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Today’s Agenda

Today’s Agenda. Collect Questionnaires that are ready Mention Homework for next class. Distribute Handouts. Questions about the syllabus or course? Any problems with the website? “Pair-Share” Activity on the Writing Sample. List words & phrases that describe Gulliver

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Today’s Agenda

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  1. Today’s Agenda • Collect Questionnaires that are ready • Mention Homework for next class. Distribute Handouts. • Questions about the syllabus or course? • Any problems with the website? • “Pair-Share” Activity on the Writing Sample. • List words & phrases that describe Gulliver • Go over passages on 2345-47 and 2370. • Discuss “The Lady’s Dressing Room” 2589-93 • What examples of specific evidence does it include? • If time, provide context for Swift. (PowerPoint) • Literary, intellectual, economic, political, religious, biographical.

  2. “Pair-Share” Activity on the Writing Sample. • List words & phrases that describe Gulliver • What do we learn about Gulliver? • What do we learn about ourselves via satire (by the implied social critique) • Go over passages on 2345-47 and 2370. • What are the “two evils” (2345)? • What might Swift be criticizing, making fun of, or warning us from doing? • For 2370: What is Swift suggesting about beauty? • Discuss “The Lady’s Dressing Room” 2589-93 • What is the main point? Who is the target of criticism? • What examples of specific evidence does it include?

  3. Homework for next class • Read Gulliver’s Travels: Part 4, Chapters 1-4 (pp. 2418-31).

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