Unit Test

I was pleased with most of the canto presentations. Thank you for your work.

Your essay is due on Monday. We will finish the Inferno and begin to review for Wednesday's unit test. Begin by looking at the previous posts on this site; you'll find what I've stressed in class and will probably ask on the unit test. There will be many questions from the first six cantos. I tend to ask about mythical characters and sinners and the punishments that seem well connected. The cantos to review are 11,12,13,17,19,20,23,24,25,27, 32,33,34. Review your presentation notes and the summary for each canto. Make sure you review the material covered in the beginning of the unit on Dante's life, the use of numbers, the literary concepts from the text, and the theological connections. Even if you missed a canto presentation, or we did not read it in class, I expect that you will take the time to read it yourself and understand the basics. Use the format of the canto organizer as a tool to help you.

Some more thoughts:

Review notes from the beginning of the unit. Look on Student Public for the Dante PowerPoint presentations for fun facts that might appear on tests. Look at definitions for free will, allegory, parody, satire, imagery, King of Time. Review facts such as:

Dante goes to the Inferno to recognize sin
He goes to Purgatorio to renounce sin
This journey is a quest and his 'neukia'
The long list of mythical creatures (Centaurs, Minos, Minotaur, Charon, Styx)
Minos condemns sinner to their circle by wrapping his tail
Why the number 3 is important (Trinity)
That Dis is Lucifer and a parody of the Trinity
Dante starts his journey in the 'Dark Wood of Error'
His journey is an allegory