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Unit 4: Stories for the Future — Rhythm of War
Unit 4: Stories for the Future — Rhythm of War
California CCSS: Focus Standards
RI.8.1
RI.8.6
W.8.9
RI.8.3
W.8.1
W.8.4
W.8.5
SL.8.1
SL.8.1a
SL.8.1b
SL.8.4
SL.8.5
SL.8.6
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ELD Standards
ELD.PI.8.6a
ELD.PI.8.1
ELD.PI.8.12a
ELD.PI.8.10a
ELD.PII.8.6
ELD.PI.8.5
ELD.PI.8.9
ELD.PI.8.12b
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Lessons
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Lessons
Assessments
Additional Resources
All Lessons
(45 total)
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Lesson 1: Whose Story Gets Told? — Science, Memory, and the Singer Perspective
Spark
50 min
Lesson 2: Navani's Notebooks — Whose Knowledge Gets Preserved?
Reading
50 min
Lesson 3: Eshonai's Flashback — A Singer Before the War Began
Reading
50 min
Lesson 4: Kaladin's Depression — When the Protector Cannot Protect Himself
Reading
50 min
Lesson 5: Venli's Resistance — Choosing a Different Path Than Your People
Reading
50 min
Lesson 6: The Occupation of Urithiru — Power, Control, and the Fused
Reading
50 min
Lesson 7: Analytical Paragraph — Navani's Fabrials as Acts of Resistance
Writing
50 min
Lesson 8: Argumentative Writing — Does Kaladin's Depression Make Him a Stronger or Weaker Leader?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 9: Personal Narrative — A Time I Had to Accept My Own Limits
Writing
50 min
Lesson 10: Writing Workshop — Synthesizing Science, Memory, and Resistance
Writing
50 min
Lesson 11: Socratic Seminar — Is Kaladin's Depression a Failure of Leadership or an Honest Reckoning With Its Cost?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 12: Mid-Unit Assessment — Analyzing Eshonai's Flashback Arc
Reading
50 min
Lesson 13: Independent Reading and Annotation — Kaladin's Depression Arc
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 14: Revision Day — Strengthening Your Argument About Mental Health and Leadership
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 15: Vocabulary Workshop — The Language of Fabrials and Singer Culture
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 16: The Occupation of Urithiru — Resistance, Collaboration, and Mental Survival
Spark
50 min
Lesson 17: Navani and the Sibling — Science, Consent, and Collaboration
Reading
50 min
Lesson 18: Kaladin in the Ward — Mental Health, Stigma, and Recovery
Reading
50 min
Lesson 19: Eshonai's Discovery — The Moment That Set the War in Motion
Reading
50 min
Lesson 20: Venli's Oath — Individual Courage in a Collective Crisis
Reading
50 min
Lesson 21: The Sibling's Bond — What It Means to Trust Again After Betrayal
Reading
50 min
Lesson 22: Argumentative Draft — Should Navani Have Shared Her Research With the Sibling?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 23: Counterargument — What a Fused Leader Would Say About Science and Power
Writing
50 min
Lesson 24: Revising for Evidence — Precision in Citing Eshonai's Flashbacks
Writing
50 min
Lesson 25: Writing Workshop — Voice and the Ethics of Representation
Writing
50 min
Lesson 26: Fishbowl Discussion — Does the Singer Perspective Change Who the Villains Are?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 27: Pre-Presentation Preparation — The Singer Perspective Analysis
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 28: Group Presentations — The Singer Perspective Analysis
Presentation
50 min
Lesson 29: Anti-Investiture — The Ethics of Weaponizing Scientific Knowledge
Reading
50 min
Lesson 30: Leshwi's Grief — The Fused as Tragic Figures
Reading
50 min
Lesson 31: "I Accept It" — Kaladin's Fifth Ideal and the Weight of Leadership
Spark
50 min
Lesson 32: The Fifth Ideal — "I Accept It" and the Weight of Imperfection
Reading
50 min
Lesson 33: Navani's Victory — Science, Sacrifice, and What Knowledge Costs
Reading
50 min
Lesson 34: Venli's Song — Cultural Memory as Resistance
Reading
50 min
Lesson 35: The Singers Freed — What Liberation Demands of the Liberated
Reading
50 min
Lesson 36: Eshonai's Legacy — How the Dead Shape the Living
Reading
50 min
Lesson 37: Synthesizing Across POVs — What Rhythm of War Claims About Whose Story Matters
Reading
50 min
Lesson 38: Analytical Essay Draft — Whose Story Gets Preserved in Rhythm of War?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 39: Weaving Evidence — Integrating Navani's and Venli's Arcs
Writing
50 min
Lesson 40: Revising for Argument Clarity — From Observation to Claim About Cultural Memory
Writing
50 min
Lesson 41: Final Revision and Polish — Preparing the Culminating Argument
Writing
50 min
Lesson 42: Philosophical Chairs — Is Science Neutral? Navani, the Sibling, and the Ethics of Knowledge
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 43: Final Presentation Preparation — Cultural Memory and Resistance in Rhythm of War
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 44: End Unit Assessment — Science, Story, and Survival in Rhythm of War
Reading
50 min
Lesson 45: Final Presentations — Cultural Memory and Resistance in Rhythm of War
Presentation
50 min