Discussion & Debate – Building an Argument: Level 1 develops critical thinking, discussion, and argumentation through contemporary issues, readings, data, and evidence-based communication. Students learn to evaluate information, distinguish types of evidence and reasoning, identify strengths and weaknesses in arguments, develop clear claims, and support their own viewpoints with relevant evidence during structured discussion and debate.

What Students Do
• Evaluate information and evidence
• Distinguish types of reasoning
• Identify strengths and weaknesses in arguments
• Develop clear claims
• Support viewpoints in structured debate