Monday-

Topics:  Memos

Activities:  Students will take notes and participate in discussion about using memos in a business.  Sample topics:  what a memo is, parts and spacing, etc.  Students will brainstorm a list of reasons why one might send a memo.  Students will then compose an original memo on the computer.  Save to flash drive as Memo and print when complete.

Tuesday-

Topics:  Business letters

Activities:  Students will take notes and participate in discussion about business letters in a business. Example topics:  what is a business letter, parts and spacing, etc.  Students to then type the sample business letter.

Wednesday-

Topics:  Parts and spacing of a personal business letter; reasons to send a personal business letter

Activities:  Students to take notes and participate in discussion.  Students will then come up with an idea to send a real personal business letter with the objective of either informing, persuading, complaining, etc.  Students must get idea approval before beginning research as to address and contact information of the letter.

Thursday-

Topics:  Recap of yesterday’s assignment of composing an  original personal business letter

Activities:  Students to finish composing and typing their original personal business letter from yesterday.  Save as:  personal business letter to flash drive and print.

Friday-

Topics:  Professionalism and proofreading

Activities:  Review proofreading symbols with class.  Students to then exchange their printed personal business letters with a partner.  Each student will then proofread and mark any errors or any suggestions that they feel necessary (using appropriate proofreading symbols).  Students will then re-exchange letters and correct any errors that were found.  Students should also run Spell Check, resave, and print to turn in for a daily grade.