1. Email Etiquette Week 1 Students@madisonk12.us
Understanding Etiquette
Etiquette Week 1

2. Guidelines for Sending Emails
Know your Audience
Friend
Family member (mom, dad, grandmother, etc.)
Teacher
Boss

3. Guidelines for Sending Emails
Make s easy to read
Keep sentences short
Keep paragraphs short
Double space between paragraphs
Use clean, easy to read font

4. Guidelines for Sending Emails
Use a Polite Salutation/Greeting
Formal
Informal
Good morning, Mrs. Tedora,
Mrs. Tedora,
Dear Mrs. Tedora,
Susie,
Hi, Grandma,
Happy Birthday, Grandpa!

5. Guidelines for Sending Emails
Use proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation
DO NOT SCREAM AT YOUR AUDIENCE
CAPITAL letters indicate screaming

6. Guidelines for Sending Emails
Subject line
Never leave your subject line blank
Be clear when writing your subject
Indicate the reason for your

7. Guidelines for Sending Emails
Be polite and clear in your message
Unclear
Could U plz send info on your state.
Clear
My class is studying the history of Virginia. My project is on the historic battlefields in the Shenandoah Valley. Could you please send me some information or refer me to a good website? Thank you very much.
Unclear and not very sweet
Hi Grandma. We’re still on. See ya.
Clear and sweet
Hi Grandma. We’re still on for lunch on Sunday. We’ll be at your house at noon. Can’t wait to see ya!
Sounds Rude
Tomorrow at 10.
Much Better
Thanks for your quick reply. Tomorrow at 10 is great. See you then.

8. Guidelines for Sending Emails
Don’t go overboard with abbreviations
Emotion icons :) :( :/
These are ok in informal messages to friends and family
Do not use these when composing formal s: teacher, boss, or someone you are trying to make a good first impression with

9. Guidelines for Sending Emails
Check Spelling
This means you read your . It is not ok to just use a spell checker
Include a closing
Thank you,
Your student,
Love,

10. Guidelines for Sending Emails
Is always ok?
Sometimes sending an is not good enough. In those situations sit down and write a good, old- fashioned handwritten letter.
Thank you to a relative for a gift
Thank you to a teacher for writing a letter of recommendation

11. Guidelines for Sending Emails
Assessment
This evening compose an to me responding to the following two questions regarding your reading for tonight’s homework. Each question should be its own paragraph and follow all of the applicable guidelines that were presented in this lesson.
Questions
#1: Discuss the reading that you find the most enjoyable and why.
#2 : Select one word from any of the selections that you find powerful and explain why, its significance.

12. SAMPLE Angela.tedora@madisonk12.us
Include an appropriate subject for the assignment here
Use an appropriate greeting/salutation,
It is important to write a sentence or two here introducing the answers to your questions. If you just start right off typing the answers to the questions your will be graded as unclear.
The next paragraph is your answer to question number 1. This should be written in complete sentences. Remember paragraph guidelines.
Followed by your answer to question number 2. Again, this should be written in complete sentences.
And then your closing, and your name.