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Lesson 1: The World Is Ending — What Do We Do With Doubt?
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 The Hero of Ages.
Students will use textual evidence from The Hero of Ages to support written and oral analysis.
Essential Questions
When Sazed discovers that not one of the hundreds of religions he has preserved in his Copperminds can offer him comfort in the face of the world's destruction, what does Sanderson ask us to think about the relationship between faith and evidence?
Is it possible to have hope when every rational indicator says hope is unfounded? What does that hope cost?
Texts used in this lesson
Novel
Mistborn: The Hero of Ages
Brandon Sanderson
