Here are some tips for your perusal to assist both students and parents as we go into the final week of the present grading period.
- Friday, March 6th, is the very, very the last day for making up missing assignments for this nine week grading period. Students can even stay after school on Friday to makeup anything missing till 3 p.m. if they have transportation home. Or have your child work on-line tonight. URL for both 7th and 8th grade assignments is: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/Curriculum_Preview99.html. Parent signature is required along with a date for all assignments completed outside of class.
- 7th Grade Classes: Final copy of the Korean Pen Pal Letter is due this Friday, March 6th. final copy needs to be two pages and must be typed double spaced typed in CSAP quality. Need more information? It is a 400-point two-part pen pal letter assignment to a Korean student in Seoul, Korea which is due Friday, March 6, 2009. See separate hand-out dealing with Pen pal instructions. Penpal instructions. Time to fix whatever needs fixing! See Parent-Portal for details of what's missing or needs makeup. next week, we will collect photos and other memorabilia to enclosed in the box that will be mailed. Note: Dr. Data will pay for the postal mailing.
- Solutions for assignments not being credited/graded?
- Save ones assignments many times during a class period so one can always show it to Dr. Data again.
- Always save before printing just in the case the computer should crash
- Save all returned completed assignments in the student notebook so the student has proof that it was done.
- If assignments are completed at home, simple reprint them and show to Dr. Data the next day in class along with a parent signature and date completed verifying that your child did the work themselves.
- 8th Grade Classes: We are into Week 8 working on spreadsheets for managing a business.
This week we are going to handle the business of running a business: "A Business Financial Management Plan." The software that will be used will be a word processor and a spreadsheet. You are required to do the following assignments that emulate how a business does business. Because of the CSAP testing, Week 8 will be extended through next week.
- Due Monday with the Learning Objective: need produce/create an ad for a local newspaper. Must include logo, business name, who, what when and why statements and look professional with its formatting. Here's a sample to view at: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/business/Print_Ad.pdf. This is to be done in a word processor or Microsoft Publisher.
- Due Tuesday with the Learning Objective: need to compile and print a customer list. Must include customer's name, address, phone number and personal notes about each customer. Here's a sample to view at: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/business/Customer.pdf. This is to be done in a word processor.
- Due Wednesday with the Learning Objective: when customer respond to the advertising, you need to agreed about the work to be done by creating/printing a contract. Here's a sample view at: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/business/Contract.pdf. It is to be done in a word processor. Most important: must keep the formatting identical and use Word Art graphical title.
- Due Thursday with the Learning Objective: before doing the work under contract, you need to create/print a letter of intent notifying the customer when and how the work will be done. Here's a sample view at: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/business/Letter.pdf. It is to be done in a word processor.
- For Friday there are three choices: pick one of the spreadsheet options provided. Two of which are worth 300 points and one is worth 200 points. Learning Objective: after the work is completed, you need create/print a bill to submit to the customer. Here's a sample view at: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/business/Invoice.pdf. This is to be done in a spreadsheet such as Microsoft Excel. Must add the totals of expenses and display a formula. No formula, no grade. To create a formula, go to the cell that needs to add up all the columns. Type =SUM(. Then click on the first cell to be added and drag to the last one and close with right parenthesis ). Hit return key and you have answer displayed. After completing the spreadsheet, here's how to display a formula so you get credit for the spreadsheet. Normally, you would print it out, but today without printing capabilities, just show the formula to Dr. Data for a grade.
Till next time,
Dr. Data
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