Week 10 Word, Email, Internet Research

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Week 10Word, Email, Internet Research
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Assignment List

• LA Times.com article
• Read
• Write 3 paragraphs (draft)
• Peer Editing
• Email to Neighbor
• Receive and Give Feedback
• Revise and Format Paragraphs

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Why go back to Word?

• Practice what we have learned
• Extend what we have learned
• English teachers want more!

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Where do you get your news?
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Internet News

• Special Skill to read for comprehension on a
  computer screen
• Web sites are always changing
• Your children will probably not have a newspaper

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Assignment

• Open the file CAWritingPrompt
• The file contains both a reading and a writing
  prompt
• Use the dictionary in Word as needed
• Select word in question
• TOOLSgtDICTIONARY
• Save file in server folder

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Closure

• What do you think the main point of the article
  was?
• Share With you neighbor
• Raise you hand and share with the class
• What aspect of education would you fix?
• Share with you neighbor
• Raise you hand and share with the class

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Day 2

• No one writes perfectly
• Everyone needs another set of eyes to help.
• Peer- review
• Who is your peer?

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Assignment

• Email a copy of your paragraphs to your assigned
  neighbor
• (you will have to talk to them a little bit)
• Read your neighbors paragraphs
• Make comments as needed
• Save As- with revised in the name
• Send back to neighbor
• CC Mr. Jacobson

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What does CC and BCC do?

• CC stands for Carbon Copy- you are sending an
  exact copy of what you sent to the person in the
  TO line
• BCC stands for Blind Carbon Copy- you are sending
  an exact copy of what you sent to the person in
  the TO line, but that person does not know
  that you sent a copy out

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Peer review

• 30 minutes
• Send Email for peer review
• Read partners paragraphs
• Email Comments (and CC to jjacobson)
• Read comments sent to you
• NEXT STEP revise and reformat

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Revise your own paragraphs

• Collect feedback from your peer
• Revise the grammar, spelling, word choice and
  clarity of your writing
• Use Spell Check
• TOOLSgtSPELLING and GRAMMAR
• Save you work
• Be sure you know which file is your most recent

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Word Formatting-Practice

• Inserting Page Breaks
• Changing Spacing (single vs. double)
• Applying Indentation to Paragraphs
• First Line Indent
• Left Indent
• Applying Alignment to Paragraphs
• Left, Right and Center

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Why are we learning this?

• Word is a flexible and cool tool
• English teachers want it
• Your future boss wants it

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Remember our Model for Word?

• Document- A container for paragraphs
• Paragraph- A container for characters and
  pictures
• Characters

All of our formatting today is with paragraphs
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Inserting Page Breaks

• A page break forces your document to start a new
  page (for page layout view and printing)
• Better than return, return, return, return,
  return, return, return
• You are able to keep all pages (title pages,
  bibliographies) in your document

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Changing Spacing

• Spacing controls the space between lines in a
  paragraph.

Single Spaced
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Changing Spacing

• Spacing controls the space between lines in a
  paragraph.

Double Spaced
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First Line Indent

• Better than space, space, space, space, space,
  space, space, space
• Controls the place on the line where the
  paragraph characters start.

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Left Indent

• Controls the left edge of where every line in the
  paragraph starts
• Much better than space, space, space, oh wait,
  space, space, space, next line, space space,
  space, next line

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Left Indent
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Alignment- Left, Right and Center

• Controls How an entire paragraph is aligned
• Easily changed based on need
• Much better than space, space, space

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Example
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Assignment- Formatting your Paragraphs

• Find and Open instructions in file on desktop
• CA Word Format Project
• Email to Mr. Jacobson
• Up Next- More in Excel