March 5

THE BEST WAY TO LEARN IS TO TEACH. WE ARE ALL TEACHERS.

Dante

Read one Canto aloud each day.

Be prepared to teach your assigned Canto, as indicated by your initials. These are my questions, but you should bring your own. Devote yourself to teaching & knowing Dante.

1. Explain the penitence process - focusing on the exemplar in Cantos X-XII. pm, as, mb, sm

2. Cantos XIII-XV: Why is envy vicious?How does this penitence create virtue?ai, lf, ri, nb

3. Canto XVI - Why are free will and wrath paired together? jr, ds, ta

4. Canto XVII - How is this Canto a turning point in the poem? bl, tw, wcc

5. Canto XVIII - Explain the rules governing love. cj, cc, ms

6. Canto XIX - Interpret Dante's dream and describe how the pilgrim is changing in Purgatory.

1. According to Boethius, does Satan possess will? power?

2. Draw a picture to depict the relationship between fate & providence.

3. What core assumptions lie beneath Boethius' claim that the wicked are unhappy when they unjustly go scot free?