feat(content): author the ROOT_ V1 orientation module and three practice-bank intro lessons

- root-01-m00-welcome-to-root: program overview + Lab-lifecycle orientation (disposable Labs, permanent progress, hints, reset/recreate, help-requests). - One short intro-lesson activity for each of the three bare practice-bank modules (root-06-m01, root-07-m01, root-10-m02), explaining what the bank is and why it has no per-scenario teaching of its own — the minimum real authoring needed for genuine self-paced readiness without reclassifying them optional (see the curriculum migrations). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
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+# Practice Bank: Deployments & Workloads
+
+This module is different from the ones before it. There's no new lesson here — you already got
+the real teaching in **Deployments, Scaling & Updates** and **Jobs, CronJobs & DaemonSets**. This
+is eight short, focused Labs that drill the exact same skills at speed: deploy, scale, roll
+forward, add a liveness probe, edit a live object, and reason about Jobs/CronJobs/DaemonSets
+without a guided walkthrough alongside you.
+
+## Why this exists
+
+Real fluency with `kubectl` comes from repetition, not from reading about it a second time. Each
+Lab here is a small, self-contained task — no long setup, no new concepts — so you can move
+quickly and build the kind of muscle memory that matters when you're troubleshooting a real
+cluster under time pressure later in this program.
+
+## How to use it
+
+Work through the eight Labs in order. If one takes you more than a few minutes, that's useful
+information — it usually means the earlier module's concept hasn't fully clicked yet, and it's
+worth a quick re-read of that lesson before continuing rather than pushing through by trial and
+error.
+
+## Instructor Notes
+
+**Delivery:** This module has no lesson/demonstration/knowledge-check scaffolding by design — it
+is the original Phase 1-5 "workloads" scenario bank, reused here as a self-paced speed-practice
+set once the real teaching (root-06-m02/m03) has already landed. In an instructor-led cohort,
+this is a good candidate for a timed "workloads sprint" between the teaching modules and Jobs.
+
+**Capstone note:** These eight scenarios are also the exact set the pre-existing
+`rootnode-path.json` "workloads" stage requires to unlock the Capstone assessment (a separate,
+older mechanism from this course's own prerequisite chain — see
+docs/ROOT_V1_CURRICULUM_MANIFEST.md). Do not mark this module optional/is_required=false without
+re-checking that gate; a student can only be told to skip it if the Capstone gate itself is
+intentionally changed too.
+
+**Common mistake to watch for:** students treating the MCQ-style activities
+(jobs-cronjobs-mcq, daemonset-mcq, deployment-strategy-mcq) as throwaway trivia — they're
+checking the same conceptual judgment calls the reflection in root-06-m03 raised, just faster.