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__ Black Scientists in History– 8th grade __

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PA Standards -


 * NETS.1.6-8: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
 * NETS.2.6-8: Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
 * NETS.6.6-8: Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems and operations.

Objectives - using MW create an essay or a presentation about black actors in history
 * * The various ways to select text
 * Working with toolbars
 * Changing menu and toolbar
 * Using the Formatting Palette
 * Entering text into a document
 * Using Save and Save As
 * Working with the Toolbox
 * Cut, Copy, and Paste || * Create folders in Save As
 * Document views
 * Basic text editing
 * Working with the Clipboard
 * Using undo and redo
 * Spelling and grammar check
 * Working with fonts || * Using the insert table button
 * Entering text Into a table ||
 * * Place a Border Around Text
 * Page borders
 * Creating a Draw Object
 * Selecting objects
 * Object placement
 * Fill effects
 * Formatting lines || * Resizing objects
 * Deleting an object
 * Clip Art Task Pane
 * Inserting a picture
 * Picture Formatting Options
 * Creating WordArt
 * Modifying WordArt
 * WordArt placement ||  ||

Evidence of best practice – students will be able to refer to the video and helpful tips on my wiki at anytime they get stuck and Model lesson before students are allowed to complete task.

Activity - Students will write 8 facts about a Black scientists - any interesting facts from Remember you’re in **8th grade** and I should look an 8th grader wrote it!!!!

Type your facts in a Microsoft word. Use a font no larger than 14. You may use text boxes if you'd like to create a more interesting presentation. Small Pictures would be great, if you can put them in properly with **//__text wrap__//**. Remember your name and room, as well as a title. Do NOT plagiarize !!

Facts include –
 * 1) when they were born, died and how,
 * 2) records they have
 * 3) family life
 * 4) details of education
 * 5) features they have been in
 * 6) how they started out
 * 7) awards won, if any
 * 8) failures they have had
 * 9) other important details of their life

Example: short example of paraphrasing
 * __ One man's mission __**

It would show two black pros who were denied the chance to compete in the 1948 Richmond Open because of the color of their skin. And as a result, it was there where one of those two men, Bill Spiller, opened the struggle to change that order of things.
 * COPIED FROM WEBSITE: **

He wanted to play on the pro tour, the real pro tour, the one the white guys played on. He finally did, but by the time his singular effort took root to end black discrimination in American golf, and in particular on the U.S. pro tour, he was well beyond his playing prime. It was a personal loss he felt more and more heavily, even tragically, as he ended his days.

In 1948 there was Pro tour through Richmond Virginia. Unfortunately blacks were not allowed on the tour. Bill Spiller wanted to change this. HE wanted to play with the white athletes on the Pro golf tour. Once they finally let him play he was past his prime. This was a huge loss for him until his death.
 * PARAPHRASED IN MY WORDS: **