Let People Own

Exotic Animals
Agenda
1) Goals / Sharepoint
2) Quiz
3) Grammar: Nouns
4) Reading: Let People Own
Exotic Animals
5) Writing: Compare &
Contrast Writing
6) Lions of Little Rock:
Chapter 11 – 15 –
Tracking Changes
Goals
Specific | M_______ | Achievable | Rele___ | T________

Grammar corrections
Reading notes
Asking questions
Helping classmates
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Nouns
A person/place/thing/idea

The camel chews the sand.

(thing)
The desert is a hot and dry
place. (place)
Nouns
Plural(s) and Singular (no s)
A trick to finding nouns in a sentence:
Look for a and the a noun will
always follow** these words

**BE CAREFUL!
Sometimes adjectives come first.
Nouns
Common and Proper
Proper nouns name a specific
person, place, thing or idea
pen _________
The Smithsonian __________
Mercedes _________
Ben _________
Let People Own
Exotic Animals
As you read annotate by:
1) Identifying the reasons and
evidence of the author
2) Underlining (highlighting) key
vocabulary
Writing
INTRODUCTION
1) Uses a HOOK to draw the reader in
2) Offers a SUMMARY of background info
3) Identifies the REASONS discussed in the body

BODY
1) DETAILS the reason
2) Introduces & CITES the piece of evidence
3) DISCUSSES how the evidence links to the reason

CONCLUSION
1) REPHRASES main reasons explored
2) CONNECTS ideas to a larger purpose
Lions of Little Rock
Things have changed…
1) Relevant details before
2) How things changed in
this chapter
3) Expected effects going
forward
Lions of Little Rock
Chapter 16 – Sent Away

Compare & Contrast to

Chapter 7 – A New Roommate