January 31

AGENDA:

1) Optional sharing of group Modern Hell's
2) TIP (Time Investment Portfolio)
3) SMART GOALS - discuss, look for outside resources (five minumum)
4) Writing resumes - categorize your brag sheets



HW: Begin tracking your T.I.P.; expand and rewrite your SMART goal; vocabulary quiz on Friday

January 30

AGENDA:

1) Journal Write:
A Native American elder described his conflicting emotions as two dogs, one good and one evil, fighting all the time. When someone asked which dog wins, the elder replied, "The one I feed the most." Describe a time you were ambivalent and explain which dog you fed.


2) Essays Due today
3) Discuss Career Portfolio Requirements
4) Rewrite your SMART goal


HW: Canto notes and Modern Hell due tomorrow; create a brag sheet for class tomorrow; vocabulary quiz on Friday

January 26

AGENDA:

1) Journal Write:
Describe a goal that is important to you. Explain why it's meaningful and describe one step you can take TODAY toward accomplishing it.

2) Complete movie
3) Goal setting - SMART - begin thinking what this would be
4) Research and writing - What is literary criticism?


HW: Literature Analysis #4 due February 10; bring your SMART goal to class on Monday; essay due Monday night

January 25

AGENDA:

1) Journal Write:
Did you make any New Year's resolutions? Why/why not? How can setting a goal help you achieve it? What goal(s) are you setting for yourself in this class this semester?

2) I Am

January 24

AGENDA:

1 ) Handout vocabulary worksheets
2) Thesis development
3) I Am - movie



HW: Essay due Monday; Canto notes and Modern Hell due Tuesday the 31st; rework your thesis - outline - rough draft. Vocbulary worksheets due tomorrow.

January 23

AGENDA:

1) Canto presentations on XXIX, XXX, XXXI and XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXV


HW: Handout on essay topics - essay due January 30 emailed in a word doc to dbyrne@righetti.us - draft thesis due tomorrow - highlight the part of your thesis that contains the big idea, circle the part in your thesis that contains a topical big idea specific to the play, underline in your thesis the part that contains an arguable idea and is interesting, and box the part of your thesis that responds clearly to the prompt. (These will overlap somewhat).


The Inferno Essay

January 20

AGENDA:

1) Vocabulary quiz
2) Cantos XXIII, XXIV, XXV, and XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII
3) Inferno Grid


HW: Bring in your essays from Waiting for Godot to look at our thesis' on Monday; Complete Modern Hell Due Tuesday the 31st; All notes on each Canto due on the 31st; Literature Analysis #4 due February 10

January 19

AGENDA:


1) Cantos XVIII, XIX, Cantos XX, XXI, XXII
2) Time to work on your Modern Hell

HW: vocabulary quiz tomorrow

January 18

AGENDA:

1) Turn in your worksheets - grammar
2) Cantos XII, XIII, Cantos XIV and XV. Cantos XVI and XVII
3) Building a Modern Hell - what would it look like?

HW: Work on your Modern Hell....; vocab on Friday



Building-a-Modern-Hell-Dantes-Inferno[1]

January 17

AGENDA:

JOURNAL WRITE:
Dante's ideas of the afterlife are the most popular in the world; who else has created a visual interpretation of Hell this detailed? He wrote this out of anger, frustration and disappointment, and he wrote it 700 years ago. Since the Middle Ages, a lot has changed. Some of Dante's ideas may seem unfair and closed minded: his religious intolerance, attitude toward women, narrow-mindedness toward sexuality and love, loyalty toward empirical political leaders, etc...

While we might think of ourselves as enlightened, open-minded people today, what might our descendants say about us a century or two from now?

2) Read and discuss Canto 9, 10, 11 in class
3) Quiz on what we've read so far..... Circles 1-6


HW: Worksheets on active and passive sentences and parallel structure; vocabulary quiz on Friday

January 13

AGENDA:

1) Go over reading Canto's 3-8


HW:  review Canto's 1-8 - ready for quiz; Literature Analysis #4 due February 10

January 12

AGENDA:

1) Worksheet - A Personal Journey
2) Metaphorical Journey
3) Discuss Cantos 1 and 2

HW: Begin reading your Canto and be ready next week with handout, and 7-10 minute presentations on your Canto and what you found.

January 11

AGENDA:

1) Vocabulary worksheets checked (15 points)
2) Historical background on Dante, Virgil, Beatrice, The Divine Comedy- ppt
3) Drawing of Hell


HW: Read Canto 1 and 2 taking active reading notes using the "Student Notes" handout and keep these safe because you will be handing in later. Neatness and thoroughness is important; find a literature book to read for Literary Analysis #4


The-Inferno-by-Dante-Power-Point




Notes for Cantos

January 10

AGENDA: (Abandoned all hope, ye who enter here - Dante)

1) Vocabulary
2) Housekeeping (hand back work, journals/notebooks, missing class and assignments)
3) Literary Analysis #4 due February 10 - if your book is not on the list - ask me first before reading and doing the work, all books must be ok'd first.
4) Handout books - Dante's The Inferno - disclaimer / list of books #
5) Handouts on Inferno - assign readings

HW: Vocabulary worksheets due tomorrow; read introduction to Dante's The Inferno

Schedule for presenting Cantos:
Friday - Cantos 3-8
Tuesday - Cantos 9-11
Wednesday - 12-17
Thursday - 18-25
Friday - 26-28
Tuesday - 29-34


Literary Analysis



Dantes-Inferno-Project