Tentative Schedule for Worldview 3

Tentative Worldview Schedule 2006-2007 School Year
1. Begin Revelation study 8/14/06
2. First class 8/21/06
3. Finish Revelation Sept. 25 (6 weeks) and begin study of medieval literature
4. Week of 9/25—read Ascent to Love: page 11 through 1st line on 33 (7th week)
5. Week of 10/2—read Beowulf: 1st 1600 lines
6. Week of 10/9—finish Beowulf (9th week)
7. Week of 10/16—read The Song of Roland (laisse 1-149; lines 1-2009)
8. Week of 10/23—read The Song of Roland (laisse 150-291; lines 2010-4002) (11th week)
9. Week of 10/30—read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2530 lines) (12th week)
10. Dante’s Inferno (13 weeks scheduled) 25th week
Week 1: History of Florence; map of Italy; paper on Dante; chapter 2 in
Ascent to Love
Week 2: read first canto; then read it’s footnotes; then read it again; do the
same with 2nd Canto; do the same with third Canto
Week 3: read cantos 4-8
Week 4: read cantos 9-11
Week 5: reread Cantos 1-11 and mark anything you don’t understand; read
chapter 3 in Ascent to Love
Week 6: read cantos 12-17
Week 7: read cantos 18-24
Week 8: read cantos 25-30
Week 9: read cantos 31-34
Week 10: does the Inferno have a scriptural basis? Write for me as complete
a description of hell as you can based solely on scripture.
Week 11: Read the first 4 chapters (64 pages) in Ted Donnelly’s book
Heaven & Hell
Week 12: Read chapter 4 and chapter 5 in Ascent to Love
Week 13: Wrap up Dante’s Inferno—questions: thesis (What was Dante’s
purpose in writing this book?); protagonist; is there an antagonist?
11. Canterbury Tales; Fairie Queen; Augustine, Aquinas, Everyman, The Prince, Utopia, Shakespeare play, research paper (won’t be able to do all of these but remaining 11 weeks will come from some of these)