Grammar and Writing: Grade Level 5 (Voyages in English 2011) (Volume 5) - Hardcover

Healey IHM MA, Sister Patricia; Kervick IHM MA, Sister Irene; McGuire IHM MA, Sister Anne B.; Saybolt IHM MA, Sister Adrienne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0829428194 ISBN 13: 9780829428193

Publisher: Loyola Press, 2010

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About this title

About the Author

Patricia Healey, IHM
BA, Immaculata University
MA, Temple University
20 years teaching; 20 years in administration

Anne B. McGuire, IHM
BA, Immaculata University
MA, Villanova University
MA, Immaculata University
16 years teaching; 14 years as elementary principal; 10 years staff development

Irene Kervick, IHM
BA, Immaculata University
MA, Villanova University
46 years teaching

Adrienne Saybolt, IHM
BA, Immaculata University
Pennsylvania State Board of Education, professional certification
MA, St. John’s University
40 years teaching
 

From the Back Cover

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Part 1: Grammar

Section One: Nouns

1.1 Common and Proper Nouns
1.2 Singular and Plural Nouns
1.3 More Singular and Plural Nouns
1.4 Possessive Nouns
1.5 Collective Nouns
1.6 Nouns as Subjects and Subject Complements
1.7 Nouns as Objects
1.8 Nouns as Indirect Objects
1.9 Nouns in Direct Address
1.10 Words Used as Nouns or as Verbs
1.11 Words Used as Nouns or as Adjectives
Noun Review
Noun Challenge

1.1 Common and Proper Nouns

A noun is a word that names a person, a place, or a thing.
A common noun names any one of a class of people, places, or things.

Person       Place       Thing
skater         rink           ice skates
citizen         country     flag
writer          library       book
governor    capital      law

A proper noun names a particular person, place, or thing. Proper nouns begin with capital letters.

Person                    Place                    Thing
Shawn Johnson    Iowa                     Olympics
Nelson Mandela   South Africa        Nobel Peace Prize
Columbus              Spain                   Santa Maria
Anne Frank             Europe                Bill of Rights

EXERCISE 1: Tell whether each noun names a person, a place, or a thing. Then tell whether each is a common noun or a proper noun.

1. James Naismith
2. Massachusetts
3. inventor
4. teacher
5. basket
6. scoreboard
7. gym
8. Indiana
9. uniform
10. coach
11. LeBron James
12. Boston Garden
13. fan
14. seat
15. Yao Ming

EXERCISE 2: Tell whether each noun is a proper noun or a common noun. Then write a common noun for each proper noun and a proper noun for each common noun.

1. song
2. Apollo
3. city
4. Pablo Picasso
5. landmark
6. writer
7. athlete
8. Rhode Island
9. actor
10. Canada

EXERCISE 3: Identify the nouns in each sentence. Tell whether each names a person, a place, or a thing. Tell whether each is a common noun or a proper noun. The number of nouns in each sentence is shown in parentheses.

1. Michael Jordan was born in New York. (2)
2. When Michael was a baby, his family moved to North Carolina. (4)
3. Jordan played basketball in high school. (3)
4. The teen was cut from the team. (2)
5. His practice got the young man off the bench. (3)
6. The young athlete later led the University of North Carolina to a national championship. (3)
7. Jordan helped the United States win a gold medal at the Olympics. (4)
8. The now-respected player joined the Bulls, the professional team in Chicago. (4)
9. Jordan became a superstar in professional basketball. (3)
10. His incredible talent and his likable personality earned him
11. fans around the world. (4)

EXERCISE 4: Complete each sentence with nouns.

1. I like to play _____ and _____.
2. My favorite athletes are _____ and _____.
3. Sports I like to watch are _____ and _____.
4. The _____ and the _____ are places where I play sports.

Apply It Now
Write 10 nouns related to an athlete or a sport that interests you. Identify each as a common or a proper noun.

Grammar in Action
Identify all the proper nouns in the page 225 excerpt.

 

Part 2: Written and Oral Communication

Chapters

1. Personal Narratives
2. How-to Articles
3. Business Letters
4. Descriptions
5. Reports
6. Creative Writing: Tall Tales
7. Persuasive Writing
8. Research Reports

Personal Narratives

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Sunday, 14 June, 1942
    On Friday, June 12th, I woke up and no wonder; it was my birthday. But of course I was not allowed to get up at that hour, so I had to control my curiosity until a quarter to seven. Then I could bear it no longer, and went to the dining room, where I received a warm welcome from Moortje (the cat).
    Soon after seven I went to Mummy and Daddy and then to the sitting room to undo my presents. The first to greet me was you, possibly the nicest of all. Then on the table there were a bunch of roses, a plant, and some peonies, and more arrived during the day.
    I got masses of things from Mummy and Daddy, and was thoroughly spoiled by various friends. Among other things I was given Camera Obscura, a party game, lots of sweets, chocolates, a puzzle, a brooch, Tales and Legends of the Netherlands by Joseph Cohen, Daisy’s Mountain Holiday (a terrific book), and some money.

A personal narrative tells a story about something that happened to the writer. Young Anne Frank wrote about her life when she and her family hid from the Nazis
during World War II.

Alicia Brueggemann
Room 105
Knight of the Road
    Last year my family took a trip to the Grand Canyon, but we never reached it. What we saw instead was a lot of water. And while our van didn’t survive the trip, we did make a new friend along the way.
    The trip started smoothly. It wasn’t until we reached the Mississippi River that we ran into trouble. I could see thunderheads gathering over the horizon and heard the low rumbling of thunder in the distance. Rain began to fall. At first the drops hit the van unevenly, then all at once we were in a raging storm. It was like driving through Niagara Falls.
    Suddenly, we came to a place in the highway where water had gathered in a pool. Dad couldn’t see how deep it was, but it quickly became very deep. The van fishtailed and spun around. I grabbed the handle above the side door. My sister Jenny saw something outside her window, and her eyes grew as big as saucers. I looked in her direction and saw it too. It was an 18-wheel truck, and it looked like it was bearing down on us. Luckily, the truck had stopped at the edge of the pool of water. I could see the driver climb out of the cab.
    He ran to our van, carrying a flashlight. When he reached us, he offered us help. Dad told us to pick up our stuff, and we quickly got out. Just as we cleared the van, it started moving. We stood in the rain and watched it float away. The driver said he was sorry about our van. Then he offered to let us sit in the cab of his trailer while we waited for the state police to arrive.
    Mom and Dad looked sad because we lost our van, but when they saw how much fun Jenny and I were having talking to other truckers on the driver’s CB radio, broad smiles broke out on their faces. That’s when I learned that real vacations are not about where you go, but how you get there and who you have along for the ride.

Lesson 1

What Makes a Good Personal Narrative?
A personal narrative tells a story about something that happened to the writer. You can see personal narratives in many kinds of writing. It can be an e-mail from a friend or a personal letter to a relative.
Here are some ideas to remember when you write a personal narrative.

Point of View
Personal narratives are told from the writer’s point of view. This is the first-person point of view. When you write a personal narrative, use words such as I, me, my, our, and we to tell the story.

Topic
The topic of a personal narrative is an experience that actually happened to you. When you select a topic, choose something that has some special meaning for you. Think of times that you have learned something important. Good personal narratives use the experience to show something that readers can think about.

Details
A good personal narrative has many details that paint in the reader’s mind a clear picture of what happened. Descriptive details make events in personal narratives more real to the reader. However, not all details are needed. Unnecessary details can slow down a reader and become distracting.
 
ACTIVITY A: Which idea in each pair is a good idea for a personal narrative? Explain why you chose each one.

1.   a.    how scuba equipment works
      b.    how I learned to swim
2.   a.    when I found a turtle in my garden
      b.    the life cycle of the giant sea turtle
3.   a.    the history of airplanes
      b.    the first time I sailed
4.   a.    why I always wear a hat
       b.   hats from around the world
5.    a.    the rules of baseball
       b.    my trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame
6.    a.    how to get a ticket to an air show
       b.    the day I took a helicopter ride over the city

ACTIVITY B: The personal narratives below each contain two sentences that are not necessary. Which sentences do not belong?

1. My clown act was funnier than I had planned. I had practiced for days until I could balance a red ball on my nose. I borrowed the ball from my cousin Jake. But when I began to perform, I sneezed and dropped the ball. I often catch colds in the summer. I picked it up quickly and balanced it. Afterward, my family said I was so good that I was almost ready to join the circus.
2. Everybody talks about the peace and quiet of the country. My cousin in the country invited me for a weekend. I live on the first floor of an apartment building in the city. The first night at my cousin’s cabin I was sleeping peacefully. Then in the middle of the night, I was awoken by a noise—a rattling of metal. I didn’t want to wake up my cousin. I tried to go back to sleep, but the noise continued. Finally, I woke up my cousin. He told me that it was just the raccoons that came around at night. Raccoons have black fur under their eyes that looks like a mask. By the end of the weekend, I was happy to go back home to the city to get a good night’s sleep.

Writer’s Corner
Brainstorm a list of five possible topics for a personal narrative. Some topics could be the time you first met a friend, an adventure while traveling, or an embarrassing moment. Save your list.

Grammar in Action
Identify the collective noun in the page 214 excerpt.

Diary of Anne Frank
Saturday, 11 July, 1942
I expect you’d be interested to hear what it feels like to “disappear”; well, all I can say is that I don’t know myself yet. I don’t think I shall ever feel really at home in this house, but that does not mean I loathe it here, it is more like being on vacation in a very peculiar boardinghouse. The “Secret Annexe” is an ideal hiding place.

Audience
The kind of information and language you include in your writing will depend on your audience. For example, if you are writing a personal narrative about your family to be read by your teacher, you might tell who your brothers or sisters are.
The writer of the personal narrative on page 215 tells the reader in the third paragraph that her sister’s name is Jenny. When Jenny’s name is mentioned in the last paragraph, the reader knows who Jenny is.
Some details could be unnecessary if the reader knows the people in the personal narrative. For example, if the reader was the writer’s grandmother, do you think the writer would need to tell that Jenny is her sister?

Voice
The voice of a personal narrative tells the reader how the writer feels about what happened. The voice of a personal narrative also tells a little about the writer’s personality. Just as when listening to a person speak, readers can often “hear” the writer’s voice. A writer makes the voice clear by choosing certain adjectives and adverbs.

ACTIVITY C: The following sentence pairs are from personal narratives about a science fair. Each sentence in a pair is written for a different audience—a teacher or a friend. Tell which sentence was written for each audience.

1.    a. You know how I am always trying to invent stuff.
       b. Because you encouraged my interest in science, I wanted to tell you what I invented.
2.    a. I invented a machine that a dog can use to knock on a door.
       b. I figured out how to make a cool doggy door knocker.
3.    a. I entered it in the Palos Park science fair, and I won first prize.
       b. Your buddy’s invention won first prize in our science fair.
4.    a. You can buy me a magazine when I see you next weekend.
       b. Thanks again for all you taught me.

ACTIVITY D: Each example below describes the same event, but each uses a different voice. Read each example. Then answer the questions.

Example 1
Last night I saw the world’s most popular rock band, Jelly, perform at the Horse Castle. Fans jammed the entrances and the aisles, but I managed to get a seat. For the first two hours, the performers delighted us with their classic songs. After intermission the high-spirited Jelly pulled out all the stops. Under the flashing lights, the performers stunned us with hits from their recent album. We lingered long afterwards just to recover from hours of thrills and excitement.

Example 2
Last night’s concert by Jelly was fantastic. There were thousands of people there. In fact there were so many that there were not enough seats for everyone. I could see people jammed in the aisles. I couldn’t figure out why anybody needed a seat anyway. Jelly had everybody hopping along from the moment they started playing. For the first two hours of the concert, there was a light show that was beyond belief. Red and green laser lights waved over the crowd and pulsed in time with the beat. That concert was one of the coolest times I’ve ever had.

1. Which example uses a serious voice?
2. Which example uses an excited voice?
3. What words from the serious example lead you to think the voice is serious?
4. What words from the excited piece lead you to think the writer was excited about the concert?

Writer’s Corner
Freewrite about what happened when you woke up this morning. Write the events from the first-person point of view and include necessary details.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Loyola Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0829428194
• ISBN 13: 9780829428193
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 560