Some questions that I thought was Relavant!
1. Why does swift use Irony to get his point across about how he feels about the Lilliput leaders?
2. Why do you think that the people of Lilliput tied Gulliever down?
3. What does the height difference of Gulliever represent?
4. From reading what Swift writes about his society what connections we make to the society in which we live today?
Some of the moments that I found to discuss with the class is the size in which they portrayed Guilliver as being verses the size of the Lilliput officials/people. I think that it's of great importance to the txt and to what they were trying to represent.
Many students would find the txt difficult because of the language that the txt uses. I think a great way to help students understand more of the txt is to look at the vocabulary and define the meaning of the words than use and read the definition tom understand the passage. Ex: "lifting up his hands and eyes by way of admiration, cried out in a shrill, but distinct voice, Hekinah degul." The definition of Hekinah degul is a represintation of Pig latin meaning non-sense words! So as we see the definition can difine the whole sentence or paragraph.I leaned much from my small Student teacher group it really helped me to appreaciate the value of others thoughts and reasonings on difficult text as this. I also learned how to disscuss the relivance of the txt in contrasting my thoughts with the society in which we live today.
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