Saturday, December 5, 2015

Monday, December 7th- 7th Grade- Using the Thesaurus

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Archdale-Trinity Middle School
Lesson Plan
Date: 12-07-2015




Teacher:
Witkowski

Lesson/Unit Topic:
Understanding Word formatting skills- Using the Thesaurus

Standards:
Understanding Word formatting skills




“I Can…” Statement
Criteria for Success-Formative/Summative Assessments
I can use the Thesaurus.
Signed interim reports are due.
Test next Tuesday, December 15th



Literacy/Vocabulary Strategies (Word Wall)


Thesaurus the word processing feature that allows you to
find words with similar meanings (synonyms)
for the text within a document. Click on the REVIEW Tab.


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Bell-Ringer/Connecting Strategy

1. Go to wclassroom.blogspot.com


2. Open a new Word document
    Go to Applications- Microsoft Office- MS Word

3. Go to Computer- Student Docs- Witkowski folder- Word Processing folder-
 Open 3 Thesaurus file 


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

Guided Lesson:
@ Test next Tuesday, December 15th

@ Students will learn to use the Thesaurus feature
Independent Exercise
  @ Students will complete Thesaurus Activity

  @ Students will complete Exit Activity 3 to review vocabulary terms

  @ Students will go to at https://quizlet.com/
 
 @ Students will add 5 new terms from the 2 Vocabulary file to their flashcard list.

@ Students will play "scatter" with their vocabulary flashcards at https://quizlet.com/

 @ Students will draw 2 vocabulary words to create a audio/picture recording.
Rough drafts will be written today (on Monday),
we will practice on Monday and we will record on Tuesday.
  





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
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 4
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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