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Unit 4: Connections that Shape Us — The Alloy of Law
Unit 4: Connections that Shape Us — The Alloy of Law
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
Overview
Lessons
Assessments
Additional Resources
All Lessons
(45 total)
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Lesson 1: 300 Years Later — How Cultures Change and What They Keep
Spark
50 min
Lesson 2: Wax Leaves the Roughs — When the Past Calls You Back
Reading
50 min
Lesson 3: The Theft at the Wedding — Crime in the City of Harmony
Reading
50 min
Lesson 4: Wayne's Disguises — Identity as a Set of Hats
Reading
50 min
Lesson 5: Steris's Lists — Planning as a Form of Love
Reading
50 min
Lesson 6: The Roughs vs. Elendel — Two Ways of Being a Lawman
Reading
50 min
Lesson 7: Analytical Paragraph — Wax's Dual Identity
Writing
50 min
Lesson 8: Argumentative Writing — Is Tradition Worth Preserving?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 9: Personal Narrative — A Time I Was Caught Between Two Worlds
Writing
50 min
Lesson 10: Writing Workshop — Strengthening the Arc's Argument
Writing
50 min
Lesson 11: Socratic Seminar — Wayne as a Character Study in Identity
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 12: Mid-Unit Assessment — Analyzing Steris as an Unexpected Character
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 — Era 2 Twinborn Terminology
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 16: Partnership Across Difference — What Wax and Wayne Owe Each Other
Spark
50 min
Lesson 17: The Vanishers' Pattern — Investigation as Reading the World
Reading
50 min
Lesson 18: Steris Steps Up — When the Unexpected Ally Becomes Essential
Reading
50 min
Lesson 19: Harmony's Silence — When a God Doesn't Answer
Reading
50 min
Lesson 20: Edwarn Ladrian's Reveal — Family Legacy and Betrayal
Reading
50 min
Lesson 21: Cross-Scene Analysis — The Set's Ideology vs. Harmony's World
Reading
50 min
Lesson 22: Argumentative Draft — Does Progress Require Abandoning the Past?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 23: Counterargument — What the Set Believes About Harmony's World
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 Wax a Hero of Ages or Just a Lawman?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 27: Pre-Presentation Preparation — Era 2 as a Study in Cultural Change
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 28: Group Presentations — Era 2 Scadrial as a Study in Cultural Change
Presentation
50 min
Lesson 29: The Rescue — Partnership Under Fire
Reading
50 min
Lesson 30: Confronting the Set — When Legacy Turns Monstrous
Reading
50 min
Lesson 31: "We're Not Heroes — We're Professionals" — Wax's Identity at the End
Spark
50 min
Lesson 32: Wax and Harmony's Conversation — What a God Asks of a Man
Reading
50 min
Lesson 33: Wayne's Grief — Friendship as the Real Foundation
Reading
50 min
Lesson 34: Steris Revealed — What Competence Looks Like When No One Is Watching
Reading
50 min
Lesson 35: Elendel's Politics — The City Vin's World Built
Reading
50 min
Lesson 36: The Set's Deeper Purpose — Conspiracy as a Mirror of Harmony's Limits
Reading
50 min
Lesson 37: Synthesizing Across POVs — What Era 2 Says About Era 1's Legacy
Reading
50 min
Lesson 38: Analytical Essay Draft — Dual Identity and Legacy in The Alloy of Law
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 — Tradition vs. Progress in Scadrial and Beyond
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 43: Final Presentation Preparation — Wax and Wayne as a Study in Partnership Across Difference
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 44: End Unit Assessment — Identity, Legacy, and Progress in The Alloy of Law
Reading
50 min
Lesson 45: Final Presentations — Wax and Wayne as a Study in Partnership Across Difference
Presentation
50 min