Christmas Break

Enjoy your Christmas Break see you in the new year!

Study Sheet: Gulliver's Travels

1. How does Swift satirize- education, family, beauty, government, justice, emotion etc.
2. What is the primary thing satirized in each civilization? 
3. How does Swift agree/disagree with the Christian perspective?
4. How does Swifts biography and geographic location impact the book?
5. Overview of Swifts life.
6. Be able to illustrate civilizations
7. Purpose of main/secondary characters
8. Descriptions of main/secondary characters
9. Story sequence chart of one civilization
10. How does Gulliver's economic situation change his perspective?
11. How does Gulliver's view of society, himself, humanity, religion etc change in the book?

Homework Due December 18th

English Literature Textbook

• Read 
• from the works of John Wesley pg.216 section A Christian's Happiness 
• read the poems pages 219-230 
• Read Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard pg 231-234 
• answer the questions on the poem
• research the poem 

Read (optional)

• Finish Reading Book 4: From Gulliver's travels  
• Otherwise I recommend you read book 4 from page 186- 194 from the English Literature textbook 

Study 

• Recommend looking over an online version of Cliffs notes to refresh your memory of the readings.
• Look for a blogpost to follow with some things to look for 

Homework Due December 11th

Read

• Read Book 4 : chapters 1-4
• Write a 2-3 sentence summery of each chapter. 
• Try to determine what Swift is satirizing in this part of his book. 
• Does Swift seem to be approaching this idea from a Christian Worldview? Why/Why not? 
• Turn this assignment in and be ready to discuss your thoughts. 
• Create a cartoon from the book. Turn in.