Inform not Amuse - Group Work on Gulliver's Travels and Satire - Revised 2011

Submitted by scotese on Fri, 2009-04-17 14:19
Teaching Level: 
High School

Gulliver and the LilliputiansI have revised the older version of this group work to include issues such as The New Yorker cover that came out in the summer of 2009 on the Obamas that created such a furious outcry and controversy.  It is always easy to laugh at satire, including Gulliver's Travels and "A Modest Proposal" but when it comes closer to our own lives - people are often offended instead of amused.  There are two handouts in addition to the main Group Work - that have two other controversial cases of satire -

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