1. An exciting journey through
Dante’s Inferno
An exciting journey through
all the circles of Hell

2. Entry Task
Take your sin vocab words (that should be in your journals) and rank them starting with the sin you feel is the least offensive to the sin that is the most offensive.
We’re going to come back to this later.
REMINDER: HERO’S JOURNEY PROJECT DUE TOMORROW! Vocab Quiz Monday.

3. Before achieving moral redemption, an individual must take a hard look at evil both in the world and in himself. Only by confronting inner evil can people achieve self-knowledge.

5. The Vestibule The Gateway to Hell
The Indecisive: no real beliefs, those who don’t choose sides.
Not good or evil. Never make a stand for either side.
Charon guides souls across the river.
Acheron & Styx (in hell)
Forced to move constantly while being stung and bitten by wasps and flies for all eternity.

6. The First Circle Limbo: Stuck between heaven and hell.
Who is here: Virtuous pagans & unbaptized infants.
Famous People stuck here: Homer, Socrates and Plato

7. The Second Circle The Lustful Minos sits in judgment
Famous Faces: Cleopatra, Paolo & Francesca
Blown about forever by stormy winds just as, in life, they were blown about by the winds of passion

8. The Third Circle
The Gluttons

9. The Third Circle: The GLuttons
Guarded by Cerberus Wallow in mud and muck Besieged by hail & filthy water

10. The Fourth Circle The Greedy & Wasteful
They are divided into two groups, each pushing boulders against each other (symbolic of their mundane existence on earth, with sin punishing its opposite sin).

11. The Fifth Circle The Wrathful, Sullen, or Slothful
Attacking one another forever,
trapped beneath the swampy
water in the River Styx

12. The Sixth Circle Heresy atheists & Non-believers in the afterlife
Entombed in flaming graves for all eternity.
They believe the soul dies with the body, so that is their fate.

13. The 7th Circle: VIOLENCE against God, his creations, and self
Murderers are emmersed in boiling blood forever.
Centaurs keep the violent from escaping.

14. Circle Eight: Frauds
Pimps, Panderers, Fortune-tellers, Flatterers, Hypocrites, Thieves, Evil Counselors, Deceivers, the Scandalous, Falsifiers.
Many different punishments for each.

15. Seducers – Run forever in opposite directions and are whipped by demons
Flatterers – Lie up to their necks in human feces
Sorcerers – Their heads are put on their bodies backward
Hypocrites – Made to wear brightly painted lead cloaks
Thieves – Chased by venomous snakes and who, after being bitten by the
venomous snakes, turn into snakes themselves and chase the other thieves in turn
Evil Counselors – Eternally trapped in flames
Sowers of discord – Their bodies are ripped apart, healed, and then destroyed again
Falsifiers – Alchemists, counterfeiters, and perjurers are cursed with disease

16. The Ninth Circle: Lowest Level of Hell
The worst of those who betrayed their benefactors.
Most are frozen up to their necks in ice, crying out for those they betrayed eternally.
Home of Dis (Lucifer) who has 3 faces. Devours the worst of three betrayers daily in each mouth.
Judas: Betrayer of Jesus Christ
Brutus & Cassius: Betrayers of Julius Caesar

17. Journal Write
Look back at how you ranked the sins in your journal earlier.
1. How does your ranking of sins compare to Dante’s? What are the biggest similarities and differences?
2. How have our ideas about the severity of particular sins changed from Dante’s time to ours?

18. Vocabulary: The Anti-Hero
A character that is lacking heroic traits or has characteristics opposite of those of the traditional hero.
Words often used to describe an anti-hero: awkward, anti-social, alienated, cruel, obnoxious, weak, or passive.
Their story depicts change over time, and results in punishment, success, or redemption.

19. Captain Jack Sparrow: Anti-Hero from Pirates of the Caribbean
Obnoxious
Cowardly
Thieving

20. Napoleon Dynamite: Anti-Hero
Awkward
Anti-Social
Weak
…did I mention awkward?

21. Hancock: Anti Hero Alienated Anti-Social
Kind of a jerk…not very likable.

22. Canto 1 & 3 Reading!
Read and answer the questions for Canto 1. NOT HOMEWORK- Get as far as you can today.
Hero’s Journey project due tomorrow.
Use the lit textbook to read in class, or you can find the reading posted under 10th grade docs on my website.

23. Circles of Hell Project
Dante was able to create his own version of hell, now it’s your turn!
You will need to find a way to creatively display your own version of hell. This can be in the form of a poster, 3D display, etc. How you demonstrate this is completely up to you.
Requirements:
Must have 9 circles of hell progressing in severity
Each circle must include the sin as well as a fitting punishment (SCHOOL APPROPRIATE)
Each circle must include a person that might belong there (celebrity, historical, literary, or political figure, etc.) NO ONE THAT YOU KNOW PERSONALLY.
You will have tomorrow in class to work on this, as well as Monday. Due Tuesday