HMH School girl I am Malala

HMH School girl I am Malala

Proper noun

Capitalization In this lesson, you will learn about the capitalization of proper nouns. A proper noun names a specific person, place, thing, or idea.

Haji Baba Road was a jumble of brightly colored rickshaws, women in flowing robes, men on scooters. . . .

As a proper noun, Haji Baba Road is capitalized because it names a specific place and thing. As you read the selection, notice how the author uses capitalization to distinguish proper nouns.

SETTING A PURPOSE

As you read, pay attention to the details the author includes to convey ideas about her life at home, at school, and in her community. Use these details to help you answer these questions: What kind of person is Malala? What is most important to her?

LANGUAGE CONVENTIONS:

CAPITALIZATION Writers capitalize proper nouns to distinguish them from common nouns. Recall that a proper noun names a particular person, place, thing, or idea; a common noun is a general name for a person, place, thing, or idea. Proper nouns include languages, cities, ethnicities, school names, brands, titles, organizations and their abbreviations, initials that stand for someone’s name, and acronyms (words formed by combining the initial letters of a series of words). In the selection, capitalization is used in the following ways.

CATEGORY OF PROPER NOUN

• Titles used before a name, names of people, and names of businesses:the Khushal School bus

• Titles used before a name, names of people, and names of businesses:Dr. Humayun’s Hair Transplant Institute

• Organizations and their acronyms:British Broadcasting Corporation

  BBC

• Countries:Pakistan

• Ethnicities:Pashtun

• Titles of books, chapters, published works, and newspapers :Quran

  “A Schoolgirl’s Diary”

  “I Am Afraid”

  New York Times

Pronouns

• Days of the week, months of the year: Tuesday

  October

Practice and Apply Write your own sentences with proper nouns, using the examples from I Am Malala as models. Your sentences can be about Malala Yousafzai or your own experiences with challenges and persistence. When you have finished, share your sentences with a partner and compare your work.

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my favorite books are green eggs and ham and horton hears a who.

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terry and louis went to central park last july.

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did you know that abraham lincoln was the sixteenth president?

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she has a friend from london, england.

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Do you like to debate? Why or why not?

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What kind of edict might you defy? Why?

Edict means

e·dict

/ˈēdikt/

noun

an official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority."Clovis issued an edict protecting Church property"

defy

de·fy

/dəˈfī/

verb

verb: defy; 3rd person present: defies; past tense: defied; past participle: defied; gerund or present participle: defying

openly resist or refuse to obey.

pseudonym

pseu·do·nym

/ˈso͞odənim/

noun

noun: pseudonym; plural noun: pseudonyms

a fictitious name, especially one used by an author."I wrote under the pseudonym of Evelyn Hervey"

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4. If you wanted to use a pseudonym, what would you choose? Why?

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