply state the definition in the sentence.

Verbs

• What is a verb?

• A verb is a word that shows an action. • Ex: run, sleep, jump

Verbs Cont’d

• Verbs change tense depending on past/present/future.

• Examples: – I love you. – I loved you.– I will love you.

Regular Verbs

• A regular verb is one that doesn’t change its spelling in different tenses.

• Examples: – Love/Loved/will love/loving– Walk/walked/will walk/walking– Jump/jumped/will jump/jumping– Call/called/will call/calling

Irregular Verbs

• Is one that has a unique spelling when tenses are changed.

• Examples: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/605/01/

Adverbs

• An adverb describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. They typically end in –ly.

• Example: – The really pretty cat ran away. – The family happily left the Jones’ house.

Review Activity

• You may work in your groups to complete the handout.

• Each of you are required to complete your own handout.

• Once you finish you are to read in your AR books.

• Let me know if you need to take an AR test.

Day 3: Warm-up

• Take each vocabulary word and come up with a synonym and a antonym for it.

Adjectives

• An adjective is used to describe a noun.

• Example: – The dress was red.

• Adjectives typically are very close to the noun they are modifying.

• They can also appear in groups– Ex: The long, red, shiny dress was gorgeous.

Review Activity

• You may work in your groups to complete the handout.

• Each of you are required to complete your own handout.

• Once you finish you are to read in your AR books.

• Let me know if you need to take an AR test.

Day 4: Warm-Up

• What is the difference between a regular verb and an irregular verb?

• What does a pronoun do? • What is the difference between a proper and a

improper noun? • What is an adverb? • What is an adjective ?

Conjunctions

• A conjunction is a word that combines two sentences, to make a compound sentence.

• Ex: – John wanted to go to the movies, and he also

wanted to go to the mall. • John wanted to go to the movies. He also wanted to go

to the mall.

Conjunctions Video

• http://www1.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?title=Conjunction_Junction&video_id=159879

Prepositions

• A preposition tells a location of something.

• Example: – The chair is behind you.

Preposition Video

• http://www1.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?title=Preposition_Rap&video_id=228490

Day 5: Warm-UP

• Study your vocabulary words for the first 10 minutes.

Quiz Time

Prepositional Phrases

• http://www1.teachertube.com/members/viewVideo.php?title=Prepositions_and_Prepositional_Phrases&video_id=134842

Prepositional Phrases~At the minimum, a prepositional phrase will begin

with a preposition and end with a noun, pronoun, gerund, or clause, the "object" of the preposition.

~The object of the preposition will often have one or more modifiers to describe it.

~These are the patterns for a prepositional phrase:-preposition + noun, pronoun, gerund, or clause-preposition + modifier(s) + noun, pronoun, gerund, or clause

Examples• At homeAt = preposition; home = noun.• In timeIn = preposition; time = noun.• From my grandmotherFrom = preposition; my = modifier; grandmother = noun.• Under the warm blanketUnder = preposition; the, warm = modifiers; blanket = noun.• In the weedy, overgrown gardenIn = preposition; the, weedy, overgrown = modifiers; garden =

noun.

Review Activity

• http://aliscot.com/bigdog/prep_exercise.htm

• You will write the correct answers on sheet of paper in your notes.

• I will check them when you are finished. • Read in your AR books when you are finished.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!!!