Once students have written their essays the opportunity to indulge on internet research is provided. Students will examine existing web sites to create a dialogue that asks them to think about what makes a good web site. The students will compare sites to get an idea of the possible strategic choices they can make whewn they create their own web authored pages. Students will learn how communication is presented according to the type of communication provided and depending on the reciever of the information.

Standard 3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics). Standard 4. Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language (e.g., conventions, style, vocabulary) to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes. Standard 7. Students conduct research on issues and interests by generating ideas and questions, and by posing problems. They gather, evaluate, and synthesize data from a variety of sources (e.g., print and non print texts, artifacts, people) to communicate their discoveries in ways that suit their purpose and audience. Standard 11. Students participate as knowledgeable, reflective, creative, and critical members of a variety of literacy communities. Standard 12. Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g., for learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange of information).

Students must be computer literate and be able to use search engines, read and write.

Student answers must reflect serious thinking and analytical skills as pertaining to the analysis of each site. Focus on whether the site is effective at accomplishing its goal is a needed aim for students.

2- Students pair up and look through previously book marked web sites and together answer the following questions per site: 1. Is the function of this site social, Business, or educational? 2. Is the site’s function effective? Why? 3. Who is the audience that this site is aimed to? What stylistic choices on the site support your response? 4. If you were hired to make this site more effective, what changes would you make? Why? 5. All information is important. How is the information provided by this site important?

Student will be able to use a search engine, to question the decisions made by web masters and to wonder about how certain stylistic decisions are executed.