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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.
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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