Students will launch the investigation by listening to community professionals, capturing evidence on a storyboard, discussing how literary characters connect to career paths, and drafting an initial character-to-career claim they will test and revise in later phases.

Students will gather initial evidence from community professionals and literary excerpts, turn observations into investigable questions, and test early character-to-career hypotheses through close reading, source comparison, and peer critique before proposing a focused inquiry for the next phase.

Students will design and test a credible investigation method for comparing one literary character to one career path by refining their question, selecting passages, building shared coding categories, planning source collection, and producing a traceable evidence log they can use in the next phase.

Students will analyze the evidence they have gathered, test and refine their character-to-career hypothesis through visual and written comparison tools, and build a revised comparative presentation that is ready for final polishing in the showcase phase.

Students will present their final character-to-career investigations to community professionals, defend their evidence-based conclusions in a public showcase, gather authentic audience feedback, and write a final narrative reflection explaining how their thinking changed from the launch to the exhibition.