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