After you read the assignment and look at Esolen's footnotes and endnotes for the canto, please feel free to solidify your understanding with material from the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies or from the Digital Dante Project at Columbia University. The material from the University of Texas is also helpful.
Here is a link to the chart we started today. Feel free to add material from Canto 10; you may also add color or otherwise improve its aesthetics. (Thursday 24 February: Dante/Purgatory introduction; Purgatory diagram; student-led discussions introduced Friday 25 February: Canto 1; draw numbers for student-led discussions Monday 28 February: Cantos 2 and 3; draw numbers for student-led discussions Tuesday 1 March: Cantos 4 and 5; connections to Inferno 5; Paolo and Francesca Wednesday 2 March: Cantos 6 and 7; here is worksheet for 6–8 Thursday 3 March: Canto 8 Friday 4 March: Cantos 9 and 10; here is worksheet for 9 and 10; here's a handout that reviews Cantos so far; here is a "Steps" handout for Canto 9; here are screencasts I made during the COVID lockdown, which review Cantos 1 and 2, Cantos 3-7, and Cantos 8-9 Monday 7 March: Student-led discussions begin: Cantos 11 (Ashlee) and 12 (Mairin) Tuesday 8 March: Field Trip with Fr. Medina Wednesday 9 March: Cantos 13 and 14 (Adrianna); WOD Quiz #3 Thursday 10 March: Cantos 15 and 16 (Ana) Friday 11 March: Canto 17, Review Cantos 1–17; Answers to the review Monday 14 March: Test Purgatorio 1–17 Tuesday 15 March: Purgatory journals assigned; Cantos 18 and 19 (Gabriela) Wednesday 16 March: Cantos 20 (Clara) and 21 (SHannan) Thursday 17 March: Cantos 22 and 23 (Sara) Friday 18 March: Cantos 24 (Astrid) and 25 (Lucy) Monday 21 March: Dante catch-up; journal ideas; here is journal brainstorm handout Tuesday 22 March: Cantos 26 (Nicole) and 27 (Clare) Wednesday 23 March: Cantos 28 (Sydney) and 29 (Keira) Thursday 24 March: Cantos 30 (Fiat) and 31 (Margot) Friday 25 March: Cantos 32 (Bella) and 33 (Siena) Monday 28 March: Workday for Purgatory journals; WOD Quiz #4 Tuesday 29 March: Review; here's the key to review; Conceptual Review, Purgatory; make sure you know the sins in the order of the mountain of Purgatory and the contents of the pageants, at the level of detail described on the review with blanks. Wednesday 30 March: Additional review for test Thursday 31 March: Test, Purgatory Friday 1 April: Workday for Purgatory journals Monday 4 April: Purgatory journals due (5 short[150–200 words], 5 long [400+ words]); Prep for Dante Costume Party Tuesday 5 April: Dante Costume Party Wednesday 6 April: Field trip to the Shakespeare Theatre to see Merchant of Venice Thursday 7 April: Begin Sense and Sensibility in class Friday 8 April: No class; Jane Austen Day Comments are closed.
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