Friday, March 20, 2009

Jonathan Swift Teacher Prep Work

a)    For our small teacher group my group and I had one main question focusing our whole lesson.  Our main question was, from the human interactions between Gulliver and he Lilliputians what is the author trying to teach us?  We focused our lesson from there on about human instinct.  Of course will never know the exact answers to our question or know exactly why this story was write but as a group we feel it teaches the lesson “think before you act”.  When Gulliver first meet the Lilliputians and they attacked him and tied him down, Gulliver could have easily broke free, being that he was much larger then the people of Lilliput.  Instead he thought about the reproductions of his actions and he decided to show them respect.  By showing them respect he not only gained his freedom but he was given the royal treatment by the Lilliputians, it was as if he were their king.

I was unable to respond to part b and c of this post because I was out for the rest of that week.  

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