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Example ELA 8th Grade Course
Unit 3: Recovery & Reciprocity — Oathbringer
Unit 3: Recovery & Reciprocity — Oathbringer
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: "You Cannot Have My Pain" — Accountability and Recovery in Oathbringer
Spark
50 min
Lesson 2: The Thrill — Examining the Psychology of War and Violence
Reading
50 min
Lesson 3: Shadesmar — The Cognitive Realm as Mirror of the Physical World
Reading
50 min
Lesson 4: The Fused — When the Enemy Has Its Own Story
Reading
50 min
Lesson 5: Navani's Science — Fabrials as Acts of Resistance
Reading
50 min
Lesson 6: The Recreance — Why Did the Knights Radiant Break Their Oaths?
Reading
50 min
Lesson 7: Analytical Paragraph — Dalinar's Accountability Arc
Writing
50 min
Lesson 8: Argumentative Writing — Can a Leader Who Has Done Evil Become Good?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 9: Personal Narrative — A Time I Had to Reckon With a Mistake
Writing
50 min
Lesson 10: Writing Workshop — Synthesizing Recovery and Responsibility
Writing
50 min
Lesson 11: Socratic Seminar — Can Someone Who Has Done Evil Earn Redemption?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 12: Mid-Unit Assessment — Analyzing Dalinar's Accountability in the Rift
Reading
50 min
Lesson 13: Independent Reading and Annotation — Dalinar's Flashback Chapters
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 14: Revision Day — Strengthening Your Argument About Accountability
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 15: Vocabulary Workshop — The Language of Recovery and the Cognitive Realm
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 16: The Fall of Kholinar — When a System Fails Its People
Spark
50 min
Lesson 17: The Fall of Kholinar — Civic Collapse and the Unmade
Reading
50 min
Lesson 18: Dalinar's Darkest Memory — Accountability for Atrocity
Reading
50 min
Lesson 19: The Shadesmar Journey — Crossing Between Worlds
Reading
50 min
Lesson 20: The Thrill as Unmade — Addiction, War, and Moral Responsibility
Reading
50 min
Lesson 21: The Coalition — Building Unity Across Difference
Reading
50 min
Lesson 22: Argumentative Draft — Should Dalinar Be Trusted to Lead the Coalition?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 23: Counterargument — What Odium Would Say About Accountability
Writing
50 min
Lesson 24: Revising for Evidence — Precision in Citing Dalinar's Flashbacks
Writing
50 min
Lesson 25: Writing Workshop — Voice, Vulnerability, and Persuasion
Writing
50 min
Lesson 26: Fishbowl Discussion — Is the Recreance a Betrayal or a Tragedy?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 27: Pre-Presentation Preparation — The Coalition Council Analysis
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 28: Group Presentations — The Coalition Council Analysis
Presentation
50 min
Lesson 29: Odium's War Machine — Ecological and Human Costs
Reading
50 min
Lesson 30: The Sibling Restored — Technology, Connection, and Recovery
Reading
50 min
Lesson 31: "I Will Unite Instead of Divide" — The Bondsmith's Oath
Spark
50 min
Lesson 32: "You Cannot Have My Pain" — Refusing Odium's Bargain
Reading
50 min
Lesson 33: The Fourth Ideal — Kaladin Accepts His Limits
Reading
50 min
Lesson 34: Shallan Chooses — Identity, Integration, and Wholeness
Reading
50 min
Lesson 35: The Battle of Thaylen Field — Coalition, Sacrifice, and Victory
Reading
50 min
Lesson 36: The New Desolation — What Recovery Demands of a Community
Reading
50 min
Lesson 37: Synthesizing Across POVs — What Oathbringer Claims About Accountability
Reading
50 min
Lesson 38: Analytical Essay Draft — Accountability and Recovery in Oathbringer
Writing
50 min
Lesson 39: Weaving Evidence — Integrating Dalinar's and Kaladin's Arcs
Writing
50 min
Lesson 40: Revising for Argument Clarity — Making the Warrant Visible
Writing
50 min
Lesson 41: Final Revision and Polish — Preparing the Culminating Argument
Writing
50 min
Lesson 42: Philosophical Chairs — "You Cannot Have My Pain" — Does Refusing Victimhood Serve Justice?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 43: Final Presentation Preparation — Restoration and Its Costs in Oathbringer
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 44: End Unit Assessment — Accountability, Recovery, and Restoration in Oathbringer
Reading
50 min
Lesson 45: Final Presentations — Restoration and Its Costs in Oathbringer
Presentation
50 min