Curated OER
A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
Students study the structure and artistry of Dante's, Divine Comedy. They examine how romantic love is interpreted in the episode of Paolo and Francesca while experiencing literary allusions.
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Dante's Inferno
Students examine Dante's trip through Hell. In this literature lesson plan, students read The Inferno and then collaborate to discuss moral redemption and create their own maps of Hell based on the poem. Written descriptions are required...
SparkNotes
Inferno by Dante Alighieri: Study Guide - Mini Essays
For this online interactive literature activity, students respond to 7 short answer and essay questions about Dante's Inferno. Students may check some of their answers online.
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Inferno
In this online interactive reading comprehension activity, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Dante's Inferno. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
Trinity University
Dante's Inferno: Allegory, Hero's Journey, or Epic Poem? Yes!
Dante Alighieri's "The Inferno" is the central text in a unit designed for high school seniors. Scholars compare the Christian concept of Hell to Dante's. In addition, they examine the tale as an example of epic poetry, as an allegory,...
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World Literature: The Inferno Essay
In this literature analysis worksheet, studnets read Dante's Inferno and write an introduction with a thesis statement. Students give a synopsis of the comedy and then write an essay. Students select from the five options to complete the...
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A P Literary Terms
Is a list of literary terms found frequently on AP English exams of value to test takers? Now there's a rhetorical question. Here's a list that provides definitions for everything from allegory to vernacular. To say the list is...
Curated OER
Sentence Completion 15: Low-Advanced SAT Level
Do your pupils need extra practice with sentence completion? Learners will have to employ a variety of strategies to answer correctly the six multiple-choice prompts on the worksheet. A richly detailed answer/explanation key is included....
Curated OER
Islamic Roots of Judaeo-Christian Culture
Students discuss the stereotypes associated with the major religions of the world. Using primary sources, they summarize the information and role play various roles to the class. They participate in a debate between the different points...
Curated OER
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Questions
In this literary analysis activity, learners respond to 6 short answer and essay questions based on the text of the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," by T.S. Eliot.
Curated OER
Art And The Afterlife
Students discuss various cultures and their beliefs of the afterlife in this study of Japanese art. The final evaluation is done through the creation of student collages illustrating their beliefs of the afterlife.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Literature: Allusion and Symbols: Dante's Inferno
This lesson focuses on Dante's Inferno: Cantos 1-34 from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. It includes links to the Digital Dante website to read the work, handouts, and a discussion rubric.
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The World of Dante
A multidisciplinary interactive site that explores Dante's Divine Comedy. Find the texts of all three sections presented in both Italian and English. Significant people, places, creatures, deities, structures, images, and music are also...
Columbia University
Digital Dante
Excellent, detailed website with multimedia content pertaining to Dante's works, as well as links to related works by other authors. Includes a biography of Dante and links to commentaries and artwork related to The Divine Comedy.
Poetry Foundation
Poetry Foundation: Dante Alighieri
A brief description of the works of Dante Alighieri and a link to his poem "Upon a day, came Sorrow in to Me," from the Last Canto of Paradiso.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
This is the full text of the epic poem The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante including all three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated by Dante Alighieri
Read the entire Rev. H. F. Cary translation of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, available in multiple formats.
Columbia University
Columbia University: Digital Dante
Learn all about Dante Alighieri, the Italian poet and author of "The Divine Comedy." Includes a biography and a timeline of his life and work.
University of Adelaide
University of Adelaide: The Divine Comedy
Conveniently divided into Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, this site allows one to read Dante's classic poem online, or download the text. Illustrations appear when the text is read online.
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The World of Dante: Map Images
Interactive map images from Dante's "Inferno." With reproduced maps of Italy from the time of Dante's life (1300s).
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Uwm Libraries: Dante and Divine Comedy
Browse through a collection of pages on Dante focusing on the importance of his work, "The Divine Comedy".
TES Global
Blendspace: Dante's Inferno
A learning module with twenty-one links to images, videos, maps, and assessments to use before, during, and after reading Dante's Inferno.
University of Notre Dame
Ital Net: Renaissance Dante in Print: Chronology of Dante Alighieri (1265 1321)
One page chronology of important events in Dante's life.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Literature & Composition: Allusion and Symbols
This unit focuses on allusions and symbols using the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell and Dante's Inferno. It provides links to a list of common allusions from the Bible and Greek/Roman mythology, Dictionary of Symbolism, and...
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