1. Review: Introduction: Reading doesn’t mean understanding
2. Review Warm up: Create an image of the rulers/leaders of the restoration through the
following: History; Samuel Pepys Diary; Journal of the Plague Year; Rape of the Lock, and A
Modest Proposal. Consider their character, attitude, and sensitivities.
3. Advance 1: Apply the image above to the current time and the government leaders/business
leaders/trend setters of our time now.
4. Advance 2: Integrate leadership views from the source of the writers and from your and your
classmates knowledge of the current world. Examine for similarities and differences.
5. Advance 3: Separate the stories from the message in the warm up list. Be able to answer the
question for each story, “What’s the author’s point?”
6. Evaluating Media: Gulliver’s Travels in book and video
7. We will watch the movie in segments. Breaks will be given for students to work individually or
in groups. Students will take notes and look for the following things in the movie:
a. Suspension of unbelief: camera angles, actor interactions, sound, anything that sells the
fantasy or makes it believable
b. Elements of transition from book to movie: same/different
c. Characteristics of any of the characters and what that might mean to fulfilling Swift’s
purpose
d. How the story integrates (compares/contrasts) with other insights we’ve gained from
earlier
discussions and the other stories we’ve read so far.
8. Students will be prepared to discuss their findings with the class and turn in their notes. They
may be required to write a detailed essay if they are unable to carry on an active discussion.
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