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Discussion: Reinterpreting the Inferno
Kind of Activity:
Group Discussion
Objective:
Students will explore how the story and themes of the text are relevant to modern audiences.
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.2
Structure:
For this exercise, the teacher should have the students watch the following clips:
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YlChHoRdcg
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZfvf-le_lA (the teacher should stop at 2:23; after this, there is a lot of very vulgar language)
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v32XWp_J8uo
Each of these film clips come from the 2007 puppet-play film adaptation of Dante's Inferno,...
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