English: Monday, April 28, 2014

1. English: Monday, April 28, 2014 Handouts: * Grammar #68 (Capitalizing Names of Places, Part 2) Homework: * Grammar #68 (Capitalizing Names of Places, Part 2) Due tomorrow(no late work) Assignments due: * Grammar #67 (Capitalizing Names of Places, Part 1)

2. Starter #1: Take out your comp book. Turn to the first blank page. In the upper right hand corner, write the following: Mon., April 28, 2014 QW #47: What I love most about . . . Complete today’s title as your first sentence. What do you love most about one of your parents or grandparents? Include memorable anecdotes that support your points. (It can be someone still living OR someone who has crossed over.) Remember to write in complete sentences, avoiding fragments and run-ons. If you are not sure how to spell a certain word, just sound it out and circle it.

3. Lesson Goal: Learn about capitalizing names of places. Outcomes: Be able to . . . Identify names of cities, countries, continents, geographical features and sections of a country and apply capital letters in those names and apply capital letters in those names. Identify words such as city, state, mountain, river, street, bridge that are common nouns, that is, NOT used as a specific name, and indicate them with lower case letters. Identify compass point terms that are used to name specific sections of a country and indicate them with capital letters. Identify compass points that are used in a directional way, and indicate them in lower case. Apply capital letters to names of specific places but apply lower case letters to the articles and prepositions within those names.

4. Starter #2: Last week we learned about capitalizing names of places. Capitalize names of cities, counties, states, countries, continents, and geographical features such as mountains and rivers and sections of a country: Mount Vernon Westchester County New Jersey Ethiopia Africa Indian Ocean the Grand Canyon Bering Strait OlentangyRiver Bay of Bengal Cape of Good Hope Ohio River Valley Mount Everest the Northwest New England

5. Starter #3: We learned to capitalize the names of streets and highways as well as the names of specific buildings, bridges, and monuments. Why? They are considered names. River Forest Boulevard Avenue of the Americas Pulaski Skyway World Trade Towers Golden Gate Bridge Lincoln Memorial Do NOT capitalize words like city, state, mountain, river, street, and bridge if they are NOT part of a specific name. On our trip we drove through ten states and five major cities, but we did not see any mountains. Turn left at the next street, and take the bridge over the river.

6. Starter #4: Today we will learn two more rules. . . . Capitalize compass points when they refer to a specific section of a country but NOT when they simply indicate direction. Also, do NOT capitalize adjectives formed from words showing direction. the West Coast the Southeast north of Atlanta southern exposure Capitalize the names of specific places but NOT the articles (a, an, the) or prepositions that are part of geographical names. Tucson, Arizona the West Indies the United States of America