Dear Abby From Pat Mitchell, a business education teacher at Fort Atkinson High School in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin: "Once my keyboarding students begin composing, there is no stopping them! An activity which takes them out of the textbook involves writing a letter to Dear Abby regarding a question or problem they have. Instead o using their names, students sing the letter with appropriate nicknames like 'Upset and Unhappy' or 'Please Help' and their letters are given a number when they are handed in for grading, to protect their anonymity. After a week or so the letters are handed out for another composition session. This time studetns become Dear abby and aswer a letter written by one of their peers. If there is more than one keyboarding class, this works even better a students won't know who answered their letter. The number assigned will help in getting the letter back to its originator."