Harcourt Journeys:
Grammar Skills
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Unit 3: Lesson 11
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This week’s skills:
Part 1: Capitalize Historical Events
Part 2: Capitalize Titles, Books, Stories
Part 3: Capitalize Languages and Race
Part 4: Kinds of Verbs
Part 5: Conventions
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Capitalization Historical Events
Part 1: PowerPoint Lesson
Part 2: Projectable 11.6
Part 3: Practice Book Page 127
Part 4: Adapted Worksheets
Capitalization Worksheets
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Part 1: Capitalize Historical
Events
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Today, we are going to
review some
capitalization rules.
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Click on the following PPT to
view presentation:
Capitalization and
Punctuation
A Project LA Activity
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PRACTICE
LINKS!
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Oswego: Proper Nouns –
Which is Capitalized
Correctly?
http://www.oswego.org/ocsdweb/quiz/mquiz.asp?filenam
e=msmith5findcaps
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Oswego: Proper Nouns –
Which is Capitalized
Correctly? (Matching
Activity)
http://www.oswego.org/ocsdweb/match/dragflip.asp?filen
ame=msmith5allcaps
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HISTORICAL
EVENTS &
DOCUMENTS
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Now that we’ve reviewed, let’s
learn about capitalizing
historical events and
documents.
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Rule: Capitalize the names of
important historical events,
periods of time, and
documents.
• Battle of Yorktown
• Bronze Age
• Bill of Rights
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Practice:
Underline the
word(s) that
should be
capitalized.
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The second continental
congress drew up and
signed the declaration of
independence in
philadelphia.
(Hint: Capitalize 6 Words)
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They drew up the articles
of confederation that
formed 13 independent
colonies into a new nation.
(Hint: Capitalize 2 Words)
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Later, the constitution
was written.
(Hint: Capitalize 1 word)
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pennsylvania became the
second state to ratify the
u.s. constitution on
december 12, 1787.
(Hint: Capitalize 4 Words)
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PRACTICE!
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presentation.
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Projectable 11.6
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Turn your Practice Book to
page 127.
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Adapted Practice:
Capitalization Worksheets
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Capitalization - Titles
Part 1: PowerPoint Lesson
Part 2: Projectable 11.7
Part 3: Practice Book Page 128
Part 4: Adapted Worksheets
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Part 2: Capitalization Titles
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WARM UP:
REVIEW
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Click on the following PPT to
review:
Created by Denna Stroud and Ruth Pohlman
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Oswego: Proper Nouns –
Which is Capitalized
Correctly? (Multiple Choice)
http://www.oswego.org/ocsdweb/quiz/mquiz.asp?filenam
e=kderittecapitals
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CAPITALIZE
TITLES
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Now that we’ve reviewed,
let’s learn about
capitalizing titles.
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Rule: Capitalize the first word, the last
word, and all important words in the
title of a book, play, short story, poem,
essay, article, film television series,
song, magazine, newspaper, and
chapter of a book.
• A Wrinkle in Time
• “The Raven”
• Washington Post
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Practice:
Underline the
word(s) that
should be
capitalized.
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The record argus is the
greenville newspaper.
(Hint: Capitalize 3
Words)
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The herald is the sharon
newspaper.
(Hint: Capitalize 2
Words)
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My favorite book is called
the chocolate touch.
(Hint: Capitalize 3 Words)
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winn-dixie is about a girl
and her dog.
(Hint: Capitalize 2
words)
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PRACTICE!
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presentation.
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Fun Trivia: Capitalizing
Titles
http://www.funtrivia.com/
playquiz/quiz4829458a2d8.
html
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Projectable 11.7
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Turn your Practice Book to
page 128.
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Capitalization: Language, Race,
and Nationalities
Part 1: PowerPoint Lesson
Part 2: Projectable 11.8
Part 3: Practice Book Page 129
Part 4: Adapted Worksheet
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Part 3: Capitalization:
Language ,Race, and
Nationalities
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WARM UP:
REVIEW
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Quia Capitalization Quiz:
http://www.quia.com/quiz
/113746.html
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LANGUAGE,
RACE, &
NATIONALITY
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Now that we’ve reviewed, let’s
learn about capitalizing words
that refer to language, race, and
nationality.
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Rule: Capitalize the names of
ethnic groups, nationalities, and
languages.
• Asian
• German
• Spanish
• English
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Rule: Capitalize proper
adjectives that are formed
from the names of ethnic
groups and nationalities.
• Asian languages
• Italian food
• English authors
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Practice:
Underline the
word(s) that
should be
capitalized.
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My favorite school lunch
is mexican pizza.
(Hint: Capitalize 1 Word)
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Mrs. piroga is great at
speaking spanish.
(Hint: Capitalize 2
Words)
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Curry is a popular indian
dish.
(Hint: Capitalize 1 Word)
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Rice is a japanese staple.
(Hint: Capitalize 1 word)
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Projectable 11.8
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Turn your Practice Book to
page 129.
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Kinds of Verbs:
Part 1: PowerPoint Lesson
Part 2: Practice Book Page 130
Part 3: Adapted Worksheets
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Part 4: Kinds of Verbs
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Click this presentation to review
kinds of verbs:
Name That
Verb!
• Action Verbs
• Linking Verbs
• Helping/Main Verbs
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PRACTICE!
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HARCOURT GAME: VERB
POWER
http://www.harcourtscho
ol.com/activity/verb_pow
er/index_pre.html
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Turn your Practice Book to
page 130.
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Conventions:
Part 1: Practice Book Page 131
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Part 5: Conventions
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Turn your Practice Book to
page 131.
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How did you do?
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