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| id | skill_code | dimension | level | level_label | behavioral_description | sample_response | created_at | updated_at | active_version |
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| 7 | L-ACADEMIC-VOCAB | performance | 3 | Proficient | Student uses academic and domain-specific vocabulary accurately and purposefully across writing and discussion. Selects terms for their precision — chooses 'unreliable narrator' over 'the narrator lies' because the concept carries specific analytical weight. Deploys vocabulary from multiple units and disciplines. Academic terms serve analysis rather than decoration: they appear at points where precise language is necessary and are supported by explanation. Can define terms when asked but more importantly uses them in ways that demonstrate working understanding. | The story depends on dramatic irony produced by an unreliable narrator — the reader recognizes the narrator's self-deception before she does, creating a persistent gap between reported experience and actual reality. The narrator implies through selective detail and careful omission that her situation is under control, but the accumulating evidence suggests otherwise. This is not a narrator who lies deliberately; her unreliability stems from self-protective distortion, which makes the dramatic irony feel tragic rather than comic. Fitzgerald's use of foreshadowing reinforces this structure: details in the opening paragraphs — the locked room, the prescribed rest, the husband's professional authority — establish the conditions for the narrator's deterioration before she herself registers any change. The tone shifts from clinical detachment to something closer to dissociation, and that tonal progression is what signals the narrator's declining grasp on her own experience. The story's power lies in making the reader complicit: we see what is happening and cannot intervene, which transforms the reading experience into its own kind of dramatic irony. | 2026-05-24 00:17:32 | 2026-05-26 01:43:59 | 1 |