Day 4

Divine Comedy-I: Inferno Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    Discussion: Reinterpreting the Inferno

    Kind of Activity:

    Group Discussion

    Objective:

    Students will explore how the story and themes of the text are relevant to modern audiences.

    Common Core Standards:

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.2

    Structure:

    For this exercise, the teacher should have the students watch the following clips:

    1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YlChHoRdcg

    2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZfvf-le_lA (the teacher should stop at 2:23; after this, there is a lot of very vulgar language)

    3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v32XWp_J8uo

    Each of these film clips come from the 2007 puppet-play film adaptation of Dante's Inferno,...

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