Name:_________________________________________ Date:___________ Period:_________

Proper and Common Nouns

1. Mark and his parents went to the Black American West Museum and Heritage
Center in Denver.
2. The museum displays many items that cowboys used.
3. These items are from the collection of Paul Stewart, the man who founded the
museum.
4. Mark saw saddles, knives, hats, and lariats.
5. He also saw many pictures of African American cowboys.
6. The museum is located in an old house that is listed in the National Register
of Historic Places.
7. The house once belonged to Dr. Justina L Ford.
8. She was the first black female physician in Colorado.
9. Mark was amazed by all of the old medical instruments in one display.
10.He said he was glad doctors dont use equipment like that anymore.
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Long ago, many people could not read.

Instead, they would memorize stories.
Then they would tell the stories to their family members and friends.
In this way, the people, or folk, passed the tales on from generation to
generation.
5. Finally, some people wrote the collected stories.

6. Two German brothers, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, published a famous

collection of German folk tales.
7. Their collection of stories became extremely popular all over the world.
8. The brothers had heard many of the tales from their older relatives.
9. Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Rumpelstiltskin were all preserved by
the brothers Grimm.
10.In your library, you can probably find these tales and many others too.
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Peanuts remain an important crop around the world.

The peanut, which is high in protein, is native to South America.
Peanuts grow ripe underground.
The seeds are the edible part of the plant.
The peanut has become an important ingredient in more than three hundred
common products, such as wood stains, shampoo, printers ink, and soap.
6. Of course, roasting peanuts smell wonderful.
7. Peanut butter was the invention of a St. Louis doctor in 1890.
8. Before then, thanks to George Washington Carver, the peanut had become
one of the major crops of the South.
9. Carver, a scientist who experimented with peanuts and other plants had been
a slave.
10.It may seem strange, but Carver once prepared an entire dinner out of
peanuts.
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The photograph at the right shows John Johnson as a success.

Johnsons life has not always been easy.
The small Arkansas town of his childhood had no high school.
Therefore, Johnsons mother moved to Chicago.
In Chicago, Johnson attended high school with classmates Redd Foxx and Nat
King Cole.
6. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Johnsons family grew very poor.
7. However, Johnson studied hard.
8. He became an honor student, the class president, and the editor of the high
school newspaper.

9. Johnson started his first magazine with a loan.

10.Now is the owner of a group of companies worth $200 million per year.