English 12 Homework: for this Weekend:

Read carefully the following instructions:

1. Read the paragraph by Jonathan Swift, who wrote Gulliver's Travels.

2. Read the paragraph by Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse.

3. For each writer do the following: 

* write a decent paragraph about who each author is

*when they lived

*what they cared about in their lives and in the world - and therefore what they wrote about.

*give examples and excerpts of their ideas and writings*

*why are these writers important.  

*Bring some interesting things to learn and   share with others.