Language Arts
6th Grade |
7th Grade |
8th Grade |
| Project Publish: Students will use a current literature selection to add headers, footers, and page numbers. | Book Review: Students use word processing formatting tools to create a document. | Daily Log: Students create a journal for a famous individual (possible connection to Social Studies). |
| I've Got Proportionality: Students will create a promotional travel poster that deals with proportion and body text effectively. |
Favorite Recipe: Students create and edit recipes in order to compile a class recipe file. | Give an Award: Students will create an award certificate for a persona who has had a positive impact on society. |
| What's in a Name?: Students will work in groups to compose a progressive story by using the find/replace command. | Editing Checklist: Students create a checklist for editing for future use. | Speech: Students will create a speech and present to the class. |
| Similes: Students will create similes comparing animate and inanimate items. | Instead of Said: Students learn to replace overused words with the Find/Replace feature. | Poetry: Students will create a poetry anthology with a unifying theme. |
| Idioms: Students will create a word proecessing document to explain a chosen idiom. | I'm Talking: Students use the thesaurus to create a poem with creative adjectives. | Illustrated Book Review: Students will create an illustrated book review for a fictitious newspaper. |
| Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms: Students will use tabs to create a chart. | Where, Oh Where, is My...: Students use desktop publishing skills to create a lost pet notice. | Illustrated Autobiography: Students will use desktop publishing skills. |
| Culminating Projects: This project ties together all the above lessons and is intended to be used at the end of the school year/semester. Students should be able to incorporate many word processing skills to complete one of a list of projects. |
Issue Poster: Students create a poster to advertise an environmental or human health issue. | . |
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