1. Week 10 Word, Email, Internet Research

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

3. Why go back to Word? Practice what we have learned Extend what we have learned English teachers want more!

4. Where do you get your news?

5. 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”

6. 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

7. 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

8. Day 2 No one writes perfectly Everyone needs another “set of eyes” to help. Peer- review –Who is your peer?

9. 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

10. 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

11. Peer review 30 minutes 1)Send Email for peer review 2)Read partners paragraphs 3)Email Comments (and CC: to jjacobson) 4)Read comments sent to you NEXT STEP: revise and reformat

12. 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

13. 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

14. Why are we learning this? Word is a flexible and cool tool English teachers want it Your future boss wants it

15. 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

16. 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

17. Changing Spacing Spacing controls the space between lines in a paragraph. Single Spaced

18. Changing Spacing Spacing controls the space between lines in a paragraph. Double Spaced

19. First Line Indent Better than space, space, space, space, space, space, space, space… Controls the place on the line where the paragraph characters start.

20. 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

21. Left Indent

22. Alignment- Left, Right and Center Controls How an entire paragraph is aligned Easily changed based on need Much better than space, space, space…

23. Example

24. 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