Students work indepentantly with thesaurus. Assist students in finding words for their worksheet. Students decide on 3 words that are not synonyms to the original word. Begin formatting the students worksheets. Use the chalkboard or overhead to model how the worksheet should be set up.
Students begin developing worksheets.
Teacher assist students in the creation and proofreading of worksheets. Students make corrections. Take students to computer lab and show them how to use a word processing program. Students thrilled to not be in class. Collect final copies after they are printed.