Example ELA 8th Grade Course
Unit 1: Roots & Remembrance — The Way of Kings
Lesson 3: The Alethi Caste System — Darkeyes and Lighteyes
Reading
Unit 2: Power, Propaganda, and the Art of Persuasion — Words of Radiance
Lesson 1: Who Are You When No One Is Watching? — Identity and Performance in Words of Radiance
Spark
Lesson 2: Shallan's Personas — Performance, Identity, and Survival
Reading
Lesson 3: Kaladin and the Skybreakers — Two Visions of Justice
Reading
Lesson 4: The Dueling Circuit — Honor as Political Weapon
Reading
Lesson 5: Inside the Ghostbloods — Conspiracy and Power
Reading
Unit 3: Recovery & Reciprocity — Oathbringer
Lesson 1: "You Cannot Have My Pain" — Accountability and Recovery in Oathbringer
Spark
Lesson 2: The Thrill — Examining the Psychology of War and Violence
Reading
Lesson 3: Shadesmar — The Cognitive Realm as Mirror of the Physical World
Reading
Lesson 4: The Fused — When the Enemy Has Its Own Story
Reading
Lesson 5: Navani's Science — Fabrials as Acts of Resistance
Reading
Unit 4: Stories for the Future — Rhythm of War
Lesson 1: Whose Story Gets Told? — Science, Memory, and the Singer Perspective
Spark
Lesson 2: Navani's Notebooks — Whose Knowledge Gets Preserved?
Reading
Lesson 3: Eshonai's Flashback — A Singer Before the War Began
Reading
Lesson 4: Kaladin's Depression — When the Protector Cannot Protect Himself
Reading
Lesson 5: Venli's Resistance — Choosing a Different Path Than Your People
Reading