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1. Click to read the digital version of the article (the third link down).
2. Then click on the first link "World War II and the Holocaust Video with Maps" to see an illustrated map of the Holocaust. Make sure your headphones are plugged in or your volume is turned all the way down.
to take an interactivea quiz on the article. Interactive Quiz You will click and typeWrite your answers. Then click "Email" at the topanswers on a sheet of paper (letter answer only is fine for the page with the quiz.first eight). Type your answers in thisan email address: tracy.jacqueline@brevardschools.org to email me your answers.through the Edline page (at the bottom of the page).

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Computer Lab Assignment Directions for 2/19/14:
Part I: Typing Your Writing - Today you will be typing up your finished writing, whether it is a narrative or a personal essay. Make sure you have your settings setClick on this link to read an article: The Boys Who Fought the following:
- Create a heading (insert; heading) and write it inNazis
1. Click to read the upper right hand corner: Name, date, and mod
- Title your paper with the titledigital version of your choice in the center ofarticle (the third link down).
2. Then click on the documentfirst link "World War II and in bold
- size 12 font in Times New Roman, Arial OR Calibri
- paragraph spacing at “double”the Holocaust Video with 0 for “before” and “after”
- margins at “normal”
Once you have titled your essay, SAVE itMaps" to your "virtual backpack".
Directions to save:
1. Go to File; Save As
2. Click on "browse".
3. Atsee an illustrated map of the bottom you should see a folder withHolocaust. Make sure your student number on it where it says "network". Click on that. You mayheadphones are plugged in or may not have folders in here for each mod. If you do, save it in your mod's folder. If you don't, you may create a folder or just save it in the main folder. Make sure itvolume is clear whatturned all the title is and that I CAN TELL which assignment this is.
Type your assignment, paying special attention to conventions (punctuation, spelling, grammar). Spell Check and Grammar Checkway down.
3. Click on the computers will catch many errors, but NOT all of them. It is YOUR job to check over all of this link to make sure you don’t get points taken off for errors. Make sure to indent at the start of each new paragraph.
When you are finished typing and have checked all your settings, spelling, punctuation, etc. you may print your writing. You will only print ONE, so make sure it represents your best work.
Part II: Assignment - Go to http://thisibelieve.org/essay/22870/ and read Tony Hawk’s “This I Believe” essay. “This I Believe” is a segmenttake an interactive quiz on NPR (radio) in which people share a personal essay in less than 500 words about something they believe in. Tony Hawk shares about his belief in the importance of doing what you love.
When you are finished reading, copy and paste the questions below into your own Word document. Type your answer below each question.article. Interactive Quiz You will copyclick and paste the questions ANDtype your answers into an email to me on Edline.
FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS FOR SENDING YOUR EMAIL: To send an email on Edline, you must log in, go to my page, and scroll toanswers. Then click "Email" at the bottom where it says “Email Teacher J. Tracy”. In the SUBJECT line, put your first initial and last name, like this: J. Tracy. In the bodytop of the email, you should paste the questionspage with your answers typed below.
1. What did you know about Tony Hawk before reading his essay?
2. What was the most interesting thing you read in Tony Hawk’s essay?
3. Summarize Tony Hawk’s messagequiz. Type in this email address: tracy.jacqueline@brevardschools.org to email me your own words in 1-2 sentences.answers.

- paragraph spacing at “double” with 0 for “before” and “after”
- margins at “normal”
Once you have titled your essay, SAVE it to your "virtual backpack".
Directions to save:
1. Go to File; Save As
2. Click on "browse".
3. At the bottom you should see a folder with your student number on it where it says "network". Click on that. You may or may not have folders in here for each mod. If you do, save it in your mod's folder. If you don't, you may create a folder or just save it in the main folder. Make sure it is clear what the title is and that I CAN TELL which assignment this is.
Type your assignment, paying special attention to conventions (punctuation, spelling, grammar). Spell Check and Grammar Check on the computers will catch many errors, but NOT all of them. It is YOUR job to check over all of this to make sure you don’t get points taken off for errors. Make sure to indent at the start of each new paragraph.
When you are finished typing and have checked all your settings, spelling, punctuation, etc. you may print your writing. You will only print ONE, so make sure it represents your best work.

When you are finished typing and have checked all your settings, spelling, punctuation, etc. you may print your writing. You will only print ONE, so make sure it represents your best work.
Part II: Assignment - Go to http://thisibelieve.org/essay/22870/ and read Tony Hawk’s “This I Believe” essay. “This I Believe” is a segment on NPR (radio) in which people share a personal essay in less than 500 words about something they believe in. Tony Hawk shares about his belief in the importance of doing what you love.
on Edline.
FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS FOR SENDING YOUR EMAIL: To send an email on Edline, you must log in, go to my page, and scroll to the bottom where it says “Email Teacher J. Tracy”. In the SUBJECT line, put your first initial and last name, like this: J. Tracy. In the body of the email, you should paste the questions with your answers typed below.
1. What did you know about Tony Hawk before reading his essay?

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TheComputer Lab Assignment Directions for 2/19/14:
Part I: Typing Your Writing Process
Directions: Start a new word document. Save it as “first initial.last name Writing Process” (Teach example: J.Tracy Writing Process)
Copy and paste ONLY THE BOLD TEXT onto your document. Then- Today you will come back to the directions that go with each part of the assignment on THIS PAGE. You will be adding to the document and then uploadingtyping up your finished writing, whether it on the interactive assignment in Edline just like last time. REMEMBER, YOUR ASSIGNMENT DOES NOT SAVE IF YOU DO NOT HIT “SUBMIT INTERACTIVE ASSIGNMENT” IN THE UPPER LEFT-HAND CORNER, AND YOU MUST REMEMBER WHERE YOU HAVE SAVED IT ON YOUR COMPUTER TO BE ABLE TO UPLOAD IT.
Onceis a narrative or a personal essay. Make sure you have pasted the bold text onto your document, I suggest making this window smaller and making the Word window smallersettings set to each fill up half the screen, just like last time. That way you can see directionsfollowing:
- Create a heading (insert; heading) and your work at the same time.
Part I: Review of the Writing Process
For each step of the writing process, write what you remember about what takes placeit in that step. You don’t have to use the exact words from the notes; you can useupper right hand corner: Name, date, and mod
- Title your own words.
Step 1: Prewriting:
Step 2: Drafting:
Step 3: Revising:
Step 4: Editing:
Step 5: Publishing:
Part II: Revising and Editing a Paragraph – Readpaper with the paragraph provided below. You will be revising it using strategies we talked about in class yesterday. Don’t worry, you don’t have to do it all ontitle of your own. I’ll give you hints about what needs to be revised.
Track Changes – This is how I will see the revisions you makechoice in the paragraph. At the topcenter of your screen, click on the “Review” tab. Then click on “Track Changes”document and click the first option which says “Track Changes”. THEN, next to "track changes" click on the window that says "simple markup" and change it to say 'ALL MARKUP'. Any time you change something on the paragraph, it will show up in red. I will be able to see what you have added, removed, moved, etc.
Sunsetbold
- size 12 font in Times New Roman, Arial OR Calibri
- paragraph spacing at the Top of the World
The noise“double” with 0 for “before” and troubles of the city were eight hours behind me and well over 50 miles away. I had been waiting for this vacation for over two years. It felt good“after”
- margins at “normal”
Type your assignment, paying special attention to get away. We start climbing Bald Mountain just before noon,conventions (punctuation, spelling, grammar). Spell Check and the sun was going down as we reached the top. It were a fantastic sight. I sat downGrammar Check on a stump and watched the sun go down. I felt like I was sitting on top of the world. I could sea for miles in all directions. The sky turned different colors. There werecomputers will catch many errors, but NOT all sorts of weird shadows, I could seethem. It is YOUR job to check over all the leaves moving a little on the tops of the trees below me. As it got darker, a breeze started, and there was a nice smell in the air. I was tired, but I felt at peace. Its a beautiful world.
REVISING:
1. The writer of this paragraph wants the mood to be peaceful and show the contrast in where he is right now and where he lives and works every day. Re-read the beginning of the paragraph and decide which two sentences (hint: one is really short) can be REMOVED. Find them and remove them.
2. The writer gives a few very vague descriptions about what he sees. Gomake sure you don’t get points taken off for errors. Make sure to each of the following sentences and add to each sentence, describing EXACTLY what he could be seeing.
The sky turned different colors… (be more specific)
… there was a nice smell in the air (be more specific)
3. The writer wants the mood of the paragraph to be peaceful, but he only mentions thatindent at the end. ADD a sentence AFTER the first sentence that mentions the peace he is expecting to experience now that he is away from the city life.
4. Go back and ADD a TOPIC sentence (first sentence) for the paragraph before the first sentence. It should mention the place and the experience that the writer is about to have, and it should contribute to the peaceful moodstart of theeach new paragraph.
5. SUSBTITUTE a better synonym for the following words (Delete them
When you are finished typing and just addhave checked all your settings, spelling, punctuation, etc. you may print your word there.writing. You will see that the word stays there but is crossed out.)
“top” (line 3)
“started” (line 5)
“tired” (line 5)
EDITING:
Now that you have revised the paragraph, it’s time to edit. Makeonly print ONE, so make sure it represents your “track changes” option is still on.best work.
Part II: Assignment - Go back to the paragraphhttp://thisibelieve.org/essay/22870/ and fix the following grammatical mistakes.read Tony Hawk’s “This I Believe” essay. “This I will give you hints about what the mistakes are, but you must find them yourself.
1. one verb thatBelieve” is a segment on NPR (radio) in the present tense but should bewhich people share a personal essay in the past tense
2. one verb that isless than 500 words about something they believe in. Tony Hawk shares about his belief in the wrong form
3. one verb that is spelled wrong (homophone)
4. one run-on sentence
5. usage error inimportance of doing what you love.
When you are finished reading, copy and paste the last sentence
Part III: More editing practice. This time you’re onquestions below into your own. Make sureown Word document. Type your “track changes” feature is still on. Go through the paragraph and edit it. (Think about the C.U.P.S. acronym!) Hint:answer below each question. You will hopefully find at least seven editing changes.
Marta is a sophomore college. She is working on a degree in Special Education. She works as a camp councilor every summer. The camp is a special camp for children with physicalcopy and mental disadvantages. Marta helpspaste the kids get exercisequestions AND your answers into an email to me on Edline.
FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS FOR SENDING YOUR EMAIL: To send an email on Edline, you must log in, go to my page, and make better their social skills. She takesscroll to the kid’s swimming all afternoons inbottom where it says “Email Teacher J. Tracy”. In the summer. They goes bowl once a week. The children reallySUBJECT line, put your first initial and last name, like this: J. Tracy. In the camping out in tense. Marta always have wanted work with kids with disabilities. She is looking forward to a career in Special Education.
Oncebody of the email, you are finishedshould paste the questions with all three parts, save your document again. Go to Edline and click onanswers typed below.
1. What did you know about Tony Hawk before reading his essay?
2. What was the “Writing Process” assignment. Upload your assignment there and make suremost interesting thing you hit “SUBMIT”.
Once you're done, make sureread in Tony Hawk’s essay?
3. Summarize Tony Hawk’s message in your vocab homework is done for this week and for ANY OTHER WEEKS THAT YOU DIDN'T COMPLETE.***
You may email me PREVIOUS weeks' vocab homeworkown words in an email through Edline (NOT THIS WEEK'S!).1-2 sentences.

The Writing Process
Directions: Start a new word document. Save it as “first initial.last name Writing Process” (Teach example: J.Tracy Writing Process)
your document. Then you will come back to the directions that go with each part of the assignment on THIS PAGE. You will
Once you have pasted the bold text onto your document, I suggest making this window smaller and making the Word window smaller to each fill up half the screen, just like last time. That way you can see directions and your work at the same time.
Part I: Review of the Writing Process

Step 5: Publishing:
Part II: Revising and Editing a Paragraph – Read the paragraph provided below. You will be revising it using strategies we talked about in class yesterday. Don’t worry, you don’t have to do it all on your own. I’ll give you hints about what needs to be revised.
“Track Changes”. THEN, next to "track changes" click on the window that says "simple markup" and change it to say 'ALL MARKUP'. Any time
Sunset at the Top of the World
The noise and troubles of the city were eight hours behind me and well over 50 miles away. I had been waiting for this vacation for over two years. It felt good to get away. We start climbing Bald Mountain just before noon, and the sun was going down as we reached the top. It were a fantastic sight. I sat down on a stump and watched the sun go down. I felt like I was sitting on top of the world. I could sea for miles in all directions. The sky turned different colors. There were all sorts of weird shadows, I could see all the leaves moving a little on the tops of the trees below me. As it got darker, a breeze started, and there was a nice smell in the air. I was tired, but I felt at peace. Its a beautiful world.

Marta is a sophomore college. She is working on a degree in Special Education. She works as a camp councilor every summer. The camp is a special camp for children with physical and mental disadvantages. Marta helps the kids get exercise and make better their social skills. She takes the kid’s swimming all afternoons in the summer. They goes bowl once a week. The children really like the camping out in tense. Marta always have wanted work with kids with disabilities. She is looking forward to a career in Special Education.
Once you are finished with all three parts, save your document again. Go to Edline and click on the “Writing Process” assignment. Upload your assignment there and make sure you hit “SUBMIT”.
Once you're done, make sure your vocab homework is done for this week and for ANY OTHER WEEKS THAT YOU DIDN'T COMPLETE.***
You may email me PREVIOUS weeks' vocab homework in an email through Edline (NOT THIS WEEK'S!).

Copy and paste ONLY THE BOLD TEXT onto your document. You will be adding to the document and then uploading it on the interactive assignment in Edline just like last time. REMEMBER, YOUR ASSIGNMENT DOES NOT SAVE IF YOU DO NOT HIT “SUBMIT INTERACTIVE ASSIGNMENT” IN THE UPPER LEFT-HAND CORNER, AND YOU MUST REMEMBER WHERE YOU HAVE SAVED IT ON YOUR COMPUTER TO BE ABLE TO UPLOAD IT.
Once you have pasted the bold text onto your document, I suggest making this window smaller and making the Word window smaller to each fill up half the screen, just like last time. That way you can see directions and your work at the same time.
I: Review of the Writing Process
For each step of the writing process, write what you remember about what takes place in that step. You don’t have to use the exact words from the notes; you can use your own words.
Step 1: Prewriting:
5. SUSBTITUTE a better synonym for the following words (Delete them and just add your word there. You will see that the word stays there but is crossed out.)
“top” (line 3)
“started” (line 6)5)
“tired” (line 6)5)
EDITING:
Now that you have revised the paragraph, it’s time to edit. Make sure your “track changes” option is still on. Go back to the paragraph and fix the following grammatical mistakes. I will give you hints about what the mistakes are, but you must find them yourself.