This study guide is designed to help you prepare for a discussion potentially leading to postting a response on the Utopian Visons Forum. You should follow the outline below and use the other students in this class to help you think about and write a commentary that will earn bonus points.
1. (5 minutes)
Write out a question about Gulliver's Travels that you think
would produce a good discussion and be
good question to answer in writing a commentary. Think about the relationship between satire and
conceptions of the ideal society, and about Swift's motives in writing Gulliver's Travels.
2. (5 minutes)
Write one sentence explaining why you think your question would help
us to understand what Gulliver's Travels reveals about human dreams
of perfection.
3. (15 minutes)
Introduce yourself to the students in your group and share your
questions and explanations with the rest of the group. Spend a bit of
time talking with each other about each of the questions to see where they
lead you.
4. (10 minutes)
Select questions you would like to have the instructor discuss that
you think might produce good discussion and interesting commentaries.
Then discuss that question with each other. You should make a few notes
on a separate sheet about what you say to each other.
5. (5 minutes)
Turn in this sheet with your groups question(s) and the names of the
rest of your group written in the spaces provided.
OUR QUESTION IS:
The members of group #_______were:
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