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Unit 2: Witness, Testimony, and Argument — The Well of Ascension
Unit 2: Witness, Testimony, and Argument — The Well of Ascension
California CCSS: Focus Standards
RL.7.1
RL.7.6
W.7.9
RL.7.3
W.7.1
W.7.4
W.7.5
SL.7.1
SL.7.1a
SL.7.1b
SL.7.4
SL.7.5
SL.7.6
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ELD Standards
ELD.PI.7.6a
ELD.PI.7.1
ELD.PI.7.12a
ELD.PI.7.10a
ELD.PII.7.6
ELD.PI.7.5
ELD.PI.7.9
ELD.PI.7.12b
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Lessons
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Lessons
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(45 total)
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Lesson 1: After the Revolution — Governing What You've Won
Spark
50 min
Lesson 2: Three Armies at the Gate — The Siege Begins
Reading
50 min
Lesson 3: Elend's Constitution — Democracy in a World That Doesn't Know It
Reading
50 min
Lesson 4: OreSeur and the Contract — What Loyalty Means When It's Forced
Reading
50 min
Lesson 5: Zane — The Other Mistborn and What He Represents
Reading
50 min
Lesson 6: Vin and the Mists — When the World Itself Seems Alive
Reading
50 min
Lesson 7: Analytical Paragraph — Elend's Leadership Style
Writing
50 min
Lesson 8: Argumentative Writing — Is Testimony Always Reliable?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 9: Personal Narrative — A Time I Was Misled
Writing
50 min
Lesson 10: Writing Workshop — Sharpening the Arc's Argument
Writing
50 min
Lesson 11: Socratic Seminar — Can Democracy Survive a Siege?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 12: Mid-Unit Assessment — Analyzing Vin's Relationship with the Mists
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 — Political and Hemalurgic Terminology
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 16: The Kandra Spy — Loyalty, Identity, and Deception
Spark
50 min
Lesson 17: TenSoon's Trial — The Kandra Homeland
Reading
50 min
Lesson 18: Political Alliances — When Every General Lies
Reading
50 min
Lesson 19: The Mist Spirit's Warning — When a God Can't Speak
Reading
50 min
Lesson 20: Elend Dethroned — What the Assembly Does to Idealists
Reading
50 min
Lesson 21: Cross-Scene Analysis — Who Controls the Narrative of History?
Reading
50 min
Lesson 22: Argumentative Draft — Should Vin Trust the Prophecy?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 23: Counterargument — What Ruin Would Want You to Believe
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 the Hero of Ages a Trap?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 27: Pre-Presentation Preparation — The Siege as Political Metaphor
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 28: Group Presentations — The Siege of Luthadel as Political Metaphor
Presentation
50 min
Lesson 29: Vin and Elend's Partnership — What Two People Owe Each Other
Reading
50 min
Lesson 30: The Koloss Attack — When Violence Becomes the Only Language
Reading
50 min
Lesson 31: The Well's True Purpose — What We Were Never Told
Spark
50 min
Lesson 32: Ruin Freed — The Cost of a Misread Text
Reading
50 min
Lesson 33: Sazed's Doubt — When a Keeper Loses Faith
Reading
50 min
Lesson 34: Elend Becomes Mistborn — Power Doesn't Fix Everything
Reading
50 min
Lesson 35: TenSoon's Testimony — Speaking Truth in a Trial Designed to Silence You
Reading
50 min
Lesson 36: The Mist Killings — When the World Becomes Hostile
Reading
50 min
Lesson 37: Synthesizing Across POVs — Governance, Testimony, and Ruin
Reading
50 min
Lesson 38: Analytical Essay Draft — Testimony and Power in The Well of Ascension
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 — Who Writes History?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 43: Final Presentation Preparation — Sazed's Faith as Witness to History
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 44: End Unit Assessment — Testimony, Prophecy, and Power in The Well of Ascension
Reading
50 min
Lesson 45: Final Presentations — Sazed's Faith as Witness to History
Presentation
50 min