Friday February 8th

Today we corrected and collected last night's homework.

Next we looked at compound subjects.

Class/Homework:
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Part A and B, follow the directions.

Part C--read the directions and write an ad as they ask. You will receive 5 extra credit points if you draw an illustration to go with your ad or a logo for the Hot Air Balloon company. In order to receive the extra credit, your work must have color, be imaginative, and be neat!

VOTE for Children's Hospital

http://www.colgate.com/app/Colgate/US/Corp/CommunityPrograms/show-the-love.cvsp

Letters of Appreciation

In the spirit of starting off the New Year on the right foot, your first assignment will be to write a letter or appreciation to someone. This someone must be a person whom you do not interact with on a daily basis (NOT Mom or Dad). This must be a person who has impacted your life in a positive way. Make sure your letter includes the proper format and tone (see the links below for help) and includes specific details on how that person has positively influenced your life.

FRIENDLY LETTER LINK: http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000144.htm
BUSINESS LETTER LINK: http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000150.htm (make sure to use the BLOCK style format of the Business Letter)

Make sure you are thoughtful in your letter.

LINK TO APPRECIATION VIDEO: http://www.appreciationmovie.com/

ACCESS Group Work

1. Fill out an index card with your group member's names, title of the database you are going to work on, the field names (must be 7-10 and one must be something other than text). After filling this out, see your teacher for permission to proceed with your database.
2. After receiving permission, create your database. While you create your database you are responsible for creating a Word document that gives the step-by-step directions of how you made your database. Somewhere in the steps, you must use the filter option and the sort option. Finally you must generate a report of some kind. While you are going through your directions, tell me WHY you are doing it.
3. You must have 10 records.
4. Your database can be anything that you and your partner agree on. You can use the internet to research information to fill the fields of information.
5. This is due no later than Monday.

SURVEY

Now it is time to use the spreadsheet for your own purposes.

You need to design a survey to ask/handout to at least 20 different people. Make sure if you are asking them something, you give them options to choose from as answers. If you don't, more than likely you will have too much of a variety in answer to be able to generate a nice spreadsheet and chart.

Here is an example of successful survey:

SPORTS:

1. What is your favorite sport to watch?

___ hockey ___football ____soccer ____ tennis ____baseball ___golf

2. What is your favorite sport to play?

___ hockey ___football ____soccer ____ tennis ____baseball ___golf

3. Do you prefer college or professional sports when you watch?

____college ___professional

4. Which do you prefer: contact sports or non-contact sports?

___ contact ____non-contact

5. If you could play one sport for a living, which would you choose? (you do not have to be good at it now)

___ hockey ___football ____soccer ____ tennis ____baseball ___golf

Your survey should include at least 5 questions, no more than 7. Edit your work. Make 20 copies of your survey. Bring in the copies to class on Thursday.

PTA 1 & 2

In order to finish PTA 1 and 2, please do Order of Operations first.

ORDER OF OPERATIONS:
Please complete this packet thru 4E. You do NOT need to do 5 & 6. If you would like to you may do so for extra credit. At the end please print out a sheet with the formulas ONLY.

PTA 1
When you complete this activity, please print out the answers AND the formulas. Also, you mus do questions at the end of the activity (#1 & 2). You may write the answers on the sheet.

PTA 2
In order to complete this activity, open your PTA 1 spreadsheet. You will be making some changes to it, so as soon as you reopen PTA, save it as PTA 2 (this means you have your old version, PTA 1...and are now ready to continue with the new PTA 2). Begin the activity with #2. Before you get to # 4 make sure the spreadsheet has the same info that is shown on the directions sheet. If it does not, change it. In part 6, they want you to think of REASONABLE #'s to put into each of the columns (C, D, E, F) so that you have some options. Each option should be near/around $1,000. Try to get exactly $1000 for one column! Read the possibly thinking/logical questions to ask as they have in #6 to get you thinking. Finally, when you are finished, please print the answers AND the FORMULAS. Also, please write a well-written, thoughtful answer to the Activity 13 question and turn it in.

EXCEL Assignments

We began our EXCEL unit on Friday.

• Planning a Birthday Party
• Fill Right
• Fill Down
• SUM
• Order of Operations
• PTA Meeting 1
• PTA Meeting 2