Sunday, February 19, 2017

Monday, February 20th- 7th Grade- Word Formatting

Archdale-Trinity Middle School
Lesson Plan
Date: 02-20-2017


Teacher:
Witkowski

Lesson/Unit Topic:
Understanding Word formatting skills- vocabulary

Standards:
Understanding Word formatting skills



“I Can…” Statement
Criteria for Success-Formative/Summative Assessments
I can format a Word document


Literacy/Vocabulary Strategies (Word Wall)

Portrait- the page orientation in which height of page is greater than width

Landscapepage orientation in which width of page is greater than height 



Bell-Ringer/Connecting Strategy

1. Go to wclassroom.blogspot.com
2. Go to your lunch number and open your typing file
   We are typing the letter N words

Lesson-Instructional Strategies & Procedures for Teacher and Students
(Detailed Plans Including Best Practices, Researched Based Strategies)

Guided Lesson:
Go to Computer- Student Doc- Witkowski folder- Word folder-
     open the 2 Formatting and Editing Skills
 file. 
@ Students will learn:
     * the difference between portrait and landscape

                   *portrait- the page orientation in which height of page is greater than width
                   *landscape- page orientation in which width of page is greater than height 
     * the difference between cut/copy/paste
                   *cut-  removes text or graphics from the current location
                   *copy- copied to another location
                   *paste- places text/graphics that have been cut/copied to new location
     * clipboard- the temporary storage location for text/graphics that have been cut/copied     
     * double space- the when 1 line is left between lines of text, hit enter key twice
     * font - a specific design for a collection of letters, numbers, and symbols
Independent Exercise
@ Students will practice new word formatting skills 
@ If time: Students will hang their thesaurus assignment on the wall.     





Higher Order Thinking Questions

How are documents formatted?

Student Technology/Differentiation

Students will format a Word document

Closure Strategy

Exit Activity 1
Easy matching 
http://www.quia.com/mc/1815326.html 
Exit Activity 2  Paragraph formatting
http://www.quia.com/rr/1048604.html

Exit Activity 3
Paragraph formatting- http://www.quia.com/hm/728026.html
Words we have not covered yet:
Endnotes- (bibliography) source references placed at the end of a document
Leaders- series of periods between two set of tabs
Tabs- used to align data into groups leaders can be used to guide the reader
Footnotes-  source documents placed at the bottom of the same page
Tables- text in columns and rows
Paragraph Headings- keyed at the beginning of a paragraph to give the reader
an quick idea about the content of the paragraph


Exit Activity 4
Play until you win a million dollars  http://www.quia.com/rr/1026034.html
Formatting- The way text appears, for example: bold, underline, all caps, with color
Editing- The process of updating a document to make changes, correct errors,
and make it visually appealing


Exit Activity 5
Play until you win a million dollars  
http://www.quia.com/rr/1001187.html
**When you get to this question choose shift key even though cap locks is a better answer
Mark needs to key a list of state abbreviations in all caps.  What is the EASIEST way for him to do this?
**QWERTY is? the most common arrangements of keyboards
**ASDF is the left hand for the keyboard
**What are the measurements of a standard sheet of paper? 8.5 x 11

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