▲■WORKBOOK PLUS26 Grade 6: Unit 2 Nouns (Use with pupil book pages 84–86.)
Skill: Students will identify and will use nouns.
A Letter
Does your community need a community center? What activities or servicesdo you think should be offered there? If you already have a center, are there anyactivities or services you would like to add? Does the center need a swimming pool?Would you like to take music classes there? Is there a need for a clinic or childcareservices in your center? Choose one of the following activities:• Write a letter to your local newspaper telling why your community needs a
center and what services and activities should be offered there. Discuss whyhaving a community center is important.
• Write a letter to your community center telling what activities and servicesshould be added. Make sure you explain why the activity or service is important.When you have finished, use four different colored markers or pens to underline
all the nouns. Use a different color for each of the four categories: person, place,thing, idea.
▲■WORKBOOK PLUS28 Grade 6: Unit 2 Nouns (Use with pupil book pages 87–89.)
Skill: Students will identify and will write common and proper nouns.
A Plan
You have been chosen to design a new bridge. Write a plan, telling where yourbridge will be and what it will look like. Write at least five sentences. Underline thecommon nouns and circle the proper nouns in your sentences.
Grade 6: Unit 2 Nouns (Use with pupil book pages 90–91.)Skill: Students will use appositives to elaborate nouns in sentences.
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Elaborating with Appositives 1–6. Add appositives that elaborate or tell moreabout the underlined nouns. Use your experience and imagination to help.
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The little league player won the game.The little league player, my youngerbrother, won the game.
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Last week my friends went to abaseball game. Their friend got themtickets for the last game of theseason. Their favorite team wasplaying and everyone hoped theteam would win.
During the first inning, the leadoffhitter was injured. Another playerhad thrown the ball and hit him in
the arm. Luckily another playercame up and hit a home run. Theboys’ team won by a score of 1–0.
Before going home, the boysstopped at a store. They bought asnack and then decided to go to thepark. They played two innings andfinally went home for the day.
▲■WORKBOOK PLUS30 Grade 6: Unit 2 Nouns (Use with pupil book pages 90–91.)
Skill: Students will use appositives to combine sentences.
Revising Strategies: Sentence FluencyName
Writing with Nouns (continued from page 29)
Combining Sentences with Appositives 7–12. Combine each underlined pair of sentences by using appositives.
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The Hopi live in Arizona. The Hopi are a NativeAmerican tribe.The Hopi, a Native American tribe, live in Arizona.
The Hopi live in pueblos in the Southwest. Pueblos are dwellingsmade of brick and stone. The homes are built on mesas. These mesas areflat-topped hills. They are a magnificent sight.
The Hopi are hard workers. They are known for their drypainting.Have you ever seen a drypainting? The materials are dried vegetables andminerals. They produce bright colors. The paintings are done on cleansand or buckskin.
Lisa is a Hopi. She teaches drypainting. She enjoys her work and herart. Lisa is a careful worker. She makes her own dyes. Lisa uses manycolors in her drypainting, but her favorite color is deep blue.
Singular and Plural Nouns (continued from page 31)
▲■WORKBOOK PLUS32 Grade 6: Unit 2 Nouns (Use with pupil book pages 92–95.)
Skill: Students will write the plural forms of nouns.
A Newspaper Story
Imagine that you are a reporter writing a story on the development of a newlanguage or code. Write a paragraph describing the new code. Tell how the codewill be used. Use the plural forms of at least four nouns from the box below.
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▲■WORKBOOK PLUS34 Grade 6: Unit 2 Nouns (Use with pupil book pages 96–98.)
Skill: Students will write the possessive forms of nouns.
A Speech
A new gym has just opened in your neighborhood. You have been asked to give aspeech on the benefits of exercise. Write at least five sentences, encouraging peopleto use the gym. Include a possessive noun in each sentence.
Grade 6: Unit 2 Nouns (Use with pupil book pages 99–100.)Skill: Students will use possessive nouns to combine sentences.
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Combining Sentences: Possessive Nouns 1–5. Use possessive nouns to combine eachpair of underlined sentences.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes received a medical degree.His medical degree allowed him to become aprofessor at Dartmouth College in 1838.Oliver Wendell Holmes’s medical degree allowed himto become a professor at Dartmouth College in 1838.
Oliver Wendell Holmes wrotebooks. The books cover everythingfrom medical subjects to fiction. Healso wrote poetry. One of Holmes’sfirst poems is among his mostfamous. The poem is titled “OldIronsides.” The title refers to abattleship. Holmes did not stop there.He wrote essays as well. Holmes hadseveral famous collections of essaysand poems. One collection is calledThe Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.
In 1841 Oliver Wendell Holmeshad a son, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.His son had a career in law. Thiscareer led to fame as a SupremeCourt justice. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. emphasized an important theoryabout law throughout his life. Thetheory had a focus. The focus wasthat law is not fixed, but must changewith the times. Today this theory isconsidered part of the foundation ofour legal system.
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Combining Sentences: Appositives with Possessive Nouns 6–10. Combine eachunderlined pair of sentences by using appositives with possessive nouns.
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Mr. Malson became principal of Washington Elementary School in October. Heis a former mayor of Camden City. From the first day of his new job, Mr. Malsonhad to solve problems. The lab computers would not start. The computers were themost expensive equipment in the school. Mr. Malson soon discovered they werenot plugged in. After solving this problem, he learned about the flood in the gym.The gym was covered with an inch of water. The gym was the newest addition tothe school. Mr. Malson closed the gym. The janitor found the leak and stopped it.The janitor is the best assistant that Mr. Malson has.
At the end of the day, Mr. Malson had one more problem to solve. LeroyCooper missed his bus home. Leroy was a student of Ms. Thompson. Mr. Malsonsolved that problem by driving Leroy home.
Plural and Possessive Nouns (continued from page 37)
▲■WORKBOOK PLUS38 Grade 6: Unit 2 Nouns (Use with pupil book pages 101–103.)
Skill: Students will write the plural and possessive forms of nouns.
A Paragraph
Choose a current event that interests you. Write a paragraph to tell futurehistorians about that event. Include two plural nouns, two singular possessivenouns, and two plural possessive nouns in your paragraph.
