Demonstrate this unit's five core skills -- theme tracking, symbol and motif, dramatic irony, allusion, and evaluating an ending's payoff -- using the completed novel as evidence.
This is a checkpoint week: no new concept to learn, just a chance to show how much of this unit has become real, usable skill rather than something you can only do with heavy prompting. Every skill this unit taught, tracking a theme, telling a symbol from a motif, catching dramatic irony, hunting an allusion, judging a payoff, works the same way on any novel, not only on Little Women.
The fastest way to check your own readiness is to try each skill once, quickly, on a scene you have not specifically studied yet. If you can do that without flipping back to old notes for the definition, the skill has actually moved from "learned" to "usable."
Mastery looks like: They can define all five unit skills without prompting and apply at least two of them accurately to a scene the lessons did not already cover.
Common stumbles: Defining a skill correctly in the abstract but failing to apply it to new, unstudied material; treating the checkpoint as a plot-recall quiz rather than a demonstration of analytical skill.
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