Write each of these explorations on the board. Assign students to try each and write a few sentences telling what happens after each action.
Exploration #1: Click on a photo. What happens?
- Exploration #2: Click on the most interesting headline you see. Write the headline and tell why it's interesting and what happened when you clicked on it.
- Exploration #3: Click on an article. What happens? Does this make it easier or harder to read the story?
- Students will discover that when they click on a story they have the option of looking it is just as it appears in the newspaper, only larger, or they can view it as text only. They can make the fonts larger if they choose. They may even be able to copy the text and paste it into a Word document so it can be translated into another language!
It's True!IT'S TRUE: Thomas Jefferson said, "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter. And by that I mean that every man should have one and be capable of reading it."
He also said, "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers." And, he said, "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it." These statements appear contradictory. What do your students think they mean? Allow time for them to research the context in which each quotation was used. They can write essays explaining Jefferson's views about newspapers.
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TipTIP: The newspaper generates a great deal of excitement and enthusiasm among students. You want to capitalize on that but you don't want newspapers to distract their attention while you deliver instructions. That's why this discussion lesson begins before newspaper distribution. For future lessons, consider giving instructions before you distribute newspapers.
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