Word Processing

In this exercise you will create a student worksheet about the Gettysburg Address. You will use the following skills:

• Formatting font
• Formatting paragraphs
• Cutting and pasting
• Using the drawing tools
• Creating and formatting tables
• Inserting pictures
• Creating a header
• Setting margins
• Spell checking

Clicking on each instruction will take you to a topic to help you to complete the task.

Step 1

Open a blank Word document. Copy and paste the following material into it.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberity and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor longe remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full mesure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

Directions: Fill in the blank with one of the words in the box below

1. Government of the people, by the people and for the people is called a ____________.
2. Four score and seven years is another way of saying ____________ years.
3. ____________ is another word for speech.
4. This speech was given in ____________ Pennsylvania.
5. To hallow means to make ____________.
6. President Lincoln's speech was made on a ____________.

Step 2

Create the document according to the following specifications. When you are finished save your file as WPAnswer

• Cut Gettysburg Address from the bottom of the text and paste it above the text to be used as the title
• Title: Centered, formatted as Comic Sans, 18 pt., Bold
• Margins: Left and right = 0.75" Top and bottom = 0.75"
• Paragraphs (not the numbered questions) should
  1. Have A 0.5" first line indent
  2. Have a 6 pt. spacing after each paragraph
  3. Be formatted to Comic Sans 10 pt. font.
  4. Add a 6 pt. spacing before the first paragraph.
• Italicize the words: of the people, by the people, for the people
• Numbered questions should have 1.5-line spacing. Format as Comic Sans 11 pt.
• Download the picture of Abraham Lincoln that is at the bottom of the page to your computer.
• Insert the picture "abrahaml.gif" between the title and text and left align.
• Using the drawing tools, draw a 1"x 2" banner to the right of the picture. Fill with yellow color. Rotate 180¡. Right align.
• Create a textbox on the banner that says: November 19, 1863. Center the words.
• Insert a 3 column, 2 row table after the questions. Format so only the outside border appears.
• Enter the following vocabulary words in the table, one per cell: Gettysburg, democracy, eighty-seven, battlefield, address, holy.
• A place for students to put their name and the date must be in a header.
• Format the directions to be Comic Sans 11 pt. bold.
• Perform a Spell Check and correct all spelling errors. Ignore all grammar errors.

Download image of Abraham Lincoln

Compare your results to the final document.