Microsoft Word Music Project

Project:
Students will research one of the following musical artists/groups of the 1950's or 1960's. Students will write a biography of the artist or group of their choice, a list of 10 songs, lyrics to their favorite song, pictures of that artist and/or albums, and a letter written to that artist.

List of Acceptable Artists

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

• Page Border
• An Image
• Your Full name
• Class Title (Introduction to Computers)
• Project Title
• Date
• Period Number
• Each item above should be on its own line
• Use Word Art only for the Project title
• Change your margins to 1.0" for the top, bottom, left and right
• Center align vertically everything on this page using spacing or whatever means you think best.
• Insert a Page break at the end of this page

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Page 2:  Table of Contents (Bookmarks and Hyperlinks)
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1. Include an appropriate title aligned in the center of the page
2. Include a border, not a page border, at the top of the page just underneath the title
3. Move back up to the cover page and set the Page border so that the APPLY TO section is set to "This Section - first page only"
4. Insert the name of every page that will be in the Document beginning with the Cover Page.
5. Set and use tab stop positions to help format the page.
6. Finish this page after you have created the rest of the document. Insert a Page break so that you can begin Page 3.
7. Insert a bookmark on every page so that you can create hyperlinks to them. See the Table of Contents lesson for help
8. Insert a hyperlink to each page in this document. See the Table of Contents lesson for help

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Page 3: The Biography 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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• 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
• 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.
• At the end of the biography, insert a page break.
• Create a Drop Cap for the first letter of the first word in the your biography.  Set the Drop Cap to span 3 lines.
• Go to File > Properties > Summary Tab > Author:  Type your full name
• 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.
  • Paragraph #2:  In your opinion, what was their biggest achievement?  Why do you think this?
  • 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.

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 go to Format, click columns, select 2 columns, make sure the "Apply to" arrow says "Selected Text", then click OK.

Now, move your cursor so that it is blinking somewhere in the two columns and change your margins to the following: 
Top: 0.75" Bottom: 0.75 Right: 0.6" Left: 0.6" and click OK.

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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
4. You may need to click on the "Same as Previous" icon on the Header and footer toolbar so that the your header will not be the same as it is on the first page.
5. Set your Header and Footer so that they do not show on the first page - Go to File/Page setup/layout/different First Page

Page 4: 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 5: The Letter
 

• Each of you will write your own letter to the artist or group (Use the letter format discussed in class. DO NOT change the format of the letter.)
• The letter should include:

1. A little bit about yourselves and why you chose that artist
2. A formatted list (Numbered or Bulleted) of the top five songs or awards of that artist or athlete listed alphabetically
3. One question you would like to ask that individual if you had the chance to meet them
4. Don't forget to include the 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.

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Page 6:  Images Page
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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
• Listing of all the web addresses, using proper MLA format, that were used to gather your information, images and anything else used for your report.
• You should have a minimum of 3 references listed.
• See the example below for proper MLA format of these web resources.
• Use your Hanging Indent to indent the second line of the bibliographic entry. (Select the entry/go to Format/paragraph/click on the "Special" box and select "Hanging")
  
• Sort each entry so that they are in alphabetical order.  Use the sort feature to do this.
   

If you cannot find the Author's name or it is not listed, then begin the MLA Reference with the Title of the Web Site.  You completely leave out the Author of the Website.

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