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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Travel, Colonialism and Slavery

For Students 9th - 10th
From Robinson Crusoe to the anti-slavery activism of Olaudah Equiano and the letters of Ignatius Sancho: explore a range of writing produced during an age of travel, trade and colonial conquest, in which Britain vastly expanded its...
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Politics and Religion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Civil Wars and the Restoration of the monarchy, the Enlightenment or 'Age of Reason', and British colonialism: investigate the political and religious contexts of Restoration and 18th-century literature.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Rise of the Novel

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how the novel emerged as a new literary form in the 18th century and examine pioneering texts, from Oroonoko and Robinson Crusoe to Gulliver's Travels and Pamela.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: An Introduction to Gulliver's Travels

For Students 9th - 10th
Jonathan Swift initially did his best to conceal the fact that he was the author of Gulliver's Travels. This article explores how Swift constructed the work to operate as an elaborate game, parodying travel literature, pretending to be...
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 12: Gulliver's Travels

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Students continue to learn that people use the written word to express their thoughts and ideas about social issues and attempt to persuade others to do the same. They will explore advanced rhetorical devices, including satire and...
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Study Guide, Gulliver's Travels

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Five study questions to help with navigation and understanding of "Gulliver's Travels." Features topics such as: relationship between satire and conceptions of ideal society.
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eBook
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: Gulliver's Travels

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Gulliver's Travels

For Students 9th - 10th
Published in 1725, Gulliver's Travels continues to delight readers to this day. Read about the satire in the novel, the characters and quotations in this fascinating site.
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eBook
University of Adelaide

University of Adelaide: Gulliver's Travels

For Students 9th - 10th
An electronic version of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.