Dream Vacation Project

You have just won $25,000 and have decided to take a seven day dream vacation, but first your need to develop a plan!  Your vacation can be what you want it to be:  you can fly around the world, go skiing in Europe, travel to Asian countries or book a hunters dream trip for a week.  Use your imagination, after all you have 25K!!!!!

Your plan will include an itinerary (using word or docs), a budget spreadsheet (using Excel), and a power point or slides showing where you are going and things you are going to do on your vacation.

You will need to create a folder in your drive titled Dream Vacation and put all the documents created for this assignment in this folder.

You will research what an Itinerary is and create one for all seven days of your trip.  It should include flights, ship off times if a cruise, hotels, check in check out times, details of your trip on a day to day basis. This document should cover all 7 days.  You can put in page breaks and put each day on a separate page but still in the same document.  If you look up some examples it will help you with planning this document.  Your vacation should leave on Sunday and return on Saturday.

You will research all the cost involved in taking this dream vacation and create a spreadsheet budget to account for all the cost associated with this trip.  Your budget will need to include transportation cost, food cost, Entertainment cost (shows, skydiving, scuba diving, etc), hotel cost, etc…. You will have to do extensive research to get accurate cost information.   You will need to put in the proper formulas to total your expenses for this trip.  Research example budgets to give you an idea of a format you might like to use.  Make sure that you make your budget look awesome.  Use borders, shading, format your numbers with $$, etc…..  You need to spend as much of your $25,000 as possible but do not go over.

You will create a slide presentation that shows where you are going on your vacation.  It should include enough slides to show what you are planning to do on each day.

Classroom Inventory Spreadsheet

In your Google Classroom I have sent you an example excel spreadsheet for our Classroom Inventory assignment.  This is only an example you may make yours look a bit different.

Count all the items on the list that are in our classroom and then construct an Excel spreadsheet that resembles the example that I have sent to you in classroom.  Follow the instructions that are given to you at the bottom of the example.  You may use different fill colors to accent your spreadsheet, just remember that some are harder than others to see through and you want your spreadsheet to look good and easy for an old man like me to read.

To get the design I have in my chart you will use the fill effects button under the fill pattern tab in the format cells dialog box.  (highlight range, right click, format cells)

Save the file as your name_inventory and upload to your drive and then delete the file from the computer.

"No one saves us but ourselves.  No one can and no one may.  We ourselves must walk the path."
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Gratitude Letter writing activity

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Happy New Year, it is 2017!!!!  I hope each of you had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Using the Gratitude Letter writing guide you are to think of someone who has helped you in the past and you are to compose a letter to them using the brainstorm questions provided for you.  This person can be anyone from your past or present but not the future.  Think of that person and answer each of the questions on the page.(write something down!)  Based on what you have written down as your aswers you will compose a letter to this person.

This letter should be at least 4 paragraphs and 300 words and addressed to this person.

Dear So and So,

Body of letter (4 paragraphs)

Sincerely,



Your Name

The letter should be properly formatted with correct spelling.

- change the spacing to single spacing
- Go to file/page setup and change the margins to .5 on all of them
- also change the page color to something that is different but easy to still read.  This is also under          Page setup.
- Change the font to Courier New
- indent each paragraph .5 inch (tab)
- name your document Gratitude Letter where it says Untitled document in the top left of your screen.
- double space between each paragraph.
- justify align your letter.

"Choose the path that leads to AWESOME"
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