Pirates of Silicon Valley

You watched a movie entitled "Pirates of Silicon Valley." The movie is about Bill Gates, Microsoft Corporation, and Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc., and the growth of their companies. Other key players shown in the movie are Paul Allen and Steve Ballmer, Gates' partners, and Steve Wozniak, Jobs' partner. During the movie, you wrote down adjectives that described Gates and Jobs. Your task today is to write a persuasive essay answering the following questions: 

"Are Bill Gates and Steve Jobs more similar or different?" Pick a position. 

Your persuasive essay requires three supporting facts. Be sure to expand upon the facts. Think about what your English teacher requires when a persuasive essay is assigned. Yes, I'm looking for five paragraphs. 

Each paragraph is worth 5 points: 25 points total for this assignment. 

Also, print the table that includes the adjectives that you generated during the movie. The completed table is worth 10 points.

Winter Poem Formatting

Use your formatting skills! Find lyrics or a poem related to winter or snow. Be sure your document meets the following tasks:

• Choose an orientation.
• Center the poem/lyrics vertically on the page. Page Layout > Page Setup > click on the Layout tab > Vertical Alignment > Center
• Include a page border.
• Must use word art for a title.  Modify the word art in some way.
• Must include at least one graphic

NOTE: When you copy and paste the lyrics or poem, be sure to select KEEP TEXT ONLY.

Cite the source of the lyrics or poem beneath it.

WHEN PRINTING: File > Print > Options > Display > check Print Background Colors and Images.

Total points: 25 pts.

Bonus Personal Business Letter

Complete the Personal Business Letter on pg. 84 of book. Make sure it is perfectly formatted for full credit!
Save as: letter, pg. 84

Scrambled Personal Business Letter

See handout for details.

Directions:

Type this as a perfectly formatted personal business letter. You must rearrange the parts of the letter in the correct order. Make sure DS and QS are in the appropriate parts of the letter. Make sure the body paragraphs are arranged to make sense.

Save as: scrambled personal business letter. Print and hand in.

Wish List

Create a Wish List.  What products do you like?  If not a product, what wish?
You will need a minimum of eight items for your list.

Your task:

1. Make your orientation Landscape. Insert a page border of your choice.  Format the border.
2. Create a title for your wish list using Word Art (e.g.: Mrs. Jackson's Wish List)  Change your text-wrapping to In Front of Text.
3. You will now create two rows of images that make up your list.

Make sure you:

Insert image (keep all images around the same size).

Add border around image.

Change text wrapping to In Front of Text

Insert Text Box and label your wish. Change font color and box border color and thickness. Make this different for each item.

You should have four on the top half of the page and four on the bottom half of the page. Make sure you are not too close to the edge of the page or you will lose points!

When you have your four images in a row, select all of them, go to the Align button, and choose Align Top.

Then choose Distribute Horizontally (to give equal space in between each image)

Adjust your text boxes so they are centered above each image.

Repeat for the second row of items.

Extra Credit**  Add two more items for a total of ten (five in each row)

Save as Wish List and print to 4025.

25 points

Thanksgiving Email or Memo Review

Choose ONE of the following tasks:

Demonstrate your formatting skills. Create a memorandum using Word and the proper format. Refer to your memo page 56 file and comments/notes if you have any questions. 

The memo goes to your teacher, from you. Use the current date and make up an appropriate subject. 

Write a memo describing what you DO on Thanksgiving. How do you celebrate the holiday? Write two paragraphs. 

The memo is worth 25 points. 

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Demonstrate your formatting skills. Create an email using your email editor. Refer to page 58 email file/notes saved in your folder if you have any questions regarding the proper format. 

The email goes to your teacher (Mrs. Jackson); from you. Enter an appropriate subject. 
Write an email describing what you enjoy eating on Thanksgiving. Write two paragraphs.

The email is worth 25 points. You are responsible for printing the email from your 'SENT' folder.

Personal Business Letters

A letter written by an individual to deal with business of a personal nature is called a personal-business letter. The letters we create in class will be Block format with open punctuation. Letters arranged in block format have all parts of the letter beginning at the left. The paragraphs are not indented.

Your task:

Personal Business Letter #1: Open to page 78. Key the personal business letter on page 78 using the format described.  Create a Letters folder and save this in it. This will be graded for 25 pts.
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Add comments to the pg. 78 Personal Business Letter.  We will do this together in class.  Save.  Print letter and comments.  This is worth 10 pts.
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Personal Business Letter #2: Turn to page 81. Key the personal business letter in block format (same as page 83)

Personal Business Letter #3: You have a choice: Key the personal business letter on page 82 (bottom of the page) or page 83 (top of the page).

Each letter is worth 25 points. Total points: 50

Communication Skills

Complete Communication Skills 3 on pg. 49-50.

Type both the Learn and Apply lines, and make the appropriate changes to the Apply lines--do not type them as is!

On page 50, all sentences must be changed.

Save as: Communication Skills 3

30 points.