Travel

Procedures

Adaptations

Discussion Questions

Evaluation

You may evaluate each student's poster using the following three-point rubric:

Three points: complete information as specified in the Procedures section; no errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics

One point: some information as specified in Procedures; many errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics

You can ask your students to contribute to the assessment rubric by determining criteria for clarity and readability of posters.

Extensions

Swift in the Twenty-first Century

What would Swift think of life in this century? As a class project, have students compile a list of twenty-first-century developments that might be targets of the writer's satire if Swift were alive today. Each student can choose one of the developments on the list and write a satirical essay or story about it. Before students start on this writing project, review the features of satire, and decide on a suitable length for the essays and stories.