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8th Grade Microsoft Publisher Lesson #1- Black History Postcard Essential Question: How can I use desktop publishing to create a postcard? NTES Standard: 5. Technology Research Tools b. Students use technology tools to process data and report results. By the End of Grade 8-Students know how to search and sort information in an electronic database using multiple criteria, add and delete records, and identify strategies for finding specific information. Resources: Student Rubric: Click Here Points: Points Save As: “LastNameFirstIntial”Postcard Directions: Podcast Create Black History Postcards Summary: What better way is there for students to understand the people who made history than to walk aroundin their shoes? History can come alive when students write and send postcards from famous historical figures. For example, a student could create a postcard from Frederick Douglas telling about what he was doing to end slavery, Muhammad Ali writing a friend to talk about his political reasons for avoiding the draft or Dizzy Gillespie announcing a jazz concert. Postcards can be sent for all kinds of reasons. Project Description Final Product: Three post cards from three different prominent African-Americans from three different centuries. Timeline: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday….Due Friday. (Thursday is field trip) You will research three prominent African-Americans who have left a lasting impact upon the world. One of the people you select must be from the 18th century (1700s), one must be from the 19th century (1800s), and one must be from the 20th and/or 21st century (1900s-2000s). You will research their accomplishments and what they did to make the world a better place. For your postcard, you will pretend that you are them and you are writing a postcard from the high point of their careers. Your postcard will be addressed to Mr. Phipps’ class at DMS in the year 2011. Your subjects will be filling my class in on what is going on in their lives during their peak of achievement. Be creative! Here is an example to help you see what your final product should look similar to. Front Side
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Step 1- Use research sheet to collect the information you will need to write your postcards. Have students research a famous African-American on this site. You will see 7 different categories that you can browse. You must select 3 people from 3 different centuries off this site. Know facts about the lives of each person. They could list important data, using Microsoft Office Word 2007, before they write their postcards. Possible facts about an historical figure might include: · The time period the person was alive. · Where he or she lived. · Why she or he is famous. · Basic events of the person's life. Step 2- Watch the video as the will show you how to make postcard. Watch this video. It will tell you what we are asking you to do and how to do it. Step 3- Setting Up Your Postcard Use a postcard template in Microsoft Office Publisher 2007. Start a new postcard in Publisher 2007 1. Open Publisher 2007, or in the File menu, click New. If you want students to use a template that you created, they can open the template file the same way they would any other Publisher 2007 file. (For example, in the File menu, click Open.) 2. In the left pane, under Publication Types, click Postcards. 3. In the center pane, select the type you want. 4. In the right pane, view a larger thumbnail preview of the template. 5. Under Customize, you can select a different color and font scheme. Also, under Business information, click Create new to enter information about the sender. You may have to be creative and make some of this up or delete and make blank. 6. Under Options, select a half page Page size , and select speaker notes under Side 2 information . 7. Click Create, and Publisher 2007 creates your postcard. 8. Save as... Postcard1 (the 2nd on Postcard2, 3rd on Postcard3) Step 4- What information goes on each side (Example Above) EACH TEXTBOX (PLACEHOLDER) IN THE TEMPLATE WILL HAVE TEXT ALREADY IN IT. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TYPE WHAT IT TELLS YOU TO IN EACH BOX. Ex. IF THE TEXTBOOK SAYS BUSINESS NAME... YOU CAN PUT ANYTHING. YOU MAY EVEN WANT TO ENLARGE THE FONT IN SOME OF THE TEXTBOXES. Page 1 of your postcard is the side that will contain the actual writing and facts from your person in history. Remember when you are writing this it should be in 1st person because you are in their shoes writing to Mr. Phipps' class. Page 2 of your postcard should have the sender's address (which is where your person lived or was from) and the recipient's address (which is the person receiving the postcard). Step 5- Decorating You will want to make your postcard look nice by adding clipart and pictures. It should not look bare or empty especially on side 1.Make sure your postcard has only meaningful placeholders and text boxes located on it. Get rid of anything that is unnecessary by Right-Clicking< and deleting. Click Save. Step 6- Repeat Steps 3-4 2 more times to make your 3 postcards.
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