Lesson One

Creative Writing

Open Microsoft Word. Write a creative paragraph of at least 150 words about a recent news article. Give it a title. Center and underline the title. Within the paragraph, put ten different fonts. Highlight one or more words in your paragraph and change the size of the words. Change at least 10 words in the paragraph. Put a border around your paragraph. As well, run spell check and word count on your document. At the bottom of your document, type in how many words are in your document.

Lesson Two
A Story to Remember

You must create a short story with at least three separate pages. Insert a graphic into each of the pages. Once the graphic is inserted, resize and centre the picture. Under each graphic, insert a text box into the document. Type at least 50 words tying your picture into your complete story. Make the text box bigger if you need to. Change or add a border to your text box. Each page must have a page number, date and time. The page number must be in the bottom right of the footer. The date must be in the header on the right side of the page. The time must be in the header on the left side of the page Do a spell check and word count. Type the word count at the bottom of the page. Please type your name and word count at the bottom of the page.

Lesson 3
From Rags to Riches Use the internet, newspaper, or magazine to research at least 3 celebrities from the entertainment world. NOTE: On your Microsoft Word document, check to see that the margin measurements are in centimeters. If not, go to the following link to learn how to change them to centimetres. Changing to centimetres The following is to completed for each of the three celebrities:

Write a short biography about your celebrity List three movies they have been in. Students must demonstrate that they have used the "Tab" feature or the "Bullet" feature. o The first celebrity's movies must be three (3) centimetres from the margin using only the tab function. o The second celebrity's movies must be 6 centimetres from the left margin with the same "Bullet" beginning each line. o The third celebrity's movies must be 9 centimetres from the left margin with a different bullet beginning each line. Below is an example of what each celebrities biography should look like. The following are a few sites that have celebrity biographies and their entertainment contribution.

International Movie DataBase Biography

Example Lesson Four

Let's Decorate

Open Microsoft Word 1. You need a border around the entire page. Open Format menu and select Borders and Shading Click the "Page Border Tab" Click the drop arrow beside "Art" which located near the bottom of the page. Choose one of the page borders and click OK. 2. Give your page a title from Word Art. Open Insert menu and select Pictures.

 Beside pictures choose a "Word Art". Choose one design and give your page a title. 3. Insert a graphic Copy one from the internet or Open the Insert menu Choose picture From File or Clip Art 4. Write 150 words about the graphic. The font must have at least 10 different colours. 5. Insert a Horizontal line at the bottom of the page. Open the Format Menu / Borders and Shading / Horizontal Line (Found at the bottom of the page). 6. Show that you did a word count and Do a spell check.