Les Misérables teacher pack
Five weeks of lessons on Les Misérables for ages 14 to 18: a plan, a worksheet and the answers for each week, a final essay with a marking guide, and a reading certificate to print. Free to use in class.
Five weeks, week by week
- Week 1Chapters 1 to 73
The Bishop spares Jean Valjean, Fantine faces exploitation, and Valjean reveals his identity, raising questions about mercy and responsibility.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 2Chapters 74 to 146
Jean Valjean rescues Cosette and finds convent shelter, showing how practical care and returned kindness can challenge fear and pursuit.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 3Chapters 147 to 219
Marius questions inherited loyalties, experiences poverty, and discovers a planned ambush, linking personal judgment with wider suffering and hidden crime.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 4Chapters 220 to 292
Secret love grows as Paris rises in revolt, bringing protective care, divided loyalties, and the costs of political violence into view.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 5Chapters 293 to 365
Jean Valjean saves Javert and Marius before facing separation from Cosette, testing mercy, sacrifice, and the possibility of changed judgment.
Plan · worksheet · answers
Assessment
Final essay
Three questions to choose from, 800 to 1,200 words, with a marking guide in four bands.
Quiz bank
The 30 questions and 39 flashcards online, for homework or a quick check in class. Open the quiz
Discussion
Questions for small groups, meeting by meeting. The book club kit
Reading certificate
Certificate of reading
Student's name
has read
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
Teacher and class
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