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Worksheet
Curated OER

Gulliver's Travels Discussion Questions

For Students 9th - 12th
Good discussion questions are hard to find and even harder to craft. If you're looking for questions that will stimulate in-depth discussions for all four books in of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, check out this resource.
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Lesson Plan
Penguin Books

Gulliver's Travels Teacher's Notes

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Who are "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth”? Readers of Gulliver’s Travels will learn the answer, as the journey with Lemuel Gulliver to Lilliput,...
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Unit Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Gulliver’s Travels

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Gulliver's Travels tells the story of a man who goes on voyages and encounters strange people. A unit plan introduces readers to the classic text, as well as excerpts from other examples of sarcasm and satire, such as "A Modest Proposal"...
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Interactive
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Gulliver's Travels Quiz

For Students 8th - 12th
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions about Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Writing
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Gulliver's Travels Study Help Essay Questions

For Students 8th - 12th
In this literature activity, students respond to 3 short answer and essay questions about Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Students may also link to an online interactive quiz on the novel at the bottom of the page.
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Activity
Penguin Books

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Engage readers of Gulliver’s Travels with a series of worksheets that include pre-reading activities, vocabulary exercises, comprehension questions, and close reading checks. Designed for younger learners, the focus of the packet is on...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Exploring Satire - Jonathan Swift

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study about satire and find examples Part One of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. They then write an essay about the examples they found and how the writer used satire in his literary work.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Exploring Satire - Jonathan Swift

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore satire. In this literature lesson, students read Part One of Gulliver's Travels. Students then write an essay explaining how Jonathan Swift used satire in his writing.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Comparison and Contrast - D. H. Lawrence

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Read The Horse Dealer's Daughter and The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence, then write an essay comparing and contrasting the two stories. Learners choose some aspect to write about, such as themes, characters, setting, or plot.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Understanding Flashback

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars are introduced to the definition of "flashback" in that writers use it when they want to reveal to readers something that happened in the past. Then Students write a short story using a flashback scene and then move back...
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, a prose satire by this Irish writer and clergyman that is both a satire on human nature and the "travelers' tales" literary subgenre.
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Website
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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Unit Plan
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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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Restoration and Eighteenth Century: Jonathan Swift

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Jonathan Swift and his use of satire and irony. It features links to Swift's biography, "A Voyage to Lilliput" and "A Voyage to Brobdingnag" texts from Gulliver's Travels, and a handout with questions about the...
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Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Jonathan Swift

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers links to a biography of Jonathan Swift and to the full text of his novel Gulliver's Travels.
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Activity
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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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Literature & Composition: Satire and Humor

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This unit focuses on satire and humor; it defines satire as a literary device used to expose follies, vices, and hypocrites to bring about change. It includes links to Gullivers Travels and Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, "The Rape of...
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Website
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Satire and Humour

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discover how writers of the 17th and 18th centuries used satire and humour to address issues around politics and power, inequality and class, gender and marriage - as well as to entertain readers and audiences.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: From Dr. Seuss to Jonathan Swift

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for three lessons that use Dr. Seuss?s "The Butter Battle Book" to introduce satire in Jonathan Swift?s "Gulliver?s Travels." In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts...
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Website
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.