Lesson 5-Practice Session:

This is bound to be easier than Lesson 4. At least now you know where NotePad is and how to save a file.

Let's find some different text: How about this:

There's some RED text below. Copy it into NotePad:

  1. Find NotePad again;
  2. Click on File and select New to give you a blank page.
  3. Select the red text on this page and press CTRL + C to copy the text.
  4. Then go to NotePad and press CTRL + V to paste the text into NotePad.

Then see if you can put the following presidential sayings in the correct order by when the person who said each was President. (For example: something said by Washington would go first, followed by Adams, etc.) Highlight the saying you think was said first, use CTRL-C to copy onto your clipboard, then CTRL-V to paste back onto the top of the list. Repeat until you have them in sequence.

"There's nothing to fear but fear itself!"

"Ask not what your country can do for you but rather what you can do for your country!"

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

"The buck stops here!"

"I believe when a witness is under oath..., the witness should do everything possible to answer the questions truthfully."

"I am not a crook!"


Here's the correct answer:

F. D. Roosevelt (32nd President) said:
"There's nothing to fear but fear itself!"
First Inaugural Address, 1933

H. S. Truman (33rd President) said:
"The buck stops here!"
Address at the National War College on Dec. 19, 1952

John F. Kennedy (35th President) said:
"Ask not what your country can do for you but rather what you can do for your country!"
Inaugural Address, 1961

Richard M. Nixon (37th President) said:
"I am not a crook!"
During Watergate: Nov. 17, 1973

Ronald Reagan (40th President) said:
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Speech near the Berlin Wall, 1987

Bill Clinton (42nd President) said:
"I believe when a witness is under oath..., the witness should do everything possible to answer the questions truthfully. "
Grand Jury Testimony, Aug. 17, 1998


Who said practice had to be dull?
You can save this if you want. In Notepad, go to File, then SaveAs and give it a name. It will save this file into My Documents unless you tell it to save it somewhere else.

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