Jonathan Swift Teacher Prep Work

Questions: Why is there a time lapse in between when Gulliver is captured and when he makes an alliance with the Lilliputian leader? Do the petty wars the Lilliputians get into amongst themselves symbolize something in society? Why does Gulliver feel compelled to protect his captors?
Predictions: I could have possibly misread Swift's text and thought there was a gap in the chronology of it. Also, the Lilliputians can themselves symbolize many different types of people, for instance, Proletariats.

The group work this week had pros and cons for me. I liked that my group members gave me a different approach to interpreting the text and they also pointed out things that I missed. However, when it came time to create our chart, there was some dissension in the group as to what to write exactly. I would only change the guidelines- next time, make it clearer for what we are supposed to teach and what goes on our charts. I learned, however, that there are many different ways to present a lesson to a class and still make it learnable.

As of yet, my group hasn't figured out exactly how we will present out lesson to the class. From our conversations, though, I think we will ask the class specific questions, like the ones listed above, and see if our predictions are close.