Week of March 28 - April 1 (Week A)

Monday, March 28 The theme of the week is Music. When you need to write about something, write about music.

Create 2 separate pages

Landscape NOT portrait (landscape is sideways from the normal way you would print out an essay)

Each page should have 2 inch margins on the top

2 inch margins on each side

And 4 inch margins on the bottom

Write an MLA heading (NOT IN THE HEADER)

Insert Personalized Page Numbers (from last week’s lessons)

On page 1 you should write a paragraph about music but it should be in two columns

On page 2 you should copy the same paragraph but have it ONE column Tuesday, March 29 Can you count all the mistakes in the poem above? Spell check isn't going to catch them. Will you?

Copy the text below and paste it into a new Word document.

Use the spelling and grammar checks to make corrections... but BE CAREFUL... there are some mistakes you will have to catch with YOUR OWN EYES!

Naerly one hunred percent of all artichokes grown comercialy in the United States are grewn in Califrnia. While artichokes are a small indistry compared to brocoli grapes and letuce they add over $50 million to the econemy of the staite and a hole lot of panache.

Approximately 75% of the state's total acreage lays within Monterey County. Now here else in the world is there such a concentrated area of producton, consistently yeelding nearly 4 million cartoons of delicious artichokes every year. Recognizing that no other vegetable grown in Monterey County can clam such prominence the Board of Supervisors of Monterey County declared the artichoke too bee "the Official Vegetable of Monte rey" in 1986.

Wednesday, March 30

Project due on April 6

Thursday, March 31 Continue working on your essay. Friday, April 1 Blogging Agenda: Adding a video from You Tube There are a couple of ways to add a video from You Tube to your blog. This is the way I would like you to try: Start by signing into Blogger and clicking New Post. Then, go to You Tube Search for a video that relates to your blog topic. After you have selected your chosen video, look below it for the button that says: EMBED Click Embed. It will give you a line of funny looking text. This is HTML code. Copy the complete code. Come back to your "New Post" page on Blogger. Notice in the upper right hand corner of the Blogger window there are two tabs. One says Edit Html, the other says Compose. Click Edit Html. Paste the HTML CODE that you copied from You Tube. Click Compose (if you want to add some text to your post) or Publish Post and you will see your video embedded in your new blog post.

Once you have embedded your video, write about it (in the same post) and email me the link TO YOUR POST (This is not the same as the URL of your blog... the individual posts have their own URLs).

**The title of your post is a clickable link. If you click this like you will see the post's unique URL in the browser bar.

Week of March 21-25 (Week B)

The theme this week is food... favorite foods, most hated foods, but when you need to write something, food is the thing you should write about.
PLEASE NOTE: The directions for your final work product for Monday and Wednesday's lessons are embedded in the lesson itself. You must follow along with the lesson so you don't miss any steps!


Monday, March 21





Tuesday, March 22





Work Product:

• 2 pages


• MLA Heading


• Personalized page numbers at the top of the page


• Write a paragraph about this week's theme on page 1

Do WHATEVER you want on page 2 that connects to this week’s theme. IT MAY NOT BE BLANK!



Wednesday, March 23





Email me your finished product!



Thursday, March 24
Using templates in Word







After making the certificate, try this:

• Search the templates under the heading INVITATIONS and the subheading PARTY INVITATIONS.
• Find the Birthday Invitation with the picture of a boy in a swimming pool. It says Happy Birthday Oliver and has a big number 6.
• Change the picture, the name, and the age on the invitation. What else can you change?

EMAIL ME the certificate you made AND the birthday invitation.
Both can be emailed as attachments in the same email!!!



Friday, March 25
Blogging
Agenda: Adding a video from You Tube





There are a couple of ways to add a video from You Tube to your blog.
This is the way I would like you to try:
Start by signing into Blogger and clicking New Post.
Then, go to You Tube
Search for a video that relates to your blog topic.
After you have selected your chosen video, look below it for the button that says: EMBED
Click Embed. It will give you a line of funny looking text. This is HTML code.
Copy the complete code.
Come back to your "New Post" page on Blogger.
Notice in the upper right hand corner of the Blogger window there are two tabs. One says Edit Html, the other says Compose.
Click Edit Html.
Paste the HTML CODE that you copied from You Tube.
Click Compose (if you want to add some text to your post) or Publish Post and you will see your video embedded in your new blog post.

Once you have embedded your video, write about it (in the same post) and email me the link TO YOUR POST (This is not the same as the URL of your blog... the individual posts have their own URLs).

**The title of your post is a clickable link. If you click this like you will see the post's unique URL in the browser bar.

Week of March 14-18 (A-Week)

This week's theme may be shoes, but animals are what I like best, so here's a picture my mom took a while back of a humming bird in her back yard. Pretty cool, huh?

This week we have changed a few things for you.
Please notice that your instructions are below in the form of pages in Word which have been turned into pictures. Click each page to enlarge it so that you can read the pages and follow the directions! As always, assignments are in red.
Theme of the Week: This week whenever you’re asked to write about something you should write about shoes. You can write about sneakers, the best shoes to wear for different activities, your favorite shoes, least favorite shoes etc.


Monday, March 14


Before you continue, please open Word, create a new blank document and write a paragraph on this week's theme: Shoes.




Save the document you made: the paragraph about shoes. Save it as a 97-2003 Word Document and as a PDF. Make sure your MLA heading is at the top of the page and that you are saving the document with your name and the date as its file name.
Close both the Word Document and the PDF after saving.

Finally... use the RECENT DOCUMENTS menu to open both versions of your document. See what the differences are between the Word Document and the PDF.
In your word document, in another paragraph, write what you have observed about these 2 types of files. Save it again and email it to me!

Tuesday, March 15

Open MS Word and the document you made yesterday. Use the document to explore the VIEW tabs functions as described below.


Close yesterday's document and create a new document. Write a paragraph about what you have observed through the tools under the views tab. Which of these tools will be most useful to you when using Word? Why?


Wednesday, March 16

Work Product- Open a NEW Word document. Create a name tag where each letter of your full name is a different color, font and size and includes 3 symbols.

Please include your MLA heading and don't for get to save as yourname031611.doc

Email your work to me.

Thursday,March 17

Work Product:

MLA Heading

Create a bullet pointed list of 5 things you use computers for

Create a numbered list of your top 5 anything (foods, movies, books).

Type a paragraph about your favorite thing to eat for lunch, double spaced, 12 point font, times new roman or arial

Copy that paragraph and paste it RIGHT below. Then cut the first sentence and paste it at the end of the paragraph. Lastly, center the whole paragraph

Friday, March 18

WEEK A - 1st Period Only
Blogging (in room 313)