Wednesday, October 31, 2007

ANALOGY/WORDQUIZ/WPM
ARMHOLES : SHIRT :: pages : _____
1. recycled
2. magazine
3. written

reticent
Who is likely to be described as reticent?
1. a penny pincher
2. a bundle of nerves
3. a man of few words

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

ANALOGY
GALAXY : HUGE :: _____ : brass
1. trumpet
2. dull
3. steel

WORD QUIZ
overture
You would most likely find an overture
1. at a French bakery.
2. at the top of a tall building.
3. at the beginning of an opera.

Monday, October 29, 2007

WARM UP
(What is an analogy?)
LOUISIANA : STATE :: barn : _____
1. horse
2. building
3. farm
WORD QUIZ
fusty
If you visited friends who lived in a fusty house, you might decide to
1. wear your best clothes.
2. open a window.
3. share your food.

Friday, October 26, 2007

ANALOGY/WORD QUIZ
RULER : MEASURING :: crayon : _____
1. wax
2. supplies
3. coloring
WORD QUIZ
porcine
Which Looney Tunes animal is truly porcine?
1. Porky Pig
2. Bugs Bunny
3. Tweety Bird

Thursday, October 25, 2007

STUDENT EXPECTATION:
This week PGS 42-76,
1) Warm up -10 minutes
2) TEXT BOOK PGS 73& 74- print & post to blog.
3) Learn2type/MAVIS -10minutes-WPM
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THURSDAY-PG. 73, ITINERARY & PG.74, BID MEMO--TEST
FRIDAY-PG.76-TRUCK COMPLAIN, & PG.76 CANDY RECALL--TEST

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

What word completes the analogy?
WATCH : IGNORE :: gather : _____
1. combine
2. scatter
3. rake

Word Quiz
ennui
Someone who is suffering from ennui feels
1. very itchy.
2. very achy.
3. very bored.

Monday, October 22, 2007

WARM -UP-ANALOGY/WORD/WPM
BRONTOSAUR : PLANT-EATING :: spinach : _____
1. dining
2. leafy
3. Popeye
Word Quiz
What does it mean?
raconteur
My Aunt Vesta is a great raconteur—
1. no one can beat her at tennis.
2. I could listen to her stories for hours.
3. she plays tricks on anyone and everyone.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

(What is an analogy?)
HAMSTER : RODENT :: stealing : _____
1. crime
2. thief
3. giving
WORD QUIZ
verdant
Which song sounds like it is about something verdant?
1. The Green, Green Grass of Home
2. Red Sky in the Morning
3. Yellow Rose of Texas

. Warm-Up=10 minutes
2. 6A-8B-Resume print & screenshot to blog-30 minutes
3. MAVIS/LEARN2TYPE-10 MINUTES
(What is an analogy?)
LEMON : YELLOW :: sweatpants : _____
1. exercise
2. legs
3. comfy
WORD QUIZ
augur
An ancient Roman might have gone to an augur to
1. have his portrait painted.
2. learn what his future held.
3. buy and sell goods.

Monday, October 15, 2007

ANALOGIES/WORDQUIZ/WPM
MINK : SOFT :: mold : _____
1. fuzzy
2. shape
3. illness
WORD QUIZ
raconteur
My Aunt Vesta is a great raconteur—
1. no one can beat her at tennis.
2. I could listen to her stories for hours.
3. she plays tricks on anyone and everyone

Friday, October 12, 2007

WARM UP
What word completes the analogy?
(What is an analogy?)
STITCHING : QUILT :: beak : _____
1. bill
2. mouth
3. songbird
What does it mean?
meritocracy
Word Quiz
My swim camp uses a system of meritocracy to decide who will be lifeguard.
1. The oldest person is lifeguard.
2. The strongest swimmer is lifeguard.
3. We draw straws to select the lifeguard.

Alignment
Alignment is a paragraph's relationship to the page's right and left margins.

Border
A border is a line you place around a paragraph or along any one or more of its sides.

Bullet
Each item in a bulleted list is introduced by a small graphic called a bullet. By default, Word uses a small dot as the bullet.

Character Style
Character styles are styles applied to characters only. Character styles can be applied to individual characters, such as a word or a letter.

Font
A font is a complete set of alphabetical characters (including the letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and symbols) based on the same, unique design. Fonts have names such as Times, Helvetica, and Tahoma. Some people use the term typeface when referring to a font.

Font Style
The most commonly used font styles are bold italic, and underline.

Footer
A footer is a line of text that appears at the bottom of each page.

Formatting
Formatting means changing the way a document looks without changing the information within the document.

Header
A header is a line of text that appears at the top of each page in a document.

Indent
The amount of space between a paragraph and the right or left margin is called an indent.

Line spacing
Line spacing is the amount of vertical space between the lines within a paragraph.

Page break
A page break is a marker that indicates the end of the current page and the start of a new one.

Paragraph
A paragraph is any text that is followed by a paragraph mark.

Paragraph spacing
When you reset the amount of spacing before and after a paragraph you are changing the paragraph spacing.

Paragraph style
Paragraph styles can be applied to one or more entire paragraphs.

Point
Paragraph spacing is measured in points. One point equals 1/72 inch.

Shading
Shading appears as a gray or colored background behind the paragraph.

Style
A style is a named set of formatting characteristics. Using styles lets you format individual characters or entire paragraphs with just a few mouse clicks. Styles help you give a consistent look to different parts of a document.

Tab
A tab is an amount of space by which text is indented from the left margin. You can use tabs to align text in various ways. For example, if you place a tab stop one-half inch from the left margin and then press the Tab key, your text will be aligned at that point.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

WARM UP
What word completes the analogy?
IMAGINATIVE : CREATIVE :: stair : _____
1. feet
2. hallway
3. step
WORD QUIZ
gossamer
Which looks most like gossamer?
1. a spider's web
2. a turtle's shell
3. a fish's scales

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

(What is an analogy?)
EXCLUDE : INVITE :: _____ : quiet
1. chatty
2. church-mouse
3. silent

Friday, October 5, 2007