Week 10Word, Email, Internet Research
Assignment List
• LA Times.com article– Read– Write 3 paragraphs (draft)
• Peer Editing – Email to Neighbor– Receive and Give Feedback
• Revise and Format Paragraphs
Why go back to Word?
• Practice what we have learned
• Extend what we have learned
• English teachers want more!
Where do you get your news?
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”
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– TOOLS>DICTIONARY
• Save file in server folder
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
Day 2
• No one writes perfectly
• Everyone needs another “set of eyes” to help.
• Peer- review– Who is your peer?
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
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
Peer review
30 minutes 1) Send Email for peer review2) Read partners paragraphs3) Email Comments (and CC: to jjacobson)4) Read comments sent to you
NEXT STEP: revise and reformat
Revise your own paragraphs
• Collect feedback from your peer• Revise the grammar, spelling, word choice
and clarity of your writing– Use Spell Check – TOOLS>SPELLING and GRAMMAR
• Save you work– Be sure you know which file is your most
recent
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
Why are we learning this?
• Word is a flexible and cool tool
• English teachers want it
• Your future boss wants it
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
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
Changing Spacing
• Spacing controls the space between lines in a paragraph.
Single Spaced
Changing Spacing
• Spacing controls the space between lines in a paragraph.
Double Spaced
First Line Indent• Better than space, space, space, space,
space, space, space, space…
• Controls the place on the line where the paragraph characters start.
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
Left Indent
Alignment- Left, Right and Center
• Controls How an entire paragraph is aligned
• Easily changed based on need
• Much better than space, space, space…
Example
Assignment- Formatting your Paragraphs
• Find and Open instructions in file on desktop
• CA Word Format Project
• Email to Mr. Jacobson
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