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Example ELA 7th Grade Course
Unit 3: Dreams and Opportunity — Hero of Ages
Unit 3: Dreams and Opportunity — Hero of Ages
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: The World Is Ending — What Do We Do With Doubt?
Spark
50 min
Lesson 2: Ruin's Voice — When Entropy Whispers in Your Head
Reading
50 min
Lesson 3: Sazed's First Religions — Christianity, Islam, and a Thousand Lost Faiths
Reading
50 min
Lesson 4: Vin and Elend's Campaign — Love in the End Times
Reading
50 min
Lesson 5: Spook in Urteau — Hemalurgy and the Lie of a New Tyrant
Reading
50 min
Lesson 6: The Koloss Army — When Ruin's Tools Turn Against the World
Reading
50 min
Lesson 7: Analytical Paragraph — Sazed's Crisis as the Heart of the Novel
Writing
50 min
Lesson 8: Argumentative Writing — Is Sacrifice Meaningful?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 9: Personal Narrative — A Time I Chose to Keep Trying
Writing
50 min
Lesson 10: Writing Workshop — Building the Arc's Argument
Writing
50 min
Lesson 11: Socratic Seminar — Can You Preserve What You Don't Believe In?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 12: Mid-Unit Assessment — Spook's Arc as a Study in Temptation
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 — Shard and Hemalurgic Terminology
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 16: The Final Battle Approaches — What Is Worth Saving?
Spark
50 min
Lesson 17: TenSoon's Return — Loyalty Tested and Reaffirmed
Reading
50 min
Lesson 18: The Inquisitors Strike — Ruin's Agents Unmask Themselves
Reading
50 min
Lesson 19: Marsh Against Himself — Free Will Under a God's Control
Reading
50 min
Lesson 20: The Atium Cache — What Power Costs When It's the Last Hope
Reading
50 min
Lesson 21: Cross-Scene Analysis — Faith, Evidence, and the Last Religion
Reading
50 min
Lesson 22: Argumentative Draft — Is Sazed's Final Faith Earned?
Writing
50 min
Lesson 23: Counterargument — What Ruin Would Say About Hope
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 Catacendre a Happy Ending?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 27: Pre-Presentation Preparation — The Catacendre as Remaking
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 28: Group Presentations — The Catacendre as Remaking the World
Presentation
50 min
Lesson 29: Vin Becomes Preservation — The Weight of a Shard
Reading
50 min
Lesson 30: The Final Battle — Vin and Ruin at the End of the World
Reading
50 min
Lesson 31: "I Am Both Ruin and Preservation" — Sazed Becomes Harmony
Spark
50 min
Lesson 32: The New World — What Harmony Remade and What He Left the Same
Reading
50 min
Lesson 33: Marsh's Survival — Free Will as the Final Victory Over Ruin
Reading
50 min
Lesson 34: Spook's Choice — Becoming Mistborn Through Sacrifice
Reading
50 min
Lesson 35: The Last Epigraphs — Sazed's Letters as Preserved Memory
Reading
50 min
Lesson 36: Synthesizing the Trilogy — Ruin, Preservation, and the Cost of Balance
Reading
50 min
Lesson 37: What Harmony Cannot Do — The Limits of a God Who Holds Both Powers
Reading
50 min
Lesson 38: Analytical Essay Draft — Faith, Sacrifice, and Hope in The Hero of Ages
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 — Is Harmony a Better God than the Lord Ruler?
Academic discussion
50 min
Lesson 43: Final Presentation Preparation — Sazed's Transformation as the Trilogy's Answer
Flex day
50 min
Lesson 44: End Unit Assessment — Faith, Sacrifice, and Hope in The Hero of Ages
Reading
50 min
Lesson 45: Final Presentations — Sazed's Transformation as the Trilogy's Answer
Presentation
50 min