May+9+-+May+13

===**Student Learning Focus-- I will: ** ===

> styles and layouts. || > **TA.6-8.10D** Use a variety of > font styles, and sizes, as well demonstrate appropriate use of page design to communicate ideas effectively. > **TA.6-8.8D** Use technology in self-directed activities by sharing products for > defined audiences. > **TA.6-8.10A-E** Create useful, easy to read graphs and charts after gathering meaningful data.
 * **TA.6-8.10C** Create a variety of spreadsheet layouts > containing descriptive graphics and labels. Create a variety of spreadsheet

=May 09 to May 13, 2011 = =You are to be finishing up the PowerPoint, Vocabulary and any other unfinished work from last week. =
 * Get started by making sure you have Vocab 6a and Questions finished and open for review. Click here for the vocabulary list and questions.
 * Next make sure you have a rainfall graph done. The rainfall graph should be a bar or column graph. [|U.S average rainfall]
 * Next, use the words and definitions from vocabulary 6a to create a Powerpoint slideshow. **
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #008080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; padding-right: 10px;">include images or clipart.
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #008080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; padding-right: 10px;">Use background colors or effects
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #008080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; padding-right: 10px;">Use fonts
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #008080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; padding-right: 10px;">Define and illustrate one word per slide.
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #008080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; padding-right: 10px;">Visit [|http://typingtest.com] and take 5 tests, make sure to remember your 5 times. Now calculate your AVERAGE words per minute. **
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">After that, go to typing pal and work on improving typing speed.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">If you have nothing left to do. You may select an older vocabulary list of your choice, and create a slide show for it using Powerpoint, the same way you did the slideshow for 6A.