Words Unbound: Teaching Dante's Inferno in the High School Classroom

by Mila Reyes

Overview

Words Unbound draws on Milton Burke’s thirty years of teaching experience to help educators bring Inferno alive for today’s young reader. In a conversational, “colleague-to-colleague” style, Burke shares the interpretations, questions, and exercises he found effective in his high-school classroom, emphasizing group discussion to help students, no matter their religious or philosophical moorings, engage meaningfully with the notoriously difficult text.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610756136
Publisher:	University of Arkansas Press
Publication date:	07/15/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	170
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Milton Burke is a retired high-school English teacher. He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Table of Contents

Contents Foreword by William A. Stephany Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Two Dantes: Canto 1 2. Pagans: Cantos 1 and 2 3. Contrapasso: Cantos 4 and 5 4. Structure, Person, and Emblem: Cantos 6–9 and 11 5. Three Literary Persons: Cantos 10, 13, and 15 6. That Foul Effigy of Fraud: Canto 17 7. A Miscellany of Fraud: Cantos 18–25 8. Tongues: Cantos 26 9. Schism: Canto 28 10. Ice: Canto 31–33 11. Dis: Canto 34 Appendix 1: Editions of Inferno Appendix 2: Online Resources Bibliography Index