Gulliver's Travels

a.) Question 1: Why did Gulliver fall asleep on the ground of an unknown land?
- I chose this question because if I was the teacher I would want my students to come up with different answers as to why they thought Gulliver fell asleep on the ground. It would be interesting to hear other people's opinions and ideas.

Question 2: Why did the Lilliputians tie down and peg Gulliver to the ground when they found him asleep?
- This question could help students come up with various tactics the Lilliputians might have thought about and actually did when they saw Gulliver. Students could question if it was a strategy or if the Lilliputians were just afraid of the unknown.

Question 3: When Gulliver woke up why didn't he use his strength and size to untie himself?
- When discussing this question students could questions both Gulliver's mind and size. Was he strategically laying on the ground? Was he honestly scared to get up?

b.) This week while doing prep work for my teacher group I was sort of unsure what to write about to discuss next week. As I read the story anything I was confused or had opinions about I wrote down. Some of those thoughts later became my questions. This helped me out because as a student I was unsure of some answers so I figured I wasn't the only one. Next week when discussing Gulliver's Travels maybe other student's will add on to my ideas and make the discussion better. Later in the week when we made our student groups Kelsey and I worked together. Working with someone else was a big help because things I was unsure of she had ideas about. It cleared up any problems I was unsure about and helped make the prep work much easier to get done.

c.) On Monday when presenting the work to another teacher group my plan is to start with the questions. If the other group has something to say I will definitely consider that and I think it will make the discussion better in general. If the other group doesn't like what my group has to say or doesn't agree with us I plan to ask for their input and take suggestions on how we can make our presentation better. Overall I hope the presentation goes the way I've planned, but if it doesn't I will fix it. I won't just stop trying to teach or show the other teacher group our presentation. Instead I will refer to the book and possibly ask them to share their prep work with us so we can compare questions and ideas.