Word Processing Activity 08

Post date: Sep 21, 2016 7:38:58 PM

Newsletter Assignment

You are going to write a short news story in newspaper format (2 columns). Tell about a spaceship and an alien that you’ve discovered. In paragraph 1 (column 1) report how you discovered the spaceship.In paragraph 2 (column 2) tell what the alien looks like, what they wear, how they communicate, what they like to eat, or anything else that you want to add.

Add a graphic from clipart or the Internet or using the drawing tools to draw your space friends and their ship.

Directions:

1. Open a word processing document.

2. Go to Insert – Header. Type Activity 8 and your name. Double click The top of your document to open this option as well. Close the header when you were done.

3. Go to Page Layout - Columns – 2.

4. Do not change the size or font of your text. Type the byline – Reported by (your name). Click on…no spacing by changing your line spacing to 1, then justify the text. (alignment button) This will put an even edge on the sides of your text. Hit enter twice.

5. In the first column, write a paragraph or two about how you discovered the spaceship. Do not change the size or font. Make sure to use complete sentences and proper punctuation. Ideas as to what to write:

          • What were you doing before you found the ship?

          • What did you need to do to get to the ship?

          • What did the ship look like?

          • What was the condition of the ship? Did it crash or land?

          • What did the area around the ship look like?

          • Where there witnesses, other people there?

          • What did the witnesses tell you?

6. Press enter until you reach column 2. Type in a paragraph or two about the alien. This again should be just as your first. Notice if you add anything to your first paragraph it will push down your second one. Here are some idea as to what to write:

  • What was the alien doing when you arrived?

  • How did the aliens react to you?

  • Is the Alien injured?

  • Was the alien hostile to you or friendly?

  • What did the alien look like?

  • Was the alien a reptile, mammal, amphibious, aquatic, robotic or a combination of all these?

  • Did the alien have any handheld technology and what did it look like?

  • Where there witnesses, other people there?

7. At the bottom of column 1 put a picture of the spaceship.

8. At the bottom of column 2 put a picture of the alien.

Make sure your pictures are warped behind the text.

9. Save as Activity 8 and Hand into Haiku.