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The student handout that sets out the goals, steps, grading, and faculty role for the archaeology simulation.
The First Cornice, continued: carvings of the punished proud. Class notes on Canto XII of Dante's Purgatorio.
The Second Cornice: The Envious. Class notes on Canto XIII of Dante's Purgatorio.
The First Cornice: Carvings of Humility. Class notes on Canto X of Dante's Purgatorio.
The First Cornice: The Proud. Class notes on Canto XI of Dante's Purgatorio.
A sample grading form for the written and oral parts of the project.
A letter that asks colleagues to play local authorities in the archaeology simulation.
An outline of the classroom simulation in which student teams assemble and interpret story fragments.
A planning sheet for an essay on the major quality of Gilgamesh or Enkidu.
Questions on Gilgamesh, Enkidu, the gods, and the meaning of the quest.
Lesson plan for Durant's essay on the conditions of civilization, with study questions and answers.
Lesson plan on the history of the epic, its discovery, the Sumerians, and the folk epic.