Reading
Lesson 4: The Fused — When the Enemy Has Its Own Story
California CCSS: Focus Standards
California CCSS: Supporting Standards
ELD Standards
In this lesson
Today you will
Students will analyze how Sanderson develops character and theme through key details in Oathbringer.
Students will use textual evidence from Oathbringer to support written and oral analysis.
Students will apply foundational reading strategies — fluency, decoding, and vocabulary in context — while engaging with Oathbringer.
Essential Questions
How does the Shadesmar setting change what the reader understands about the physical world and its costs?
What does Navani's scientific work reveal about the relationship between knowledge, power, and resistance?
Texts used in this lesson
Novel
Oathbringer
Brandon Sanderson
Short-Form Text
Oathbringer, Chapters 12-14: Kaladin and the Fused — A Different Kind of Enemy
Newsela Staff
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