If you’d like to receive this item plus everything else needed to teach 180 days of English 9 or English 10 at a deeply discounted price, click here to learn more about the full-year curriculum download. If you already own the full-year download, please do not purchase this item here individually. NOTE: This item is also included in my English 9-10 full-year curriculum. For more lesson ideas, be sure to check out my catalog of writing instruction materials. I hope your classes enjoy this real-world writing task. This "How to Email" lesson is a crucial first-week-of-school lesson to ensure your own email basket isn't filled with cringe-inducing messages from students. Another tip: When composing emails, always remember to use the appropriate salutation and parting formula as well. If you’re a Microsoft Teams user, you can export the Google version of the files to create a PowerPoint version of the interactive worksheets. Feel free to choose the scenario that applies best to your student population or use all three prompts within one class period for differentiated assignments.Īll student handouts are provided as both PDF versions to print and use in your classroom and Google Drive versions to use with online learners. Finally, have students work individually to craft an email of their own using the rules you’ve established to fulfill one of three real-world scenarios. Then, assign students to evaluate four sample emails sent by high school students seeking a summer internship. All e-mail routes messages into a default Inbox, all e-mail has management tools (organize in Outlook and filtering in Netscape), all e-mail allows you to send attachments, and all e-mail lets you send messages in text only formats or advanced html formats.Teach your students proper email etiquette – or "email netiquette" – with this 45-minute "How to Email" lesson that includes a high-interest introductory lecture and two fun real-world writing activities.įirst, present the right and wrong way to build an email message with a dynamic 15-slide lecture (Prezi, PDF, and Google Slides versions included). Regardless of which e-mail application you use, the LOGIC of e-mail is the same. E-mail applications are extremely powerful and each new version tries to add some bell or whistle to justify the upgrade. Unfortunately, the specific steps to filtering e-mail vary with each application and often with each version of the application. They will appear the same visually (height and width and resolution), but they will download differently, but one is over 3 times larger than the other! If you are involved in creating any of these file types, be sure to learn the methods for saving the files in sizes that do not compromise quality to a degree that the file content is harmed, but that will help users avoid lengthy download times. Some material will not easily fit inside email text, like a PowerPoint file, and you will need to attach it.įile size matters, especially if your attachment is an Adobe Portable Document File (.pdf), a PowerPoint File (.ppt), or an image file (.gif or. Whenever possible try to send messages as part of the text of a message instead of as an attached word processing file (like a Word document). Some departments may not allow attachments at all. As a result IT departments often block certain attachments (designated by filename. Not all viruses are delivered as attachments, but many are. This gives you a short time to stop your message from going out, in case you change your mind. Under the Send tab, make sure "Send messages immediately" is unchecked. For example, in Microsoft's Outlook, look under Tools > Options. That way, when you click "Send," the message actually goes into a queue and is sent the next time your e-mail is checked. Most e-mail programs let you set a delay for outgoing messages. You may want to tone down your message after a second look. When you return, read your message again. Go get some coffee, or just walk outside for a moment. If you are sending a message in anger, take this advice one step further. Make sure what you have written cannot be easily misunderstood. To avoid embarrassing and potentially job-threatening mistakes, take a minute before you click the "Send" button to re-read your message. If youre responding to an email within your organization, use the email address. There have been many times when a click of the mouse has sent the wrong message, sometimes to many people at once.
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