One page per week. Fill it out during the Laboratory phase, after Observation and Cipher but before Dialectic. Your Synthesis at the bottom is what your instructor checks first — if you can't write it yet, the page above it isn't finished. Keep every completed week; by Week 12 you'll be citing your own earlier pages without being told to.
| Party | Claim | Actually Resolved? |
|---|---|---|
Name one real dispute "resolved" by procedure without an actual verdict ever being reached. What did the procedure accomplish instead?
| Advisor | What He Controls Access To | What Richard Doesn't Hear Because of Him |
|---|---|---|
Find a real case of an inner circle that filtered information rather than challenged it. State the mechanism, separate from any question of the advisors' personal character. Cite one line.
| Revenue Source | Traditional Purpose | What Richard Converts It To |
|---|---|---|
Name a real case of a long-term institutional asset converted into short-term liquidity. What was lost that the balance sheet doesn't show? Cite one line.
| What Gaunt Says | What Richard Actually Does in Response |
|---|---|
Why do institutions reliably ignore their most credible internal critics until it's too late to act on the warning? Is this particular to Richard, or structural to power itself? Cite one line.
Strongest Defense Exercise: Before judging Richard, write the strongest lawful case for his seizure of Gaunt's estate. Then write the case that it is the single act that turns a loyal subject into a threat. Can both be true at once?
| What Bolingbroke Says | What It Could Mean (Narrow) | What It Could Mean (Total) |
|---|---|---|
What work does the ambiguity do for him that a direct claim to the throne couldn't? Cite one line.
| Moment | Is Neutrality Still Available to York? | What Would Break It |
|---|---|---|
Find the exact moment neutrality stops being an option for York. Cite one line.
| Noble | Order Joined | Stated Reason | What the Previous Defection Licensed |
|---|---|---|---|
Name a real case where support for something shifted person by person before anyone declared it had shifted. Cite one line.
Test the Claim: Is removing an opponent's enablers before confronting the opponent itself an act of mercy, cowardice, or good sequencing? Defend one, using only the text.
| Turn | What Bolingbroke Actually Controls | What He Needs to Appear to Control |
|---|---|---|
Name the moment the appearance of consent and the fact of force are furthest apart in this scene. Cite one line.
Identity Split Exercise: List what "the king" was allowed to do that Richard, the person, no longer can. What's left when you subtract the first list from the second?
| What the Ceremony Says Is Happening | What Is Actually Deciding the Outcome |
|---|---|
Bring a real forced transition still performed as voluntary (a resignation letter, a "stepping down"). Where do the two columns diverge? Cite one line.
| What Reporting His Son Costs York | What It Buys York and the New Regime |
|---|---|
Defend York's choice on strictly transactional grounds. Cite one line.
Two Arguments Exercise: Using only the text, argue first that Henry's repudiation of Exton is sincere. Then argue it is theater. Which argument used more textual evidence?
This week does not use a worksheet. Prepare your "Bolingbroke Strategy" using the specific mechanics you've cited across Weeks 1–14 — see the separate Capstone Rubric for format. Bring your completed pages; you will be expected to cite them, and your strategy must account for what happens after the crown is taken, not only how it was taken.