Dante's Inferno & Akhmatova's "Lot's Wife"

Quiz: excerpt from  Elie Wiesel's Night

Mr. Stone discussed with students the importance of reading autobiographical accounts of history to help them to learn the lessons of history and to provide role models from which they may project a vision of their own adult selves (James Fowler).

FYI:  Mr. Stone's undergraduate thesis applied James Fowler's faith development theory to the life and works of the Briish World War I poet Wilfred Owen.

Mr. Stone read "Meet Anna Akmatova" (1021) and discussed the risks and benefits of contemporary writers responses to contemporary politics.  He read Akhmatova's "Lot's Wife" (1023).  The class will briefly discuss the poem during the next class.

Homework:  Read Franz Kafka's "First Sorrow" (1017-1018) and Luigi Perandello's "War" (1027-1029).