Teacher Prep Work

b) When working in my teacher group I found it somewhat difficult to get anything collectively together since not everyone fully comprehended the story. The good part is that we did come up with some good open ended questions and we found a few instances where the irony used was particularly interesting. From working in teacher groups I learned that I would never want to be a teacher, just because I wouldn't want to teach something that I really didn't understand myself. One good thing I found that came from working in teacher groups was that each of us helped the others to try and grasp the overall concept of the story and what Swift was trying to display through his words.

c) During the planning period in class we planned to continue working the same way he had started. The vision that our group had was to make the story as clean cut and simplistic as we possibly could to gain a better understanding, but not lose the affects of the irony. This will take reading the text quite a few times and pulling out the portions of text that we believe contribute to the overall irony.

a) -Is Gulliver awake or is it all a dream?
- How does Swift portray the government and its officials?
- Do you think that the tiny people were symbols? (For example, is Swift trying to show the different is social classes?
- Do you think that if the Lulliputians were not at war with others that Gulliver would have had such a lenient sentence?

I really did not have many predicions because I was still trying to comprehend the whole story. He is obviously going to travel to another land. I think this time he will travel to a land of "giants" of some sort. This prediction is solely based on a social class matter. Since there was irony with the government officials, there must also be another set of irony coming to be associated with those at the highest of powers.