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Lesson 1: Who Are You When No One Is Watching? — Identity and Performance in Words of Radiance
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 Words of Radiance.
Students will use textual evidence from Words of Radiance to support written and oral analysis.
Essential Questions
How does Shallan's use of multiple personas — Veil, Radiant, and Shallan — reveal the relationship between identity and survival?
What does Words of Radiance suggest about whether deception can be a form of power?
Texts used in this lesson
Novel
Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson
