- SCROLL DOWN to PREVIEW EACH PAGE before reading and to find page-turning links!
(Did you notice yet? Commercial Websites have, well, commercials on top, so scroll down
below the ads to find the content; these "Literature
Online" websites have headings, so you still have to scroll down to find the
content.)
- GETTING AROUND IN THIS LESSON:
The first time you use this lesson, you should go through page by page by using the
"Next Page" link (the B-17 flying to the right) near the bottom of each
instructional page. USE THE
"Site Map" TO GET TO SPECIFIC PAGES. Your browser's "Back" button or the "Go"
(or "History") word in your browser's menu should help you return to any page
you've visited since opening your browser--well, the last 10 or so, anyway. The
"Previous Page" link near the bottom of the page (the B-17 flying to the left)
should take you one page back in this module.
- HOLD YOUR MOUSE POINTER ON A
PICTURE to see if a note pops up in a
temporary white box. For example, the note "Click this B-17 to read the
poem" is supposed to be attached to each of the photos in the upper right corner of
the pages in this module. (For beginners: If the note doesn't stay visible long
enough, slide you mouse back and forth to make the pointer cross and re-cross the image.
The note should appear and re-appear; on slower or busier machines, though, there
may be as much as a couple of seconds lag time before the note pops up. You can practice
at the top of this page--and on the page turning photos at the bottom of each page, like
this page.)
- THE B-17 IN MIDAIR: The airplane
picture on each instructional page is a shortcut to the poem. When you click on the
airplane, another browser opens up--just click on one of the buttons in the top right
corner to get it out of your way. (-- means shrink it to a button, x = exit this
extra browser, double-page = "tile" = resize the browser window.)
- A BALL TURRET: The airplane
picture is on each page so you can see the tiny bubble on the bottom of the plane.
The speaker in the poem fights the war from that little bubble. For a better view,
- Advanced: USING
YOUR WEB BROWSER IN THIS LESSON: Click here to go to the
glossary page, click on the airplane photo on that page, and click on the "tile"
button in the top right corner of that page--it's the one with the overlapping page icon.
Then you can use your mouse to size and align the window with the poem in it right next to
the glossary items that explain many of the words in the poem.
- Keeping the Poem Handy: You
can click the small airplane on any page to see the poem; click the minimize button near
the upper right corner of the browser (a minus sign in Windows 95 and 98, a point-down
triangle in Windows 3.1 and 3.11) to shrink the page speedily if you want to view the poem
again later. To see the poem again, just
click on its button at the bottom of your screen. (Opening a closed window can be done in
Windows 3.1 [and in Windows 95 or 98] by holding down one of the <Alt> keys and
tapping the <Tab> key until you see the name of the window you want to open; then
remove your hand from the keyboard and it opens. If the screen starts flashing,
you're probably holding down the <Tab> key in addition to the <Ctrl> key. Tap
<Tab>; don't hold it--not ever.)
- GRAY CLOUDS in the background mean
you're still at this site; if the clouds disappear, you're at another site--and if your
"Back" button isn't active another copy of your browser has opened (check the
status line of your Windows 95 screen to see what's open on your computer at the
moment--often the bottom of your screen next to your "Start" button. Usually,
the recessed button is the open application).
- PREVIEWING LINKS: If your
browser fills your screen, you can hold your mouse arrow over a link and see the link's
"address" near the bottom of your browser (in an area called the "status
bar"--No, that's not a place for upscale executives to try those drinks with
umbrellas in them). Sometimes you can tell from the link address if you want to go
to that page or not.
- EXTERNAL LINKS: All references to
external (http://) sources will open in an extra browser so you can look around at the
site without losing your place in this lesson. Use the icons in the top right corner of
your browser to minimize, tile, or close this extra browser. References to other pages in
this lesson, like the glossary (#), will open in this same browser so you can click your
browser's "Back" button to return or the page turner at the bottom of the new
page.
- WEB BROWSERS and WORD PROCESSORS: In most modules, you will be asked
to answer questions for yourself or for a teacher. On the Site Map or the first page where
a writing task occurs, you can open a file with the questions already typed out for you
and type your responses in your computer's word processor as you work through the
module. If you
aren't sure what word processor is on the computer you are using--or if clicking the link
doesn't cause a word processor to open in a few seconds, click on the link for the Generic
Word Processor. Generic will open the file in your Internet browser, so click on
"File" and then "Save As" and select a place on your computer or
diskette to save the file; remember where you put it because you have to find it to type
into it or to print it. To use a .txt (generic) file, click on "Start" then
"Programs" then "Accessories" and select either WordPad or NotePad.
Forums: Some sets of questions have been gathered into online forums at the
Litonline site so that answers can be posted for anyone to read. If a question is part of
a forum, the writing task title will be a hotlink (turn into a hand when you move your
mouse cursor onto it). Either click on the title above the keyboard photo to access
a forum, enter the forum, and scroll down to this question, or open the word processed
file of questions you started on an earlier page--or from the Site Map.
Use your browser's "Back" button to return to the "Understanding
Poetry" module from the generic.txt file of questions.
| How to Re-Open a Word
Processor: Once you save the file to
your computer (or to your diskette, if you're using someone else's computer or a college's
lab computer), you can minimize or close your word processor. DON'T return to the Site Map
or to the first page where a writing task occurs to click the link each time you are asked
to write something or you'll end up with multiple copies of the questions but with only
one answer per file. Instead, maximize or reopen your word processor and open the
copy of the question file that you saved. (If you don't change the name on saving,
the file will be called "PoemQues" or "ham-ques" or
"Oed-ques," or something like that.) If you
aren't familiar with the computer you are using (or any computer), look at the list of
open applications next to (or under) the "Start" button. (It's a Windows thing,
not part of your Internet browser.) If you see an aqua W or a little icon that looks like
a notebook, click on it and the word processor and file of questions should re-open.
If no word processor is open already, click on "Start" in the corner
of your screen (probably bottom, left); then click on "Programs." If you
think you were using Word to use the .doc or .rtf form of the question file, look down the
list of program applications for an aqua W and click on it. Once it's open, click on
"File" and see if the file name (probably "Poemques" unless you
changed it) is listed near the bottom of the menu that pops up. If so, click on it
to open it.
If you think you were using WordPad (white page icon) or NotePad (aqua notebook
icon) to use the .txt form of the question file, after clicking on "Start" and
"Programs," click on "Accessories" and open either. WordPad
keeps a list of recently used files, so you can click on "File" and look for the
filename at the bottom of the popup menu. |
- Memory Overload Warning,
(especially for older computers): If you keep too many programs open at one time and
have 16Mb of RAM or less, your computer might "freeze" and you'd have to
"reboot" it and find your way to where you left off in this lesson (the
"Site Map" can help). Sometimes warnings pop up before your operating memory
gets overloaded. So keep the lesson and the poem open, maybe with a word processor to take
notes (save after each note), but don't keep every external link open.
* If you're not at your own computer, you might
open an emailer at the computer you are using (for instance, if your college provides
email accounts for students and you're studying in a college lab because their computers
are 10 times faster than the one you've got at home) to collect your preliminary notes and
email them to your usual email address. |
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