Monday-

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

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

Tuesday-

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.

Wednesday-

Topics:  Final suggestions on letter; how to print an envelope

Activities:  Students to make any final corrections as marked by Mrs. Ross.  Resave and reprint final copy of letter.  Students will then print an envelope with appropriate return and shipping addresses in order to mail their letters.  Students will turn in letter and envelope to Mrs. Ross for mailing.

Thursday-

Topics:  How to set up a Gmail account;  how to compose an email

Activities:  Students to set up a Gmail account if they do not already have one.  Students to then compose an original email and successfully send to Mrs. Ross with the subject of “First Email Assignment“.

Friday-

Topics:  How to open an email, how to reply to an email

Activities:  Students to open Mrs. Ross’ email and send a reply to her question(s).  We will then brainstorm as a class alist of good questions that students can ask their classmates in order to discover more about them.  Students will then write their names and email addresses on slips of paper.  The slips will be randomly distributed to class.  Students will then write to the address they have received.  They will introduce themselves and pose four of the brainstormed questions.  If time, students will respond to the email they have received from classmate and pose 4 questions back.

TEKS:  130.115(c)(2)(B,D,F)(3)(A,B,C)