Week 2: GoFormative #1 (Periods 1 & Period 6)

PART 2: Common Noun and Proper Noun Review

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Draggable item		Corresponding Item

PART 3: Pronoun Review
Match the common noun or proper noun with its correct pronoun.  For example, the proper noun Ms. Jernberg  can be replaced with the pronoun she, her, hers. The common noun chair can be replaced with it, its.

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Proper Noun: Riley (identifies as female)

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Proper Noun: Quincy (identifies as male)

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Common Noun: coffee mug

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Proper Nouns: Riley, Nicolas, Abagail, Kamron, and myself (myself is key to getting this question correct)

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Proper Nouns: Riley, Nicolas, Abagail, and Kamron

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Click on the "Show Your Work" and play around with the different features. In order to receive credit for this, you must have made at least one straight line and one scribble.

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Click on "Show Your Work" and underline all of the common nouns in the passage (common nouns only)

PART 4: "My First Free Summer" by Julia Alvarez

This is the first narrative we are reading for our narrative unit.  A narrative is about a character who overcomes a problem. We will be focusinig on personal narratives, or true stories about real pepple.  Before you graduate, you will have to write a personal narrative to either apply for colleges or jobs.

Read the text above and answer the questions below:

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What is a narrative?

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What type of narrative are we focusing on?

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Where is our main character from?

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Who was "El Jefe" or Rafael Trujillo?

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Why did our narrator never have summer?

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What are some things our narrator had to do when her friends in local Dominican schools were having a holiday to celebrate the dictator?

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Our narrator goes to an American school in the Dominican Republic. The bulk or majority of the student body was made up of who?

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What is something our narrrator secretly hoped for?

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Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Proper Noun: Wendy's		Common Noun: Restaurant
Common Noun: high school		Proper Noun: Water Tower Place Mall
Common Noun: the mall		Common Noun: beach
Common Noun: grocery store		Proper Noun: Fair Play Groceries
Proper Noun: Tuesday		Common Noun: day
Proper Noun: North Park Beach		Proper Noun: Golder College Prep
Proper Noun: University of Ilinois		Common Noun: college

Week 2: GoFormative #1 (Periods 1 & Period 6)

Proper Noun: Riley (identifies as female)

Proper Noun: Quincy (identifies as male)

Common Noun: coffee mug

Proper Nouns: Riley, Nicolas, Abagail, Kamron, and myself (myself is key to getting this question correct)

Proper Nouns: Riley, Nicolas, Abagail, and Kamron

Click on the "Show Your Work" and play around with the different features. In order to receive credit for this, you must have made at least one straight line and one scribble.

Click on "Show Your Work" and underline all of the common nouns in the passage (common nouns only)

What is a narrative?

What type of narrative are we focusing on?

Where is our main character from?

Who was "El Jefe" or Rafael Trujillo?

Why did our narrator never have summer?

What are some things our narrator had to do when her friends in local Dominican schools were having a holiday to celebrate the dictator?

Our narrator goes to an American school in the Dominican Republic. The bulk or majority of the student body was made up of who?

What is something our narrrator secretly hoped for?

How does the narrator show change here on this last page? In other words, what about her or her ideas change?

Match the common noun with it's proper noun pair. Recall the practice we did in class on Monday. For example, if the common noun is restaurant than the proper noun match would be something like Wendy's

Proper Noun: Riley (identifies as female)

Proper Noun: Quincy (identifies as male)

Common Noun: coffee mug

Proper Nouns: Riley, Nicolas, Abagail, Kamron, and myself (myself is key to getting this question correct)

Proper Nouns: Riley, Nicolas, Abagail, and Kamron

Click on the "Show Your Work" and play around with the different features. In order to receive credit for this, you must have made at least one straight line and one scribble.

Click on "Show Your Work" and underline all of the common nouns in the passage (common nouns only)

What is a narrative?

What type of narrative are we focusing on?

Where is our main character from?

Who was "El Jefe" or Rafael Trujillo?

Why did our narrator never have summer?

What are some things our narrator had to do when her friends in local Dominican schools were having a holiday to celebrate the dictator?

Our narrator goes to an American school in the Dominican Republic. The bulk or majority of the student body was made up of who?

What is something our narrrator secretly hoped for?

When did she finally "straighten out"

Why did she decide to "straighten out" and pay attention in school?

Can you make a connection to what was happening in the Dominican Republic to what is happening in places in the United States? See video, but feel free to share your own interpretation of what is going on currently in the United States.

How does the narrator show change here on this last page? In other words, what about her or her ideas change?

When did she finally "straighten out"

Why did she decide to "straighten out" and pay attention in school?

Can you make a connection to what was happening in the Dominican Republic to what is happening in places in the United States? See video, but feel free to share your own interpretation of what is going on currently in the United States.