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Although slightly more cumbersome and without as much flexibility, this unit can be taught in a situation where internet access is unavailable. The teacher is required, however, to gather the appropriate materials from the internet and prepare sufficient paper copies for use by the students. A few shortcuts make this task easier:
1. The literature selections used in this unit are available on the internet and can be downloaded and printed for classroom use. Although none of the three selections is overly long, the teacher can further save time and paper by printing only small sets and requiring students either to share them after reading or report to a larger group that was assigned one of the other selections.
2. The Pre-Activity emphasizes how internet advertising is different from print. Nevertheless, students should be able to think critically about the nature of all forms of advertising, especially that which is directed at them. Should the teacher feel that this activity cannot be easily translated to paper, then a similar exercise drawing on magazines familiar to students would be an appropriate substitute.
3. In the "Using the Documents" activity, multiple documents are drawn from each of the featured collections. The teacher may decide instead to copy and distribute only a selection of documents to use in class. (The print quality of most of the documents is surprisingly good.) Selecting only a few of the documents would also require limiting student choice about which documents they use in their "Response journal."
4. For "Illustrating the story," the teacher can print a selection of photographs for which the students can choose captions. (Color photographs like those in
The Northern Great Plains collection print nicely and can be inserted in plastic sleeves before being used in class.)
5. "My scrapbook" can be created in a traditional paper-and-paste format.