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."
                                                                                                                         Buddha

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"
                                                      I'm really not sure

Franchise Cost Comparison

Franchise Cost Comparison

Below is a list of local franchises, either in Center or the surrounding areas. I want you to pick 7 of these franchises and see if you can locate the following information concerning the franchises you pick:

Write a description of the business.
When was the company founded?  When did they start Franchising?
What is their rank in the top 500?
Who is the Parent Company if it is different?
Where is the headquarters located?
Average initial franchise fees.
Net worth required.
Liquid asset requirements???
Are there any building requirements? (required to open more than one?)
How many U.S. locations are there of your franchise?
Is there a Corporate support staff?  Do they provide any training?

The franchises you have to choose from are:

Chili's

Raising Cane's

Taco Bell
McDonalds
Burger King
Jack-in-the-Box
Super 8 Hotels
Ace Hardware
Best Western Hotels
Hampton Inn
Sonic
Hibbett Sports

Ci Ci's Pizza
NAPA
Chicken Express
Anytime Fitness
24 Hour Fitness
5 Guys Burgers
Raising Cane's
Pizza Hut
Fuzzy's
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Roto-Rooter

Buffalo Wild Wings
Mazzios Pizza
El Chico
7-11
Denny's
IHOP
Valero
O'Reilly Auto Parts
Sport Clips
Subway
Jimmie Johns

Wing Stop

Chilly Fillmores
Frozen Goat
Smoothie King
Jiffy Lube
Dairy Queen

Place an additional slide after the title slide that provides a definition of what a Business Franchise is? 

When you begin searching for this information you may want to search for Franchise cost, top 500 popular franchises, etc...You may be able to find all the information from their corporate website but you may have to look other places as well.

Rank them from the most expensive to least expensive in your presentation. Again, I will not tell you how to present this information. You can use Google slides, create a table that will compare all of the information, or use power point. If you choose to use Power Point make sure that you are saving you file and uploading it to your drive every day and downloading it back into power point each day.  Make it professional and neat before you submit it for grading.

"Get'er done."
                Larry the Cable Guy

Freakin Easy 100 Friday

I have noticed that the wall outside our classroom has been lacking in Christmas Spirit.  So today to earn a freakin easy 100 using the Paint program on your computer you are to draw something that reminds you of this season.  It can be a tree, and ornament, Menorah, Santa, Rudolph, a house with lights on it, etc....whatever reminds you in your way of this season.  The only catch is that for it to be printed and hung on the wall outside our classroom you MUST be proud enough to put your name in there somewhere.  Save the file as a .jpeg file (christmas_your name) and upload it to your drive and turn it in to our Google Classroom.  If you give some effort you will recieve a freakin easy 100, if not you will recieve a circular grade.

Also if you have not completed ANY assignment for this six weeks today would be a great day to do that and receive some credit for it and not the big fat zero that you have now.

"To be or not to be, that is the question."
                                                   William Shakespeare

Welcome back Monday.

Your mission is to create a Powerpoint or Google slides that tells the story of your Thanksgiving break without using any words.  Your document must include at least 10 pictures or graphics that tell what you did during your break.  It would be nice if they went in  the order the events took place but it is not mandatory.  The only slide that may have words on it is the Title slide.  I would think that you can do this is no more than 4 slides including the title slide.  Be creative and tell a picture story of your break.

"Individual committment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
                                                                         Vince Lombardi

Today/Tomorrow you will complete the practice prompt 2 that should be at your station.

Using Microsoft Word insert a header that includes your name, date, and class period that is right aligned.  Change the spacing of the document to single spacing or No Spacing.  Type the document as is on the first page and when you have completed that insert a page break to take you to the second page.  If you have created a header then your name, etc... should be on the second page already.

Copy and paste the entire document to the second page (make sure it is still set to single spacing) and make the following changes to the document.

- Title you paper Human Services Careers  - center, 20 pt, Goudy Stout font (Delete Practice promt 2)
- Indent first paragraph
- Create a second paragraph starting with the sentence, Ideas for events.....
- Double space between the paragraphs and indent the second paragraph
- Create a third paragraph starting with the sentence, Reviews, ratings, and....
- Double space between 2nd and 3rd paragraphs and indent the 3rd paragraph.
- Center align the first paragraph and change the font to Algerian 14 pt.
- Justify align the second paragraph and change the font to Broadway 16 pt.
- Rt. align the 3rd paragraph and change to Viner Hand ITC 12pt.
- Underline, Bold, and change the text color of the word online everytime it appears.  You choose the color and it can be a different color each time.
- Change the case of the second paragraph to Capitalize every word.
- Save your file as practice prompt_your name.
- Upload your file into your google drive.

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, but this time more intelligently."
                                                                                        Henry Ford