Divine Comedy: Purgatorio Lesson Plan

Fact-Checking Dante

Kind of Activity:

Research

Objective:

Students will learn how to conduct research and verify its truthfulness.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.7 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.6

Structure:

At the beginning of this activity, the teacher should engage students in an open conversation about what they already know about Dante. This discussion can be quite open-ended, but the teacher may find it most expedient to go around the classroom and ask each student to contribute a new statement (which they believe to be true) about Dante. As the students share their responses, the teacher should write their answers...