The pedagogical move (read this first) This unit was built without Bloom's taxonomy. Not because the verbs are wrong — "analyze" and "evaluate" describe real cognitive work — but because the verb ladder treats thinking as a sequence of demonstrable behaviors. A student can "analyze" a song by producing sentences that look analytical, with no awareness of what they're doing or why. The substitute here is metacognition checkpoints: structured pauses where students are asked not what they think,