Gulliver's Travels

A] 1. Why do the lilliputians capture Gulliver and pin him to the ground?
- I feel as if this would be a general question a class may want to know. They capture him and pin him down because they are confused on who he is. They aren't aware if he will try to hurt them. Also, the fact that he is so big scares them.
2. Despite the size of the lilliputions, why didn't Gulliver react to their attack?
- I think that Gulliver was just as confused as the lilliputions were when they saw eachother. The fact that there were so many of them may have scared him away from reacting. He probably wasn't aware of what they could do to him, even being as small as they were.
3.Why was Gulliver asleep on this ground in the first place?
- This question generates ideas that a class may have. It can be opened up to a broad discussion about why he may be sleeping there in the first place. If this is such an unknown land to him, then why would he be there? It develops ideas to talk about in a class and teaching discussion.
4.Why didn't the lilliputians instantly kill Gulliver when they first saw him?
- I think maybe because they were curious about him. Considering they were all so small, they had never seen someone as big as him. However, how were they sure that he wouldn't hurt them as soon as he awoke? This question also develops a broad classroom discussion.
5. Why do they have the lilliputians speak another language, and why don't they explain the meaning right after?
-I think they have them speak another language to tell the difference between them and Gulliver. They might not translate it right away because they want the reader to continue reading and figure out the meaning from the surrounding words. It keeps the reader interested and involved in the reading.

B] The story didn't make much sense to me when I began to read it, but I wrote down any questions I had as I went on. It started to make more sense as it got to the end, so most of my questions were answered. By working with Christina and making the teaching chart, it helped me to learn how to teach a class. By writing down both of our thoughts, opinions and questions, it made it easier on both of us to understand the story. Obviously, neither of us are teachers, but we taught eachother by using our own thoughts and questions. This prepared us for our lesson to teach the class this week.

C] When we prepared our lesson, we started by writing questions that we think the class will have. When we teach the other group we are assigned to we will use those questions we prepared, but open it up to a broad discussion and allow the students to share their thoughts and ideas. If the disagree with something we have written down, we will allow them to share what they are thinking so that it is easier for them to learn more. Hopefully the presentation leaves the students with a sense of what we learned from the story. We will ask them to give their personal input, whether it be an idea, or even a different way to bring the topic about. We hope to teach these students as much as we learned preparing it.