If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:
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Students will explore the stylistic and storytelling conventions of the Vitorian novel, and how Jude the Obscure subverts those conventions.
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Students will discuss themes of marriage and commitment in 19th-century England, and through the text deduce Hardy's opinions on those institutions.
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Students will learn about the rigid societal roles enforced in Victorian England, and discuss how social mobility has changed (or not) in the contemporary world.
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Students will look at religion and the underlying motivations behind one's acceptance or...