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Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Les Miserables is one of many classic pieces of literature. It is taught in most high schools to students that are in grade 12. I know from my own experience I loved reading this novel. ‍‍‍‍‍It was one of the every few I enjoyed reading throughout high school.‍‍‍‍‍ It has an amazing storyline and really explores the things that make each person who they are. Hugo's way of describing the situations of each character is extraordinary. He makes it so that you can picture what is going on in the novel. He creates very vivid images that just stick in your mind. It was a book that I just couldn't put down. It touches on many different themes like ‍‍‍‍‍the importance of love and compassion, social injustice, and the effects of war on a country,‍‍‍‍‍ although ‍‍‍‍‍it wasn’t until college that I really saw these themes and understood.‍‍‍‍‍ Throughout the reading of the novel I want to have students ‍‍‍‍‍look more closely at the themes‍‍‍‍‍ so they can gain a better understanding for the novel. ‍‍‍‍‍Also students will look at one of the two movie versions of the novel and compare them to the book to find similarities and differences. By looking at the movie students who are more visual learners can get a better understanding of what is going on in the novel by seeing it acted out. ‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍‍‍This text is worth teaching because it brings forth the history of the French Revolution and the effects civil war can have on a country. It would be relevant to students’ lives and parents, colleagues, and administrators because war and death might be something that they can relate. By looking at the history of another country and the affects war had on it, students can see how similar the repercussions are. What the characters experience in the novel can be the same things that students, parents, colleagues, or administrators have gone through. ‍‍‍An example would be when the rebels of the revolution are killed. Those people were once someone’s child or sibling or father. Students, parents, etc. who have been affected by the war in Iraq can relate to losing a parent, child, or sibling. ‍‍‍ ‍‍‍‍The deep story line goes into detail on how love, honesty, dishonesty, poverty, and wealth impact the lives of the characters Victor Hugo creates. When reading Les Miserables I want students to be able to take away a better understanding for how war can affect an entire country and how love, honesty, dishonesty, poverty, and wealth can make the difference between life and death. I also want them to see that there isn't always a happy ending to every story they are going to come across in their life. I think that, that is a good representation of how life itself is. There is good and bad in the world, and life can either end a sad and horrible way or in a‍‍‍‍‍ peaceful good way.‍‍‍‍‍

How do internal and external factors affect people?
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 * <range type="comment" id="451824550_9">‍‍‍‍‍Goals</range id="451824550_9">‍‍‍‍‍**
 * 1) Students will be able to compare and contrast differences between the novel and<range type="comment" id="451824550_10">‍‍‍‍‍ one movie version.</range id="451824550_10">‍‍‍‍
 * 2) Students will be able to explain how Hugo accurately or inaccurately portrays the French society during the revolution.
 * 3) Students will be able to write a narrative from one of the characters perspectives and present it to the class. Students must also dress up as their character.
 * <range type="comment" id="451824550_11">‍‍‍‍‍Standards</range id="451824550_11">‍‍‍‍‍:**
 * [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.1] Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
 * [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.2] Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
 * [|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.7] Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live production of a play or recorded novel or poetry), evaluating how each version interprets the source text. (Include at least one play by Shakespeare and one play by an A<range type="comment" id="451824550_12">‍‍‍‍‍merican dramatist.)</range id="451824550_12">‍‍‍‍‍