Apply the full unit's evaluation skills -- claim and reason identification, the "does it hold" test, spotting unsupported claims, and naming persuasion techniques -- to one fresh passage.
This is a checkpoint week -- a chance to run every skill from this unit on one brand-new passage that deliberately mixes strong material with weak material. There is no new trick to learn today, just proof that the whole toolkit -- identifying claim and reasons, testing whether a reason holds, spotting a bare assertion, and naming a persuasion technique -- works together on an unfamiliar text.
A well-built checkpoint passage should not be all good or all bad; real persuasive writing almost always mixes strong and weak parts, and a sharp reader needs to sort out which is which rather than judging the whole passage as simply "good" or "bad" writing.
Mastery looks like: They can independently sort a fresh persuasive passage into claim, strong reasons, bare assertions, and persuasion techniques without reteaching.
Common stumbles: Judging the whole passage as entirely convincing or entirely unconvincing instead of evaluating each part -- claim, each reason, each technique -- on its own merits.
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