I really enjoyed your presentations today. You had such brilliant ideas. I look forward to reading your papers!

Here are the last things we have to take care of:

If you haven’t presented today you will do it next time. Besides giving the space to the last few presentations, I would like to discuss the cantos we didn’t have time to discuss, namely Purgatorio 32-33 and Paradiso 1-2, plus the only canto you have to read for next class, that is Canto 33 of Paradiso.

I decided to cut the readings to give you the time to start working on your final papers. In class, we will also spend 30 minutes workshopping your papers. You will be at different stages of your writing process, but make sure you have at least your thesis, an outline and possible sources. If you already have these elements, you can write your introduction or parts of the paper. You don’t have to write a post this week (please work on the paper, instead).   

Please check our schedule for important deadlines and send me the lines that you would like to see on the final exams by may 10.  The final exam will have the same format of the midterm exam.

Finally, at this point you should be submitting your teachers’ evaluations. Please!

While some of you were presenting today I kept thinking about this painting, which I was going to include in your assignment at the Met, but unfortunately is not currently on display.

Style of Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, ca. 1550–60). Christ’s Descent into Hell. Oil on wood. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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