Divine Comedy-I: Inferno Lesson Plan

Who Put the Hell in Hell?

Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

Students will compare their own pre-existing perceptions of the text's subject matter to what they find in the text.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.4 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.6 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.10 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.3 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.4 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.5

Structure:

For this activity, students will need to create a representation of what they think of when they think of "Hell." The teacher should begin by breaking the class up into groups of at least 3–4 people and having...