<p>Moon’s Day, March 10: Reason Comes Home EQ: What point is Swift making in Gulliver’s return to London?</p><p> Welcome! Gather pen/cil, paper, wits!</p><p> Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels: Epilogue o Students read the end of the tale, answer questions, and write reflections</p><p> Spring Project Proposals OVERDUE! Notebooks and Reading Journals due THURSDAY! </p><p>ELACC12RL-RI2: Analyze two or more themes or central ideas of text ELACC12RI3: Analyze and explain how individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop ELACC12RL6: Distinguish what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant ELACC12RI6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text ELACC12RI8: Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in seminal British texts ELACC12RL-RI9: Analyze for theme, purpose rhetoric, and how texts treat similar themes or topics ELACC12RL10: Read and comprehend complex literature independently and proficiently. ELACC12W4: Produce clear and coherent writing appropriate to task, purpose, and audience ELACC12W9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis ELACC12W10: Write routinely over extended and shorter time frames ELACC12SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions ELACC12L6: Acquire and use general academic and domain-specific words and phrases Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (1726) Adapted and edited; full text widely available</p><p>Epilogue</p><p>[Gulliver tells the reader that his return was difficult, since he could not stand Yahoos, and got beaten up trying to free horses from carriages. He says that some English Yahoos told him to tell tell the government about these lands so that they could be claimed for the Empire. But he doubts Lilliput would be worth conquering, or that England could conquer Brobdingnag or Laputa. He admits that the Houyhnhnms have neither knowledge nor equipment of war; but ] Their prudence, unanimity, unacquaintedness with fear, and love of country, would amply supply all defects in the military art. Imagine twenty thousand of them breaking into the midst of an European army, overturning the carriages, battering the warriors' faces into mummy by terrible yerks from their hinder hoofs …. I rather wish [Houyhnhnms would] send a sufficient number of their inhabitants for civilizing Europe, by teaching us the first principles of honour, justice, truth, temperance, public spirit, fortitude, chastity, friendship, benevolence, and fidelity….</p><p>[He had also moral objection, knowing what happens when Europeans “discover” a country:] A crew of pirates are driven by a storm they know not whither; at length a boy discovers land from the topmast; they go on shore to rob and plunder, they see a harmless people, are entertained with kindness; they give the country a new name; they take formal possession of it for their king; they set up a rotten plank, or a stone, for a memorial; they murder two or three dozen of the natives, bring away a couple more, by force, for a sample; return home, and get their pardon. Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right. Ships are sent with the first opportunity; the natives driven out or destroyed; their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants: and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people! </p><p>[So now, he says, he tries to live as best he can, trying to get used to Yahoos.]</p><p>I began last week to permit my wife to sit at dinner with me, at the farthest end of a long table; and to answer (with the utmost brevity) the few questions I asked her. Yet, the smell of a Yahoo continuing very offensive, I always keep my nose well stopped with rue, lavender, or tobacco leaves….My reconcilement to the Yahoo kind in general might not be so difficult, if they would be content with those vices and follies only which nature has entitled them to. I am not in the least provoked at the sight of a lawyer, a pickpocket, a colonel, a fool, a lord, a politician, a whoremonger, a physician, a traitor, or the like; this is all according to the due course of things: but when I behold a lump of deformity and diseases, both in body and mind, smitten with pride, it immediately breaks all the measures of my patience; neither shall I be ever able to comprehend how such an animal, and such a vice, could tally together. … The Houyhnhnms, who live under the government of reason, are no more proud of the good qualities they possess, than I should be for not wanting a leg or an arm; which no man in his wits would boast of, although he must be miserable without them. I dwell the longer upon this subject from the desire I have to make the society of an English Yahoo by any means not insupportable; and therefore I here entreat those who have any tincture of this absurd vice, that they will not presume to come in my sight. Reading Guide: Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels Epilogue</p><p>1. Gulliver tells us that, on his return to England, he did what that got him beaten up?</p><p>2. What do some “English Yahoos” tell Gulliver he should tell the government about, and why?</p><p>3. Gulliver admits that the Houyhnhnms know nothing about ______, but imagines that, </p><p> against European warriors, Houyhnhnms would “______the warriors’ ______into </p><p>______by terrible ______from their hinder ______.”</p><p>4. “I rather wish,” he says, that the Houyhnhnms would do what?</p><p>5. Briefly summarize Gulliver’s account of what happens when Europeans “discover” a country, and </p><p> comment on the passage’s tone.</p><p>6. Where does Gulliver make his wife sit at dinner, and why?</p><p>7. What does Gulliver put into his nose, and why?</p><p>8. He describes humans – “Yahoos” – as “a ______of ______and </p><p>______, both in body and mind, smitten with ______.”</p><p>9. He hates this “absurd vice” so much that he orders any who have it not to do what?</p><p>Reading Journal Entry: Look back at 6 and 7: Why can’t Gulliver escape that smell? </p>