EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY

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TEST YOURSELF ON EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY
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To explore (various translations of Divine Comedy)

Dante Alighieri 1265-1321 Divine Comedy
Dante Aligheri Divine Comedy
Dante Aligheri Divine Comedy
Dante Aligheri Divine Comedy (By Project Gutenberg) zip
Digital Dante

Summaries to be read:
  1. http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/inferno/shortsumm.html
  2. http://www.novelguide.com/divinecomedy/novelsummary.html
  3. http://www.awerty.addr.com/divine2.html
  4. http://www.enotes.com/divina-commedia/
  5. Inferno: http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/index2.html
  6. Purgatory: http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/purgatory/ (pictures)
  7. Paradise: http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/paradiso/ (pictures)

Assignment:
Go to SAS in Schools Curriculum Pathways®;
Login as studenthhs; enter 163 into Quick Launch and complete activity by Nov. 1

 ==>> Check out Dante's Inferno -- A Virtual Tour of Hell

Assignment:
for November 29:
Check picture links to Dante's Inferno to work on new assignment:
1. http://jade.ccccd.edu/Andrade/BritLitI2322/images/NEWINF.GIF
2. http://www.oxfordtutorials.com/DanteInferno.jpg
3. http://www.vdoh.org/teachers/Schmollinger/Dante/funnel.jpg
4. http://www.vdoh.org/teachers/Schmollinger/Dante/sideview.jpg
5. http://geophysics.ou.edu/solid_earth/notes/harmonic/DanteInferno.gif
6. http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/index2.html

In Dante's Inferno many sins are mentioned on different levels. What sins would be listed in 2007 if Dante were writing the Inferno today? Why?

Dante's Purgatory:
1. http://www.wolfram.demon.co.uk/purgatory4.gif
2. http://www.portaldoastronomo.org/images/tema19/tema19_1_3.jpg
3. http://www.pohick.org/dante2_files/slide0079_image001.jpg
4. http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/purgatory/ 

How would the Purgatory look like today in 2007? Why?

Dante's Paradise:
1. http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/paradiso/
2. http://www.necronauts.org/pic/jimsld2.jpg
3. http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~chappell/Images/Dante/DanteViewPara.jpg

And the Paradise? Why?

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Assignment for December 6th
The Petrarchan Sonnet

Read a sonnet by Milton and analyze rhyme scheme etc. and answer questions on SAS in Schools Curriculum Pathways®;
Login as studenthhs; enter 139 into Quick Launch and complete activity by December 6th in your groups

Be sure to explain the difference between an English/Shakespearean and Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet.

Assignment for December 20th:

 

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Assignment for January 10th:
Read The Prince by Machiavelli

Official Site: http://www.emachiavelli.com/

e-books: 
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1232
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/m/machiavelli/niccolo/m149p/

Synopsis:
http://education.yahoo.com/homework_help/cliffsnotes/the_prince/5.html
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/pri/
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-148,pageNum-5.html
Assignment for February 28th

Go to SAS in Schools Curriculum Pathways®;
Login as studenthhs; enter 571 into Quick Launch and complete activity by
February 28 in your groups

 

 

Assignment for March 7

Go to SAS in Schools Curriculum Pathways®;
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March 7 in your groups

Please hand in assignment by this date since we do not wish to give you assignments the week before we leave.

Assignment for March 14

Go to SAS in Schools Curriculum Pathways®;
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March 14 in your groups