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Introduction of Production Work
Students will complete their warm-up and minimize the Keyboarding program. Students will then open MS Word.

Each day, students will have two warm-ups on the board. The first will be a question that the students will have to answer. The students should write for 5 minutes, whatever comes to mind. Some days they will not be able to answer the questions while on others they will be writing for a while. They can always go back and add at a later time if they think of something to say.
Students will create a folder in their H drive for their Keyboarding documents. Students will click
FILE>SAVE AS>NEW FOLDER(ICON)>H DRIVE>'KEYBOARDING'>OK

Students must save all their work in this drive-if they don't it will be hard to find, may be erased, and can lead to twice as much work. Students must make certain that they save to the H drive and not the C drive. Each week, I will be clearing out the C drive, and all work will be lost.

Students will begin their journal with the first question:
What do you like best about Thanksgiving break?

I will allow 5 minutes to respond free style. Once they have finished, students should type
SAVE AS>KEYBOARDING>(INITIALS)JOURNAL

Each day the student will open the document and add to it-they are not to create a new document each day.