Gulliver's Travels (Novel Study Guide)

Go on a journey of self-discovery while traveling to mysterious lands.

This unit study really helps with comprehension and vocabulary. Put events in the order as they happen when Gulliver stays with the Lilliputians. Compare the land of “giants” with your own neighborhood. Predict what Gulliver’s next land will be like. Determine what the animal-like creatures find shocking about Gulliver’s world. Conduct an interview with one of the leaders from the countries Gulliver visits. Poll your peers on their favorite countries in the novel and display the results in a graph. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, our worksheets incorporate a variety of scaffolding strategies along with additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key.

About the Novel:
Gulliver’s Travels follows the many journeys Gulliver takes to different and strange lands. Gulliver is an English surgeon who is bored of life in England. He yearns to embark on the ocean and explore new places. During his travels, Gulliver finds himself in four strange lands. The first is a land of very small people. So small, that Gulliver appears a giant to them. The second land is that of giants, where Gulliver is the one who is small. Here, he is kept as a pet and faces dangers from everyday things. The third land everyone is the same size, but the land is a floating island. The ruler of this land threatens those living on the ground by landing his island on them. Finally, the fourth land is inhabited by a race of horse-like creatures. In this land, the horses are civilized and the human-like creatures are wild. It is in this final land that Gulliver finds his kindred spirits, not wishing to leave.