What a Day!!

Well, the first part of Spring testing has come and gone! Today, I gave the writing portion of the GEE to my Sophomore homeroom. You ask what that has to do with RHS Career Choices? It's simple. These freshmen will be sophomores soon, and have this test to look forward to. The students handled the pressure well. As for the teacher, maybe not so well. Testing is stressful on everyone involved!

Back to Career Choices. Today in the Computer Applications portion of the class, we began our unit on Memos. Students were taught the differences between a memo and a letter, and how the memo is used in an organization. We then covered the margins of a memo and how to set those margins in Word. They then keyed their first memo! The question asked most often today was "why do I put my initials at the bottom?" It was difficult for the students to understand that even though they were typing the memo, the memo was not from them but from the writer. I explained that the writer was "the boss" and they were the "secretary" (which the guys didn't like). If there was a problem with the memo when the "boss" read it, the initial would tell him/her who to go to for an answer. This helped them to understand. Tomorrow we will continue formatting memos, and by the end of the week, the students will be writing their own memo to Mr. Milstead!