Unit 1: Students will understand the process of planning a document.
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Students should understand the importance of preplanning a document in terms of audience, purpose, timeline, budget, page arrangement, and production method.
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Students will use guides, grids, and columns to set up their documents as a way to create consistency and unity.
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Students will understand that master pages are used to create consistency and increase productivity.
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Students will understand headers and footers contain recurring information and that they are used to help organize a publication.
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Students will understand that slug space is a space outside the printed area in which you can place instructions that stay with your document.
Unit 2: Students will expand on typography and design principles learned in DTP I.
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Students will develop an understanding of basic desktop publishing terminology.
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Students will understand that those fonts can be used to portray the mood or message of a publication.
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Students will use styles and style sheets for consistency and productivity within a publication.
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Students will understand how to create type on and edit text paths.
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Students will understand how to thread and flow text/frames.
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Students will understand how to create a pull quote to enhance a document.
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Students will understand the appropriate use of captions.
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Students will understand the purpose and difference between em dash and en dash.
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Students will recognize widows, orphans, and ragged lines and use kerning, tracking, and proper hyphenation to correct them.
Unit 3: Students will understand the proper use of color in publications.
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Students will understand that there are two ways that color is added to a printed page: process color and spot color.
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Students will create variations of color using tint, patterns, gradients, and opacity.
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Students will understand the difference between the screen color (monitor vs. printed document) and print color.
Unit 4: Students will optimize images to enhance publications.
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Students will understand the file extensions that are compatible with professional desktop publishing software.
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Students will understand how to use standoff space.
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Students will determine if an image is acceptable for print based on its resolution.
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Students will create COBs (cut out background) with transparent backgrounds.
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Students will create frames using different shapes and sizes.
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Students will be able to resize an objective while maintaining aspect ratio.
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Students will learn touchup techniques to enhance images.
Unit 5: Students will demonstrate an understanding of ethics related to the use of images and text.
