Target: compare Text S's “green wall” with its ten-planter observation without treating the metaphor as a measured conclusion. Prepare: S and foreground strip.
- Launch · 2 min. Read S's title alone. Ask what the image suggests before showing the count.
- Model · 4 min. Read the complete bulletin and sort six with shoots, four without visible shoots at day seven, later outcome unknown. A 6/10 observation does not certify a literal wall.
- Guided reading · 5 min. Ask whether “green wall” can be an expressive headline even if not all planters show shoots. Discuss how including the four changes a reader's picture without proving why they differ.
- Practice route · 7 min. Choose Day 26 route. Explain the metaphor's likely effect, the exact observation and one future unknown in two to four sentences or equivalent.
- Peer audit · 4 min. Partner locates the day-seven qualifier and rejects “the four failed forever” or “the six will grow into food.”
- Exit · 3 min. “What did the group actually see at the seven-day check?” Key: six visible shoots, four not yet visible.