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Example ELA 8th Grade Course
Unit 1: Roots & Remembrance — The Way of Kings
Unit 1: Roots & Remembrance — The Way of Kings
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
Overview
Lessons
Assessments
Additional Resources
All Lessons
(45 total)
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Lesson 1: What Does It Mean to Lead?
Spark
50 min
Lesson 2: Bridge Four's First Run
Reading
50 min
Lesson 3: The Alethi Caste System — Darkeyes and Lighteyes
Reading
50 min
Lesson 4: Shallan and Jasnah — Scholar and Thief
Reading
50 min
Lesson 5: "Honor Is Dead" — Kaladin at the Arena
Reading
50 min
Lesson 6: The Bridge Run as System — Who Profits and Who Dies?
Reading
50 min
Lesson 7: Analytical Paragraph — Kaladin's Leadership
Writing
50 min
Lesson 8: Argumentative Writing — Should Darkeyes Accept the System?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 9: Personal Narrative — A Time I Stood Up
Writing
50 min
Lesson 10: Writing Workshop — Synthesizing the Arc's Argument
Writing
50 min
Lesson 11: Socratic Seminar — The Alethi Caste System
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 12: Mid-Unit Assessment — Analyzing Dalinar's Character Arc
Reading
50 min
Lesson 13: Independent Reading and Annotation
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 14: Revision Day — Strengthening Evidence
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 15: Vocabulary Workshop — Rosharan Terminology
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 16: Storms and Shelter — What Do We Owe Each Other?
Spark
50 min
Lesson 17: Dalinar's Vision of the Recreance
Reading
50 min
Lesson 18: The Codes of War — Honor as Civic Contract
Reading
50 min
Lesson 19: Shallan's Sketchbook — Art as Knowledge
Reading
50 min
Lesson 20: The Highprinces' War — Conquest or Vengeance?
Reading
50 min
Lesson 21: Cross-Scene Analysis — Comparing Kaladin and Dalinar's Leadership
Reading
50 min
Lesson 22: Argumentative Draft — Should Dalinar Trust His Visions?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 23: Counterargument — What Sadeas Would Say
Writing
50 min
Lesson 24: Revising for Evidence — Precision and Explanation
Writing
50 min
Lesson 25: Writing Workshop — Voice and Audience
Writing
50 min
Lesson 26: Fishbowl Discussion — Is Sadeas a Villain?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 27: Pre-Presentation Preparation — Highprince Governance Proposals
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 28: Group Presentations — Highprince Governance Proposals
Presentation
50 min
Lesson 29: Kaladin and Syl — The Nahel Bond and What It Demands
Reading
50 min
Lesson 30: The Tower Betrayal — Sadeas Abandons Dalinar
Reading
50 min
Lesson 31: "Life Before Death" — The First Ideal
Spark
50 min
Lesson 32: Kaladin Speaks the Second Ideal
Reading
50 min
Lesson 33: Dalinar Reads the Way of Kings — Memory and Accountability
Reading
50 min
Lesson 34: Shallan's Secret — Truth, Deception, and Identity
Reading
50 min
Lesson 35: The Stormfather's Visions — Who Gets to Know History?
Reading
50 min
Lesson 36: Bridge Four's Transformation — Found Family as Civic Unit
Reading
50 min
Lesson 37: Synthesizing Across POVs — What Roshar Demands of Its Leaders
Reading
50 min
Lesson 38: Analytical Essay Draft — Civic Responsibility in Roshar
Writing
50 min
Lesson 39: Weaving Evidence — Integrating Quotation and Analysis
Writing
50 min
Lesson 40: Revising for Argument Clarity — Claim to Evidence to Warrant
Writing
50 min
Lesson 41: Final Revision and Polish — Preparing for Assessment
Writing
50 min
Lesson 42: Philosophical Chairs — Oaths and Obligations
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 43: Final Presentation Preparation — Bridge Four Leadership Analysis
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 44: End Unit Assessment — Civic Responsibility in Roshar
Reading
50 min
Lesson 45: Final Presentations — Bridge Four Leadership Analysis
Presentation
50 min