1. Mr. Verlin South Philadelphia High School October 12, 2010

2. Preliminaries: How did I do that? (12 constructed response pts.) John Jones 123 S. 5 th Street Philadelphia, PA 19130 October 15, 2009 Mr. Stan Pokras 1524 Brandywine Street Philadelphia, PA 19130 Dear Mr. Pokras John Jones 123 S. 5 th Street Philadelphia, PA 19130 October 15, 2009 Mr. Stan Pokras 1524 Brandywine Street Philadelphia, PA 19130 Dear Mr. Pokras:

3. Review: Changing Text and Paragraph Appearance  Evaluate the visual appeal of paragraph layout.  Define the concept of a paragraph.  Describe the difference between normal view and print layout view.  Identify instances in business letters where paragraph breaks should occur.

4. Objectives  By being able to do the following, you will be able to make your business letters more attractive and easier to read:  Indent the first line of a paragraph.  Properly align the columns of tabular text.  You will know that you accomplished these when:  The decimal points in dollar values of tabular text align.

5. Focus Lesson: Changing Paragraph Appearance (30 classwork pts.)  Indentation  Load your Pokras letters. If you didn’t do one, copy and paste at least 5 lines of text into a blank Word document from any class appropriate website.  Delete everything except the body of the letter.  Complete step #9 on exercise #8 (p. #3).  Decimal Tab: complete steps #15-#19.