Johnathon Swift

A.) Questions -
What is the significance of the language barrier between Gulliver and the Lilliputians?
Is Gulliver a giant among normal people? Or are the lilliputians dwarfs among Gulliver?
Who has the right to say what normality truly is?
Is Gulliver truly awake, is this all simply a dream?

Excerpt- Pg 555

"I confess I was often tempted, while they were passing backward and forward on my body, to seize forty or fifty of the first that came in my reach, and dash them against the ground. But the remembrance of what I had felt, which probably might not be the worst they could do, and the promise of honor I made them, for so I interpreted my submissive behavior, soon drove out those imaginations. Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the laws of hospitality to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence."

-This quote holds importance because it shows that Gulliver thought he had opportunity's
to defeat these people simply because of his size. Also, because he felt he was smarter than the Lillputians.

B.) Working In Groups-
I feel that the small teacher groups were very effective. I felt much more comfortable with working with a smaller group rather than in front of the whole class, but I still got the conflicting opinions of other people which helped me to see the text in a different view. It helped me to see several aspects of the text that I had not really thought about. Such as, was Gulliver really experiencing this, or was he still asleep in the meadow?


C.) Ways Of Teaching-
My group and I have decided to break up how we will teach the text. Through discussion questions first, and then clarification questions. The discussion questions will allow others to listen to our opinion as a group and give theirs as well. The clarification questions are questions that we had about the text, and felt that others may have had and what answers we came up with.