Poetry and Social Change

I agree with the writer's of the textbook that Blake's poetry could enact social change by appealing to the imagination of the reader. I agree with them because when a person imagines thing it takes their mind to a whole different world, most of the time how they wish something was. So, in this case they could imagine how they would want the world to change socially. The Parliament transcript affected my reading of Blake's work by giving me another way to look at his poetry, to see past the imaginary world and to see how the world really could be.

Gulliver's Travel

Questions I would ask in my teacher group is how would you act in this situation, would you be rebellious or go with the flow and would you feel threatened by the Lilliputians being that there was so many of them. 

I feel that me and my group members (Robert N. and Alisha) work very well together. We would try to critique each others questions to make them more to be asked to a student. Also, the teacher groups are helpful to understand the story and what everyone thinks about it, you get to look at it in another point of view. Which also gives you a better understanding because maybe they thought something that you didn't. So all in all my teacher group meeting went well. 

My group hasnt came up with a way to teach but we will work on that on monday we've only came up with questions to ask so far.

Orwell post

The poem that Orwell wrote says that he might not come home. At the time of when he wrote that i think that was going through his head. I read the poem before i actually read "why i write" so i didn't know much about the background of the poem except for some of the images he left me with while reading the poem. I also felt that he didn't want to dream because he knew them dreams could not come true. His poem seems poem and book seems to me that he has a lot of political beliefs and expresses them in different ways than most.