Excel. Spreadsheets.

I've never been a huge fan of excel, what with the numbers and formulas and such. This week we created two spreadsheets to demonstrate excel's usability in our classrooms. I appreciate this option, but am not sure if I will make use of it in my classroom or not. My recent experience in some economically disadvantaged high schools has shown me that many students may not have a grasp on how to use many of the programs and features in Microsoft Office, not to mention no access to a computer from home. Of course, I would like to help them develop these skills, but with everything else to cover in my English curriculum, I'm not sure if I would have a great deal of class time to do so. I guess my decision on whether to use this particular assignment/quiz option would depend on the class or the school I was teaching in at that time.

The assignment below is a grammar practice worksheet that reviews the 8 parts of speech and some other grammatical terms.