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Why might this text be worth teaching? What do you want students to get out of it? Consider RELEVANCE for students and for the discipline of English Language Arts.

Brainstorming: Les Miserables

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. 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 effect an entire country and how love, honesty, dishonesty, poverty, and wealth can make the difference between life or 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 thier 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.