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I hope that you had an enjoyable and restful Spring Break. This week and next week, we will continue with our Keyboarding lessons and students in each grade level will exploring the following units:

8th grade students will be completing Word Processing projects to include:

Creating Business Letters
Creating a Flyer with a Photo
Creating a Research Paper with Citations
Creating a Newsletter

7th grade students will be completing a Spreadsheet unit to include:

Creating Spreadsheets
Applying Formulas to Spreadsheets
Evaluating Data on a Spreadsheet

6th grade students will be completing a Presentation unit to include:

Creating a Presentation
Enhancing a Presentation
Delivering a Presentation

Next week is CRCT testing, so please remember to get a good night's rest and to do your best.

to your Business and Computer Science course.

I would like to take this time to welcome all students currently enrolled in this nine weeks course. This will be a fun and exciting time for you to learn what business education has to offer you. I ask that you come to class prepared and with an open-mind ready to receive all that this course has to offer you. Students are asked to bring the following items to class daily:

pen/pencil
you may also bring in your own headphones or earpieces to use for this class

As this course is only for one 9 week period, we will be moving full speed ahead.

Where we are:

All grade levels will be exploring keyboarding techniques. Students will be introduced or reintroduced to the keyboard and will be guided on how to compose the alpha and numeric keys on the keyboard by touch. Students are encourage to practice the daily skills taught at home to build upon speed and accuracy.

8th grade students currently enrolled in this course have completed two years of keyboarding principals and will be reintroduced to the keys learned within the last two years and will continue to build upon those skills. We are striving for accuracy in our current touch typing lessons. The goal is to touch type 30+ wpm.

7th grade students will be introduced to the numerical keys and symbols. Students enrolled in this course have had an introduction to the alphabetic keys and will be reintroduced to those keys while adding the numerical and symbol keys. The goal is to learn to touch type 25+ wpm.

6th grade students will be introduced to the alphabetic keys (two at a time). It is strongly recommended that they practice 15 to 20 minutes each night to reinforce the skills learned in class for that day. We are striving for accuracy, speed will come in time. The goal is to learn touch type 20 wpm with less than 3 errors.

As this class is a nine-week course, we will be moving full speed ahead. So lets get prepared and have an enjoyable learning experience.

Fun Practice Sites:

For those students that requested practice sites, please refer to the following:

http://gamequarium.com/keyboarding.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing.htm

Note to Parents:

Parents if you need to contact me, you may do so at: petrina.baxter@cobbk12.org

Syllabus:

Download Syllabus_6th_grade[3]

Download Syllabus_7th_grade[3]

Download Syllabus_8th_grade[3]