Tag Archives: inferno

5/7/14

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Today, we talked about Levels 5 and 6 of Dante’s Inferno.

Level 5 – we talked about how the WRATHFUL (or angry) are here, but also are the depressed people. Back in the day, they thought depression was SLOTH, or laziness.

Level 6 – the dictionary defintion (DENOTATION) of heretic is as follows:

hereticHowever, the way Dante uses it (CONNOTATION) is as a non-Catholic. This is a list of people who USED to be Roman Catholic, and then LEFT the faith.

And then we worked some more on the Minos Project.

I am going to put the zeros in the gradebook  for the Closing Arguments essay/speech(?), so don’t be shocked when/if your grades drop.

12/10/13

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Today, we studied Level 2, 3, and 4 in Dante’s Inferno.

We talked about about that just because a soul might be in Hell with a friend or lover, that doesn’t mean they get any comfort from it. I told you about the time when my husband and I were both food poisoned, and we didn’t think about the other person at all while we were feeling so horrible.

We also read about Minos, the monster whom the Minos Project is named after: the judge of Hell.

After we read (and did the questions), we worked on The Minos Project.

12/9/2013

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Today, we started Dante’s Inferno. This will take us the next two weeks and we will be doing a major grade called the Minos Project along with it. We are using The Virtual Tour of Hell, so we aren’t reading the poem directly.

As we read, we are answering the reading guide questions. Please do this, because this will help keep you from plagiarizing from the website when you do the Minos Project.

We talked about how Dante’s was an “old-school” Catholic, and that this story is his own design. It’s an allegory,  so this story is meant to be symbolic – a scared straight story to get people to act how Dante thinks they should act.

If you missed today, make sure you read the Dark Wood of Error and Limbo and get those questions. If you still don’t understand what is going on, talk to me after class and I’ll get you straightened out. 🙂

We also talked about the project today. Make sure that you use the template that I provided for you in Blackboard. It’s there for a reason.

Make sure you don’t plagiarize. You won’t be able to pass if you copy from the webpage. Look at the student examples for assistance.

Remember – if you need help finding a person for a certain level, don’t be afraid to ask me for a person. If I give you a person, and you USE that person, it will only deduct (two) points off of your final grade of 150 points. Even if I were to give you every single person to use, you could still pass the assignment!

Try to think of creative examples that no one else is using!

5/11/2012

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Today, we went through levels 6 and 7 of the Inferno.

Make sure that you understand what “Violence Against God, Art, and Nature” means. Art is not art like Mrs. Walton, and nature does not mean George Washington will be in this level for chopping down a cherry tree.

If you need to define “heretic” for level 6, then use the internet to figure that word out. You can do it!