8th+Assignment+Y+The+Last+Man

__** SKILL PRACTICE: **__** (Skill focus: Paragraph writing, using standard writing conventions,using technology, summarizing) **

What we're going to begin working on is keeping a reading/writing log. The purpose for this is just to have a place to write your thoughts, feelings, reflections, and whatever connections you to have to a text you just read. A text could be a video, a movie clip, or anything you read online. Later in this unit, you will use you reading log document to write about whatever reading strategies you use to help you deal with a difficult text. This will be a way for you to practice writing about what you are learning. Eventually, with enough practice, it will be easy for you to write about what you have learned at length. Right now, click the document below and read all directions. Make sure you label your document in a way that will make it easy for you to find your document. Follow the steps below if you are still having trouble.

**(worth 1 point)**




 * Using "Save As..." to label your document.**

First, you need to go to the "File" folder tab. Like this:

Then you are going to select, "Save As..." It should be under "Save."

Once you select "Save As..." a window will open up allowing you to name your file. Like this:

Make sure you write your initials after the name of the file. You may want to write your initials last, but the last letters, ".docx" tell the file what it is. When you see that, you know it a Microsoft Word document. When you label it something like this, ".docxfq" or .docx.fq" you end up telling the computer that it is a different kind of file. It will no longer be able to be opened with a normal writing program on the computers. Label it like this:

After you label it, make sure you know where it "lives." It should be saved in the "Documents" folder. Always know where to find your work. Find the "Documents" folder here under the "Where:" section of the window like this:

Once you have labeled it in a way that makes it yours, you do not need to keep selecting "Save As..." every time you want to save. All you need to do is select "Save" like you normally would. Now you know how to take a document off the internet and make it your own!


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