Reasoning Skills

Students practice perspective-taking in structured, small‑group conversations modeled after a café setting.

Students deepen their understanding of any topic with step-by-step support to craft the introduction, argument, and conclusion of a compelling speech.

Students read a text-based primary source to identify its central idea by progressively cutting the source down to its fundamental words and phrases.

Students investigate a big event and its causes and effects through an interactive, all-class activity. Students work visually and interactively, with causes and effects placed around the central event, connected by arrows as students explain “why” and “how” each development led to the next.