september 10

JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tunes: "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" and "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" by Bob Dylan]

Describe a moment when something unexpected happened and you learned from it.

AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Review the agenda for 9/8 & 9

PLEASE:

1. Be sure that you're caught up on previous work
2. Email Dr. Preston if you need help
3. Below is the Preface from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables which we read together and discussed on Zoom -- please translate this and/or explain it in your own words, like you were telling your siblings at the dinner table, or your friends in text (because that's exactly the kind of thing you text, right? 😜). Title: THE REASON VICTOR HUGO WROTE LES MISÉRABLES

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PREFACE

So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use.

HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862.