a) Questions I asked:
1) How do we know this is all really happening, could it just be a dream? I asked this question because I was wondering if this could be just a dream. They say that the man woke up, but maybe he just woke up in his dream. I figured that other people who read this might have the same question and it would be something good to discuss.
2) Who really is the normal human in this story? How do we know the man isn’t just a giant and everyone else is normal sized? I asked this question because everyone has a different point of view on things and when I read the story I took it as he might be a giant. So I thought this would be another good discussion question on how point of view effect’s a story.
3) Why didn’t the man fight back when the people had him tied up if he was so much bigger then them? Would it just be easier to go along with being a hostage basically? I asked this question because I thought it was interesting how he didn’t fight at all and just went along with the people and there ways even though he was so much bigger then them. I also thought this would be something good to discuss about fighting over going with the flow.
4) How come the little people are so closed minded as to believe that the man isn’t real, that he “dropped from the moon”? I picked this question because I think it relates to what Pope was talking about when he talks about the limitation to the mind and believing things that are outside the normal. This would be another good discussion question.
Significant Parts: One significant part I thought was this: “For as to what we have heard you affirm, that there are other kingdoms and states in the world inhabited by human creatures as large as yourself, our philosophers are in much doubt, and would rather conjecture that you dropped from the moon, or one of the stars;”
I thought this was an important part because the little people talk about how it is impossible for there to be people as big as him. I think this relates to how Pope says that people are limited of the mind because they are saying that it’s impossible for him to be real, when they really they don’t know what can really be out there and they are being really close minded.
Predictions: I really didn’t have any predictions that I thought people would have a hard time understanding. I think this was a very easy story to understand. The only thing I would clarify would be why the man did not fight against people that were so much more tiny than he was.
b) and c)Reflective Journal:
I really liked working in the teacher groups. By putting all of our thoughts together about the story, it really helps to think more outside of just my own thinking. It helped me to get more than one prospective out of the book which helped me understand the story better on a deeper level. What one of us didn’t catch about the story, the other person did. It gave us a chance to really look at the story at a very well rounded perspective. I don’t really have anything bad to say about working in these teacher groups. It gives us a chance to work together and hear the perspective of our peers. Like for instance, I didn’t even realize that this could all be a dream until someone in my group brought it to my attention. This brought up another question for me to ask my self about the reality of this story. All in all I really enjoy these teacher groups and I think we should do more group work like this.
I believe the way my group has approached are teaching method is very good. We plan to have different discussion points to focus on that stood out to us in the story. Then, we also have some questions that we will answer that we thought would clarify the story more clearly. All in all, my group has a very well organized way to teach the class about this story. I think we will do very well.
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