AdvancedMicrosoft Office
Professional
Mrs. Morelli
Half year courseRequired for GraduationComputer Skills for:
Personal Use Educational Use Employment Use
Office 2007 used
Fast ForWord Software
Exercises the Brain Memory Attention Processing Sequencing
Fast ForWord Literacy Level
Moves high school students toward grade level reading skills, with a focus on listening accuracy, phonological awareness, and language structures.
Fast ForWord Literacy Continued Development of critical brain processing efficiency
in four key areas:• Improves memory by requiring holding a word or
statement in short-term memory while retrieving picture-concept associations from long-term memory.
• Improves attention by making students focus on the tasks at hand.
• Strengthens processing ability through auditory, visual, and linguistic processing of orally and visually presented stories for meaning and comprehension.
• Develops sequencing through exercises that require using word order to comprehend simple and complex statements and instructions and organizing a response that follows the specified sequence of actions.
Fast Forward Reading Level 4
Fast ForWord Reading Level 4 exercises expand reading skills by applying knowledge of word origins, word forms, sentence structures, and punctuation rules to improve comprehension.
Reading Level 4 Continued To accelerate reading progress, Fast ForWord Reading
Level 4 software develops critical brain processing efficiency in four key areas:
Builds memory by having students use working memory to compare paragraphs with single sentence paraphrases.
Improves attention by enhancing the ability to focus on different aspects of presented vocabulary and ignore distractions.
Develops processing of images and sounds quickly enough to discriminate between their differences.
Develops sequencing by using logical relationships, word order and syntax to identify precise meanings.
Microsoft Word (Word Processing)
Create a document, Edit a document Flyers
Research Papers with citations/bibliography
Tabbed Text & Tables Cover Letter & Resume with Template
Desktop Publishing – Advertisements, Newsletters
Mail Merge (Mass Mailings)
Microsoft Excel(Spreadsheets/Worksheets)
Create and edit data in a worksheet
Format Text and Numbers for a professional appearance
Math Calculations (formulas/functions)
Create charts/graphs
Microsoft PowerPoint(Presentations)
Create and Run a presentation Change Slide layouts/backgrounds Format Text, Insert/Format Graphics Enhance presentations (sound/motion) Hyperlinks & Action Buttons
- Interactive Presentation Project Presentation using projector
Microsoft Access Database Management Create a table and add records Create custom reports Sort and Filter Data
Microsoft Publisher Flyer with Tear-offs Tri-fold brochure
Grading
Fast ForWord Weekly Progress Grade Completion of weekly goal, participation
Creation of a chapter project together as a class to introduce new material.
2 to 3 individual exercises All assignments graded using a rubric
Chapter Review Questions
Chapter Tests
Class Participation
Morelli Money Students work towards accumulating
$20.00 by end of the nine weeks. Quarters earned for daily participation,
answering questions, exemplary work, helping others, bonus work, etc.
Money paid for poor behavior and/or lack of respect in the classroom
Money paid to rent materials student should have for class
Extra Time for Work Students can obtain passes to come up
and work during Homeroom/Activity Period.
Students can obtain passes for study hall time
Students can see me to schedule time after school
Students can see me to schedule a time mutually convenient for both parties
Check homework hotline
Business, Information, Technology Courses PowerPoint & Web Design Video Game Development / Programming Desktop Publishing Accounting & Advanced Accounting Typing / Word Processing Exploratory Business Finance Marketing Sports and Entertainment Marketing Small Business Management Principles of Management International Business Business Law And Others, check the course offerings when your child
registers or the Business Department brochure
Microsoft OfficeProfessional
Mrs. Morelli