Good discussion questions are hard to find and even harder to craft. If you're looking for questions that will stimulate in-depth discussions for all four books in of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, check out this resource.

Concepts

gulliver's travels, jonathan swift, satire, character foil, realism

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Assign the questions as homework and then have readers share and discuss their responses in groups before a whole class discussion
• Have groups research and report on who and what Swift is satirizing

Classroom Considerations

• Includes recall, interpretative, and evaluative questions
• Presumes class members have previously studied satire

Pros

• The questions lead readers to consider the philosophical and satirical elements in the novel

Cons

• None