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Unit 2: Power, Propaganda, and the Art of Persuasion — Words of Radiance
Unit 2: Power, Propaganda, and the Art of Persuasion — Words of Radiance
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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(45 total)
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Lesson 1: Who Are You When No One Is Watching? — Identity and Performance in Words of Radiance
Spark
50 min
Lesson 2: Shallan's Personas — Performance, Identity, and Survival
Reading
50 min
Lesson 3: Kaladin and the Skybreakers — Two Visions of Justice
Reading
50 min
Lesson 4: The Dueling Circuit — Honor as Political Weapon
Reading
50 min
Lesson 5: Inside the Ghostbloods — Conspiracy and Power
Reading
50 min
Lesson 6: The Listeners' Choice — Freedom vs. Survival
Reading
50 min
Lesson 7: Analytical Paragraph — Shallan's Multiple Selves
Writing
50 min
Lesson 8: Argumentative Writing — Is Adolin's Honor Genuine or Performative?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 9: Personal Narrative — A Time I Changed Who I Was to Survive
Writing
50 min
Lesson 10: Writing Workshop — Synthesizing Identity and Deception
Writing
50 min
Lesson 11: Socratic Seminar — Can Deception Ever Serve Justice?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 12: Mid-Unit Assessment — Analyzing Shallan's Identity Arc
Reading
50 min
Lesson 13: Independent Reading and Annotation — Shallan's Personas
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 14: Revision Day — Sharpening Your Argument About Identity
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 15: Vocabulary Workshop — Rosharan Terminology in Words of Radiance
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 16: Power Without Accountability — The Highprinces of Roshar
Spark
50 min
Lesson 17: Sadeas's Propaganda — How Power Writes Its Own History
Reading
50 min
Lesson 18: Veil and Radiant — When Deception Becomes Identity
Reading
50 min
Lesson 19: Kaladin vs. Szeth — Competing Oaths, Competing Loyalties
Reading
50 min
Lesson 20: Adolin's Gamble — Individual Honor in a Corrupt System
Reading
50 min
Lesson 21: The March to Narak — Civic Unity and Its Costs
Reading
50 min
Lesson 22: Argumentative Draft — Should Dalinar Trust the Alethi Highprinces?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 23: Counterargument — What Sadeas Would Say About Unity
Writing
50 min
Lesson 24: Revising for Evidence — Precision in Citing Shallan's Transformation
Writing
50 min
Lesson 25: Writing Workshop — Audience and the Politics of Persuasion
Writing
50 min
Lesson 26: Fishbowl Discussion — Is Sadeas's Manipulation Worse Than Kaladin's Defiance?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 27: Pre-Presentation Preparation — The Highprince Power Analysis
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 28: Group Presentations — The Highprince Power Analysis
Presentation
50 min
Lesson 29: The Ghostbloods and Jasnah — Knowledge as Power
Reading
50 min
Lesson 30: The Parshendi's Transformation — Whose Freedom Counts?
Reading
50 min
Lesson 31: "I Will Remember Those Forgotten" — The Third Ideal
Spark
50 min
Lesson 32: Pattern's Truth — What Lies Reveal About the Lightweaver
Reading
50 min
Lesson 33: The Third Ideal — "I Will Remember Those Forgotten"
Reading
50 min
Lesson 34: Shallan's Confession — Truth, Grief, and Self-Knowledge
Reading
50 min
Lesson 35: Szeth's Defeat — Can Justice Be Served by an Unjust System?
Reading
50 min
Lesson 36: The Highprinces United — Power, Compromise, and the Price of Order
Reading
50 min
Lesson 37: Synthesizing Across POVs — What Words of Radiance Claims About Identity and Power
Reading
50 min
Lesson 38: Analytical Essay Draft — Identity and Power in Words of Radiance
Writing
50 min
Lesson 39: Weaving Evidence — Integrating Shallan's and Kaladin's Arcs
Writing
50 min
Lesson 40: Revising for Argument Clarity — From Observation to Claim
Writing
50 min
Lesson 41: Final Revision and Polish — Preparing the Culminating Argument
Writing
50 min
Lesson 42: Philosophical Chairs — Do the Ends Justify Shallan's Means?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 43: Final Presentation Preparation — Shallan's Legacy: Art, Truth, and Power
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 44: End Unit Assessment — Identity, Power, and Propaganda in Words of Radiance
Reading
50 min
Lesson 45: Final Presentations — Shallan's Legacy: Art, Truth, and Power
Presentation
50 min