Dante Today

In the Teacher Resources of World of Dante, there is a link to the site Dante Today Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture which students will use to see how this great piece of literature is referenced in pop culture.

From the website:

Welcome to Dante Today

Dante Today is a curated, crowd-sourced repository for “citings” and “sightings” of Dante and his work in contemporary culture. Online since 2006.

https://research.bowdoin.edu/dante-today/

Instructions:

• Choose a category that interests you.
• You can see how to search the site here: https://research.bowdoin.edu/dante-today/users-guide/
• Once you have found a citing/ sighting that interests you, create a meme using that picture. The meme must show that you understand how the picture relates to Dante's Inferno and modern culture.
• You may use this meme generator or another generator of your choice. https://memeful.com/generator
  • Google Drawings works as a great meme creation tool too. Just add an image to your drawing and meme it up with a text box or two.
• Submit your meme to Canvas.