1. AgendaWriting 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?

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3.  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?

4. http://donaldsweblog.blogspot.com/2 011/01/oh-angst.html The Forest, Illustration by Gustav Dore

5.  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, etcsymbolic equivalent Dark WoodSin

6.  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 summary  As you read, make sure to consult the notes at the bottom to aid your understanding

7.  1 First Circle (Limbo) 1 First Circle (Limbo)  2 Second Circle (Lust) 2 Second Circle (Lust)  3 Third Circle (Gluttony) 3 Third Circle (Gluttony)  4 Fourth Circle (Avarice) 4 Fourth Circle (Avarice)  5 Fifth Circle (Anger) 5 Fifth Circle (Anger)  6 Sixth Circle (Heresy) 6 Sixth Circle (Heresy)  7 Seventh Circle (Violence) 7 Seventh Circle (Violence)  8 Eighth Circle (Fraud) 8 Eighth Circle (Fraud)  9 Ninth Circle (Treachery) Why are they in this order?

8. PunishmentReward  What is the crime?  Who is there?  What is their punishment?  What is the virtue?  Who is there?  What is their reward?

9. PurgatoryLimbo * (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 he aven, 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).

11.  Interactive Map 1 Interactive Map 1  Interactive Map 2 Interactive Map 2  Illustrations of Gustav Dore Illustrations of Gustav Dore  Paintings of Yates Thompson Paintings of Yates Thompson

12. http://www.danteinferno.inf o/circles-of-hell/ The violent against people and property, the suicides, blasphemers, and the userers.

13. http://www.vogliosapere.org/wp- content/uploads/Dante-s-inferno.jpg

14. http://www.italnet.nd.edu/Dante/imag es/tp1568/1568.inf1.wc.150dpi.jpeg

15.  Considering the Divine Comedy as a whole (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso), how does this work represent a classical hero’s journey?