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Writing Prompt

How Would Life Be Different if We Still Used Dial-Up Internet?

Theme Technology
Grades 6-8

In the Classroom Writing Prompts

Introduction

Connecting, connecting, connection failed, try again! If you rewind a little over twenty years ago, dial-up internet was the service used to “go online”. Jump into a writing activity where you explore the way using the internet “used to be” and how your life would be different today without wireless internet.

Learning Objectives

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.3

WALT use the writing process to create an essay about life with dial-up internet and how it would be different.

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