Our project is shortly called as the project of writing the continuation of the novel 'Les Miserables' of Victor HUGO,who is the master of French literature for giving a message of universal love of man, with a striking language. The intention of writing the continuation of the novel is not changing the end; but to continue the novel where the author puts the point in final culmination by using the creativity of students. In other words, this project was implemented in our school in 2015 and very positive results were obtained from our project and it is currently continuing with the participation of 26 students at our school. In this context, all of our strategic partners (including our students) will read the 'Les Miserables' novel written with the appropriate number of pages per year and discuss the characters of the novel, the event pattern, space and time with each other and with their teachers. They will watch a movie made in 1998 which is a good adaptation of Les Miserables. They will have tests made of 25 questions prepared by language teachers of each school. After these events, the students will ask themselves the following question: "If I were Victor HUGO who lived today, how would I continue the the end of novel?" With this question, our students will put themselves in place of Victor HUGO, and they will continue the novel by emulating such a master writer, sticking to the novel characters and developing them. As coordinator school we will review the attendance papers written by students of four communal schools, including ours, during our education and training activities. We will transfer all the articles to digital media and accumulate them. An average of 150 students from four partner schools will participate in the project. We will screen the texts written by these students with the help of language teachers, such as language, narration, topic integrity and style. In addition, language teachers will translate the language of each student's writing into English, common language. These works translated into English and the articles of the students which we find worth printing and which were written in each country's own national language will be printed by the contracted printing house in our country in the novels and customs that we will identify with the partners. We will send these works to our partners. Each secondary school will open these booths in the centers of the city where they live and distribute them free of charge to the citizens who write their thoughts in the journals book. We will do a similar kind of activity in France. We will see the house where Victor HUGO was born and go to the Paris/Maison de Victor HUGO museum. If the museum administration consents, we will present the books the students have written to the museum. We will visit Victor HUGO's memorial tomb in the Pantheon. In Paris Vosges Square we will open a special stand for our project and distribute our book free to those who fill out the special memoir book for Victor HUGO.We will also share our book in PDF format free of charge at our partner schools site, our project-specific website www.lesmiserables41.com, and social networking sites. Starting from October 2018, posters of our project will be posted at every joint school. We will advertise our project for two years with stationery materials such as t-shirt, cap, calendar, memorandum book, special to the name of our project from the project budget. In this project, which is mostly aimed at junior high school and/or high school students, it is aimed at strengthening the skills of our target students in the field of creative writing by adopting the idea of putting a new work on the end of creative thinking power. We aim to develop the creativity skills that exist at the secondary school and / or high school students' belief that they can be good writers if they wish, that they can create their own books and that they have their own creativity skills. Reading an artwork created by them will increase the emotional and cognitive levels of the value and interest of the students and they will feel as individuals integrated into the society. By making a positive impact on the cognitive and emotional intelligence of students in the field of creative writing with all of these studies, we will help the 15-year-old students achieve their goals of lowering the failure rate below 15%, lowering the school drop-out rate below 10%, improving quality and productivity in education and training, and learning at least one foreign language in addition to the mother tongues of all EU citizens.
Our project can be briefly described as the project of writing the continuation of the novel 'Les Misérables' by Victor HUGO, the master of French literature, who is a world classic in the field of literature and tells the subject in a striking language with the message of universal human love. The intention to write the sequel of the novel is not to change the ending; The aim is for the students to continue the novel by using their creativity from where the author puts the point in the last sentence at the end of the book. This project was implemented in our own school in 2015 and very positive results were obtained from our project. In this project, the students of all our strategic partners – including our own students – read the novel 'Les Miserables', which was written with the number of pages appropriate for their age, and discussed the characters, plot, place and time elements of the novel among themselves and with their teachers. They watched the 1998 movie, a beautiful adaptation of 'Les Miserables', and they took a 25-question test prepared by the language teachers of each school. After these activities, the students asked themselves the following question: 'If I were Victor HUGO living today, how would I continue the Les Miserables novel from where it left off?' With this question, our students put themselves in Victor HUGO's place and emulated such a master writer, remained true to the novel characters and developed them. They continued the novel. There was no limit to the number of pages in the continuation articles written by the students. As the coordinating school, we examined the follow-up letters written by the students of the four partner schools, including ourselves, in our education activities. We transferred all the articles to digital media. A total of 180 students from four partner schools participated in our project. However, the articles written by these students were screened by language teachers with criteria such as language, expression, subject integrity and style. As a result, we decided that the works of 46 students were worth publishing as a book. In addition, the language teachers translated the writings of each student in their own language into English, which we will determine as the common language. The works of the students, which we found worthy of publication, were printed by the printing house contracted with the Ministry of Finance in our country, in the numbers and novel sizes that we determined with the partners. These printed works were sent to partner schools by the coordinator school. In addition, each partner country compiled the follow-up articles of their students in their own language and in English and shared them with the partner schools. The PDF version of our book, which has been turned into a book, has been shared free of charge on the social media platform of our project and on the special website www.lesmiserables41.net. Some LTT activities that could not be done face-to-face due to the pandemic were held in the virtual environment. A special notebook was created for our project by teachers and students. A pen pal with the theme of Les Miserables was started among the project students. As of October 2018, promotional posters of our project have been hung in each partner school. Our project was also advertised with stationery items such as t-shirts, caps, agendas and scrapbooks from the project budget, specific to the name of our project. The books we printed in the printing house were distributed free of charge to students, teachers, parents, and the surrounding school and institution directorates. Necessary promotion and dissemination activities were initiated in schools. Our aim in this project, which is mostly aimed at middle school and/or high school students, is to strengthen the skills of the students in the field of creative writing and to adopt the idea that they will produce a new work as a result of their creative thinking power. That's why we aim to strengthen the ties between liking books and basic literacy. Based on the idea that 'everything starts with loving a book', we aim to help middle and/or high school students believe that they can be good writers if desired, that they can create their own books, and thus develop their creativity skills. Reading, value and interest in a work created by them will increase the emotional and cognitive levels of the students and they will feel themselves as individuals integrated with the society. With all these efforts, we have a positive impact on the cognitive and emotional intelligence of students in the field of creative writing, which is among their EU 2020 targets; We will help 15-year-old students achieve goals such as reducing the failure rate below 15%, reducing the early school leaving rate below 10%, increasing the quality and efficiency of education and training, and learning at least one foreign language in addition to their mother tongue for all EU citizens.