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Microsoft Word Lessons#1- Autobiography Essential Question: Can I create a neatly formatted paper by using basic function of Microsoft Word? NTES Standard: 1. Basic Operations and Concepts By the End of Grade 7- 3) Students know how to use application features (e.g., columns, tables, headers and footers, borders, drawing menu bar) and a variety of other toolbars to format and publish content projects and products. By the End of Grade 8 4) Students know how to use the electronic dictionary, thesaurus, spelling and grammar checker, and editing features to maximize accuracy in development of technology-produced products. Resources: Copies of Layout Sheet, Copies of Rubric/Self Check Student Rubric and Self Check: Click Here Points: 20 Points Save As: “LASTNAMEFIRSTINTIAL”AUTO Directions: Podcast STEP 1. Write an Autobiography because "I WANNA KNOW" about you. One option is to follow the format below. Another option is to be creative and organize on your own. You must have 5 paragraphs with at least 3 sentences in each. PARAGRAPH 1- Birth Sentence 1- Your Full Name Sentence 2- Birth Date and Time Sentence 3- Birth Place (City, State and Hospital)
PARAGRAPH 2- Family and Friends Sentence 1- Your Parents Sentence 2- Your Immediate Family and Their Ages (Brother, Sisters) Sentence 3- Do you live in a house, apartment …? Sentence 4- How long have you lived where you are currently living? Sentence 5- Who are your best friends?
PARAGRAPH 3- Education Sentence 1- Where did you attend Elementary School? Sentence 2- What is your favorite subject in school? Sentence 3- Who is your favorite teacher? Sentence 4- If you could change one thing about school, what would it be? Sentence 5- Do you plan on attending college? If yes, where?
PARAGRAPH 4- Your experience using the computer. Sentence 1- Do you have access to a computer and the Internet at home? Sentence 2- Have you ever created a Webpage or any other items that are currently on the Internet? Sentence 3- Have you ever created a movie, an audio file or any other Multimedia piece?
PARAGRAPH 5- Things you control and that you can change. Sentence 1- If you could change anything in your life, what would it be? Sentence 2- Do you have any control over what you would change? Sentence 3- What do you hate to do more than anything in the world? Sentence 4- Have you ever ended up liking something that you though you would hate? Explain.
PARAGRAPH 6- 20-Year Plan Whole paragraph- In 20 years, what do you picture your life like?
STEP 2. You Need to Add a Watermark You Have Saved to Your Computer· Go save a picture on the Internet that tells something about you. You do that by right clicking on the picture and go to Save Picture As... Make sure you know where you are saving your picture to. · Go to Page Layout, Watermark, Custom Watermark, Picture Waterwark and find where you saved your picture. STEP 3. Inserting Word Art to Add Your Name as the Title
STEP 4. Line Spacing
STEP 5. Add a Header to Your Page May only show in Print Preview.
STEP 6. Add Page Numbers Placing page numbers at the bottom of the page is also something that is useful to the reader. May only show in Print Preview.
STEP 7. Spell Check and Thesaurus Spell Check allows you to catch most of the typing errors you may have in your paragraphs. They will not catch errors with homonyms, i.e. their, there, they're.
Thesaurus allows you to make improvements in Word Choice. Make sure you choose a word that you know.
STEP 8. After you have finished, save! DON’T PRINT YET! STEP 9. Have another student proof read your paper! On the computer, students need to read each other's papers looking for grammatical errors and punctuation errors. STEP 10. Make the corrections suggested by proofreader. STEP 11. Print one copy, attach a rubric and place in designated tray. STEP 12. After you have completed assignment, you may go to....
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