Inferno Unit
Essential Question:
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How does one develop and exhibit morality? Is it possible to achieve moral redemption? If not, why? If so, how?
To what extent do we learn morals from our environment?
What are the differences between justice and fairness?
Are crimes different from sins?
Essential Skill
Video
1 Read closely to determine what
 Allegory
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the text says explicitly and to make
logical inferences from it; cite
specific textual evidence when
writing or speaking to support
conclusions drawn from the text.
DUE DATE: _________________
2 Analyze how complex
characters (e.g., those with
multiple or conflicting motivations)
develop over the course of a text,
interact with other characters, and
advance the plot or develop the
theme.)
 Character
Types
video
DUE DATE: _________________
3 Determine a theme and how it
emerges. Use details to support.
 Review
Theme
Video if
needed
DUE DATE: _________________
4 Write narratives to develop real
or imagined experiences or
events using effective technique,
well-chosen details, and wellstructured event sequences.
DUE DATE: _____5/2/2014_____
 Writing
Assignment
Directions
Assignments
Required by all Students:
 12 Line Read
 Canto 3 Close Read WS
 Canto 5 Close Read WS
 Canto 34 Close Read WS
 Select One:
1. Track Dante’s Journey and then write and a
journey of another epic hero of your choice.
Compare/Contrast the two citing specific
examples from the text.
2. Research the influence that religion had in
Dante’s writing. What specific examples can
you provide that are related to Dante’s
religion? Cite the text.
3. Write a character analysis for Dante in Canto
1 and Canto 34. Explain the changes that he
has gone through.
 Select One:
1. Use the steps of Kohlberg’s Morality
Development. Design activities to promote
moral development for each stage presented.
See handout
2. Capture examples of both positive and
negative moral driven behaviors. Present
through multimedia these witnessed events
and solutions to help prevent these behaviors
in the future. See handout
3. Write a critical essay discussing the themes
developed in Dante’s Inferno and why lessons
a reader can apply in today’s society. See
handout
Required for all students:
 Students should write a narrative
telling their own personal journey.
Include the archetypal steps to a
journey.
Class Activity
 Allegory Graphic
Org.
 Read “Lessons on
Manliness from
Dante” and
complete the group
response
worksheet.
 Jigsaw Read
“Courtly Love and
Chivalry in the Later
Middle Ages”
 Analyze the graphs
presented in the
Gallery Walk during
class. Turn in your
Edmodo writing on
the morals of
today’s teenagers.
 Socratic Seminar
none
As you complete your assignments, have Mrs. Stephenson check them. Your final day of
the unit will be the day of the Inferno Test, April 25, and all assignments must be turned in
at that time.