Divine Comedy-I: Inferno Lesson Plan

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,...