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ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE
Agenda Writing Prompt
Please pick up a lit book
Writing prompt-Have lit. texts out to be checked.
Finish Dante Introduction if we didn’t Friday
Read brief selections from Dante’s Inferno in the literature text.
If someone were a bad or evil person, what happens when they die? What is it like for them?
If someone were a good and righteous or enlightened person, what happens when they die? What is it like for them?
DANTE’S INFERNO Told in 10 minutes
TAKE OUT PAPER FOR AN ASSIGNMENT
Read page 656 Why did Dante write in Italian? What is the importance of numbers in Dante’s
Divine comedy? Why is Beatrice important to Dante and his
work?
Read page 657 (section on allegory and imagery) What is allegory? Can you think of an example of allegory? What is imagery and how can you interpret an
image?
http://donaldsweblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/oh-angst.html
The Forest, Illustration by Gustav Dore
ON YOUR PAPER Make a chart that looks like this
Canto I: Pages 659-661 Canto III: Pages 665-666, line 10 Canto V: Pages 675-detail, object, person, etc
symbolic equivalent
Dark Wood Sin
GROUPS OF 2-4 I will assign you either Canto V or XXXIV
You need to fill out the allegory/symbolism chart for your canto
Write a one paragraph plot summaryAs you read, make sure to consult the notes
at the bottom to aid your understanding
1 First Circle (Limbo)2 Second Circle (Lust)3 Third Circle (Gluttony)4 Fourth Circle (Avarice)5 Fifth Circle (Anger)6 Sixth Circle (Heresy)7 Seventh Circle (Violence)8 Eighth Circle (Fraud)9 Ninth Circle (Treachery)
Why are they in this order?
DESIGN YOUR OWN LEVELS-PICK 1 TO REPRESENT THROUGH WORDS OR VISUALS
Punishment Reward
What is the crime? Who is there? What is their
punishment?
What is the virtue? Who is there? What is their
reward?
KEY TERMS DEFINED BY DICTIONARY.COM
Purgatory Limbo
*(in the belief of Roman Catholics and others) a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins, or undergo the
temporal punishment that, after the guilt of mortal sin has
been remitted, still remains to be endured by the sinner.
*any condition or place of
temporary punishment, suffering, expiation, or the like.
*In Roman Catholic Theology . A region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized
infants (limbo of infants) and
the righteous who died before
the existence of Christianity (limbo of the fathers
or limbo of the patriarchs).
VISUALS TO ACCOMPANY
THE TEXT
VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS
Interactive Map 1 Interactive Map 2 Illustrations of Gustav Dore Paintings of Yates Thompson
http://www.danteinferno.info/circles-of-hell/
The violent against people and property, the suicides, blasphemers, and the userers.
http://www.vogliosapere.org/wp-content/uploads/Dante-s-inferno.jpg
http://www.italnet.nd.edu/Dante/images/tp1568/1568.inf1.wc.150dpi.jpeg
HERO’S JOURNEY OF DANTE Considering the Divine Comedy as a
whole (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso), how does this work represent a classical hero’s journey?