Microsoft Word Music/Athletic Project

Project:
Students will research one of the following musical artists/groups or athletes listed below.

List of Acceptable Artists

Students will demonstrate their ability to use the basic formatting features of Microsoft Word including:

Page 1: The Biography Page. (You must use proper MLA format for any web site and any quote that you include while researching this page).

While researching your biography, you must use at least one source from the Gale (the library's subscription database) databases.  To use this database you must do the following:

1. Open internet explorer and click on the "Library" link while at the Westview Wolverines website.
2. Locate the "Gale" link on the library page.
3. Login to the database by using the password on the back of your ID card.
4. In the "Find" search box, type in the name of the artist or athlete you are researching and click on "Search".
5. Once it displays the results, click on the "Books" tab at the top of the screen to display all reference articles.
6. Skim through the articles to locate one that suits your needs.
7. Don't forget to gather the correct MLA information because you will need to reference this later in your bibliography.  Make sure to enter that information Microsoft Word's Citation feature that you learned in lesson 5.

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• change your margins to the following: 
  Top: 0.75" Bottom: 0.75 Right: 0.6" Left: 0.6" and click OK.
• Include an appropriate title aligned in the center of the page (do not use Word art)
• Include a border, not a page border, at the top of the page just underneath the title
• Use font size 12 for the body text - Arial Font style
• What information to include in this page:
   
  • Paragraph #1:  Give a brief summary of the life and career highlights of the person(s) that you chose.  Within this paragraph, make sure that you have paraphrased something and that you have inserted a citation at the end of that paraphrasing.
     
  • Paragraph #2:  Locate a second source about your person(s).  Then, write about what you believe to be that person(s)' biggest achievement while quoting something from that article? Also, tell us why you think this is their biggest achievement?  Insert that source as a new citation.  Make sure that the citation is located at the end of the quote.
     
  • Paragraph #3:  What surprised you the most about this person (something that you did not know about them)?
     
  • Paragraph #4:  If you could, would you want to be this person?  Why or why not?  Everyone has good things and bad things happen to them.  Discuss how the positive and negative things this person has been exposed to would be fun and not fun for you.  Basically, describe how you would have felt if faced with the same situations as this person.
     
  • Paragraph #5:  Conclude with what is the biggest thing about life that you have learned from this person's life.
     
• Should include images of the artist or athlete no larger than 1.5" x 1.5"
• Should be at least one full page.  The text needs to be one page in length NOT including the images. (Images ca be put on a separate page).
• Justify Align all of the text in the biography. Do not include the Title of the page when doing this.
• Create a Drop Cap for the first letter of the first word in the your biography.  Set the Drop Cap to span 3 lines.
• At the end of the biography, insert a page break.
• Go to Office Icon > Prepare > Properties > Author:  Type your full name

DO THIS LAST: Then you need to put ONLY this page into two columns. To do this, Select all of the Biography text (do not select any extra text lines on this page, the title of the biography or the border at the top of the page.

Then put this text into two columns., make sure the "Apply to" arrow says "Selected Text", then click OK.

PART 2

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Specific Requirements for the following pages:

1. Move your cursor to Page 2 of your document and open the header and footer.
2. Header - Your name should be placed on the left side of the header - Font size 8
3. Footer - Place the Project name ("Microsoft Word Music Project") on the left, the page number in the center and date on the right side of the footer - Font Size 8

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Page 2: The Songs, Grammies, Academy Awards, Athletic Awards Page  (You must use proper MLA format for any web site and any quote that you include while researching this page).
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• Create a one column, 11 row table. 
• Use an appropriate Heading for the table.  Center the title of the table in row 1.
• Select 10 songs, Movies, Athletic awards and achievements from that individual and insert them into a table. 
• Sort the column alphabetically
• Align the contents of the cells in the center both vertically and horizontally
• Use shading (Make sure it is a light color so that the text is easy to read)
• Change the border widths, style and color for the table
• Two spaces below the table or on a separate page, center the title of your favorite song, list of movies, or list of participating athletic events.  Do not include this in your table.
• If you are writing your project on a musical artist, then below the title, insert the lyrics to the song.
• If you are writing your project on an Actor, then list the awards they have been nominated for and also won.
• If you are writing your project on an athlete, then list the schools and teams with which that person has played beginning with High School.

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Page 3: The Letter - Not sure how to do something, use your Help Manual
 

• Each of you will write your own letter to the artist or group.  However, if you just copied and pasted the song lyrics into your document from the internet, you are going to need to fix a formatting issue that occurred.
   
• If you need to fix this formatting issue, then click here
   
• The letter should include:

1. You return address/heading (see example below)
   
   
    
2. The Letter address - This is the address of the person to whom you are writing the letter.  It should be placed below the date with 3 blanks between it and the date.  It should be in normal date format:
   
   Jimi Hendrix
   12345 Voodoo Lane
   San Diego, CA 92129
    
3. The Salutation - This is the greeting.  "Dear Mr. Hendrix," is fine. It should be placed below the letter address with one blank line between it and the letter address.
    
4. Paragraph 1:
   This starts two lines below the salutation.  What that really means is that there should be one blank line between this and the salutation.  Do not indent this paragraph.  Write a little bit about yourself and why you chose that artist/athlete/actor...
    
5. Paragraph 2:
   Begin this paragraph two lines below the first one.  No indentations.  It should contain A formatted list (Numbered or Bulleted) of the top five songs or awards of that artist or athlete listed alphabetically.  Make sure to use the bullet or numbering list feature.  Don't simply type in the numbers. 
    
6. Paragraph 3:
   Start this paragraph off with a quote from a third source from the internet.  At some point in this paragraph, ask that person a question that relates to the quote that you used.  Make sure to cite this quote with citation.
    
7. Closing - This is your "Sincerely" line and your name.  It begins two lines below your last paragraph.  There are three blank lines between "Sincerely" and your name.  No indentations.
    
8. Watermark - A watermark is an image that has its wrapping set to "Behind Text" and its color is adjusted so that it is very light in color and barely seen.  Find an image that represents your artist and place this "watermark" behind your paragraphs.  To adjust the color, click on the image > Recolor > Washout
   
   
    
9. Here is how the overall letter should basically be set up - Click Here

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Page 4:  Images Page - Not sure how to do something, use your Help Manual
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• Find a minimum of 6 images related to your artist or athlete and put together a "Gallery" of images that represent that person's life.  Make sure to include the web address from you gathered those images in your "Works-Cited Page".
• Create a caption using a text box for each image.

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• Proper Heading - DO NOT use Word Art
• You should have a minimum of 3 references listed.
• This should be the last page in your document  HINT:  you will need to insert a page break
   

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PART 7

• Create a title page for this document.  Choose one of the title page formats and make sure that you fill in all of the default text boxes.

PART 8

Page 2:  Table of Contents (Bookmarks and Hyperlinks)
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1. Create a table of contents page between your Cover page and your Biography.
2. HINT:  You will need to insert a page break in order to get a blank page in the correct spot.
3.  Create links on each page that will take us back to the top of the table of contents.  HINT:  Create/insert a bookmark at the top of the table of contents page.

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PART 9

Grading:

The project is worth 20 points.  See the rubric below to figure our how the project will be graded.

1. Save this grading sheet to your directory. 
2. Open it from your directory
3. Compare your project to the grading sheet to see if you are missing anything
4. Print out the grading sheet and have your instructor check your project.