Making+a+Storybook

= Making A Storybook =

Have you ever wanted to make your own storybook? The computer can help us make and format our own stories, so that we can print them or share them with others.

**Assignment**
Your assignment is to make a page from a storybook. The goal is to take all the pieces provided and make it look exactly like the example. You will learn skills that will let you to make a story book of your own.

Your page should look like this when you are finished:


 * But how do we get there? Follow the steps!**

//**Step One**://

 * Open //Microsoft Office Word//.
 * **Copy** the following text, and **Paste** it onto the empty page.

Once upon a time, there was a grasshopper who loved to frawlic and sing and lay about. He would leap through the grass and chirp, and then spend his days relaxing on a stone, enjoying the summer sun. Sometimes, he would see an ant pass by, toyleng in the heat, carrying a seed or a nut or a bit of corn. The grasshopper saw no need for the ant to work so hard. “Why not come relacks with me in the sun, instead of working all day?” chirped the grasshopper. “You should be relaxing, like me.” The ant replied, “I am trying to put away food for the winter. You should probably do the sayme.” “Why bother?” the grasshopper chirped back. “I have plentee of food right now.” The days of summer came and went and the grasshopper continued to lie in the sun as the ant worked at putting food away for the winter. Finally, the winter came and the grasshopper had no food. He shivvered in the cold, and saw the ant passing by with a seed. “My friend,” churped the hongrey grasshopper, “can you spare me some food? Winter has come and I cannot find any myself.” The cunning ant replied, “You should have spent your summer preparing for winter, like me.” The grasshopper knew the ant was right.


 * Then click on **File**, click on **Save As**, name the file **Grasshopper.doc**, check to be sure that you are saving in your student folder and then press **Save.**

//**Step Two:**//

 * There are **eight** spelling mistakes in the story. **Find** them and **fix** them.
 * **Select** all the text and then change the font to **Georgia**, **12 point.** Change the colour to **black**.
 * **Select** "Once upon a time," and change the font size to **16 point.** Click right after it and press **Enter** to put it on its own line.
 * Go to the very beginning of the text and add a title, **"The Ant and the Grasshopper"**, and make it **Georgia, 18 point. Center** the title on its own line. Leave an empty line after it for good spacing.
 * **Save** your work.

//**Step Three:**//

 * Make **columns**. Go down past the title to the beginning of the story, and **Select** all the text. Then, **Format** the text into **two columns.**
 * **Double space** the text by going **Format**, and then **Paragraph**, then **Spacing**, and selecting **Double.**
 * **Adjust the margins.** Change the margins to be **1" Left, 1" Right, 1" Top, and 1" Bottom.**
 * **Find the paragraphs.** Go and make proper paragraphs by pressing **Enter.** Use the example to see where paragraphs start.
 * **Save** your work.

//**Step Four:**//

 * The finished page has three pictures in it. One of them is a fancy letter that we are going to use at the beginning. [|fancyo.jpg].
 * **Copy** it (right click) and then **Paste** it onto the page. **Resize** it and then place it at the start of the story, and set its wrapping to **Tight.** Delete the O in "Once" to make it look right.
 * **Save** these two pictures to your computer.
 * [|antandgrasshopper2.jpg]
 * [|andandgrasshopper.jpg]


 * Then **Insert** the pictures into your document, **Resize** and **Position** them, and set their wrapping to **Square.** Put them in on the page to match the example.

==If you completed all those steps, you're done! If your page doesn't look exactly like the example, try to tweak it to make it look right, or go back and go through the steps again. Please have your teacher check your story before you go onto the enrichment activity.==

Enrichment
If you are finished early, you can re-write the story of the ant and the grasshopper. You can invent a different ending or make something interesting happen to the characters that changes the story. No longer than 1 page, please,

**Grading**
Product - How much does your finished page look like the example? 4 = Exactly. 3 = Mostly. 2 = Sort of. 1 = Not very much. 0 = Not at all.
 * Here is how you are being graded for this assignment:**

Process - How well did you work during the assignment? 4 = Worked very well, had no trouble staying on task. 3 = Worked well, mostly stayed on task. 2 = Worked okay, had trouble staying on task. 1 = Worked poorly, couldn't stay on task. 0 = Did not work at all.