Pollution Essay Instructions and Question

1. Go to Start, Programs, Microsoft Word.
   
   
2. Center your text by clicking on the center icon in the tool bar.
   
   
3. Change the size of your text by clicking on Format, Font, then choose size 24 on the right side of that window.
   
   
4. On the left side of that same window, choose the ARIAL type of font or another one of your choosing. Make sure that it is clearly readable.
   
   
5. In the middle of that box, choose bold for the style, then click OK at the bottom of that window.
   
   
6. In the color field, choose another color for your title.
   
   
7. Now type in the title of your report which will be as you see below
   For example:
   Essay on Pollution and the Environment
   by Robert Lamothe
   Tech Literacy
   March 13, 2009
   
   
8. Hit return.
   
   
9. Now change the size of your text to size 14, arial and change the color back to black.
   
   
10. SAVE your file in your grade directory, (folder), for example, if you are in grade nine, save it in your grade9 folder. Please remember that there should be no space in your file name with all lower case letters.
    
    

11. Begin typing your essay. Below is the question and some guidelines and ideas for what to include.
    
    

Question for your Pollution and the Environment essay:

There has been a great deal of interest in our environment lately. Many articles have been written about issues such as global warming, renewable energy, alternative energy, climate changes due to carbon dioxide pollution as well as health risks, and flooding of our coastlines due to global warming. Areas of concern include water pollution, air pollution, and health hazards caused by various chemicals that can cause cancer and other heatlh problems such as asthma.

Please write an essay about the issues that I have just outlined. Start with a thesis statement-description of your topic. Please use suporting facts and information. You may ONLY use your notes that you took from the movie we saw, An Inconvenient Truth. If you did not take any notes you will have to write your essay from what you remember from the movie and what you remember from hearing about pollution on the news and from what you may have previously studied in other classes and grades.

Your essay must be at least 2 pages long.