Students strengthen academic literacy through research, evidence analysis, argumentative writing, reasoning, discussion, and public speaking.

Students connect learning to future opportunities through career exploration, technology, business concepts, project development, and professional communication.

Justice & Justification

What makes an argument convincing? Students investigate evidence, perspective, credibility, ethics, and reasonable doubt while learning to build and defend claims.

ETHOS

Who should you trust? Students explore credibility, intentions, responsibility, bias, and perspective through mythology and real-world informational texts.

LOGOS

Can you prove it? Students investigate scientific claims, data, misinformation, pseudoscience, bias, and psychology to determine what evidence actually supports.

PATHOS

What makes an idea powerful enough to change minds? Students analyze propaganda, media, language, and emotional appeals to uncover how audiences are influenced.

Middle School Skills → High School Success

Students practice reading complex information, evaluating evidence, writing arguments, communicating confidently, considering multiple perspectives, and defending conclusions. These skills transfer directly into high school English, science, social studies, Business, and advanced coursework.

Leads the course vision, curriculum, standards alignment, instructional design, and high school preparation experience for Argument & Debate.

Teaches Argument & Debate and supports students as they strengthen research, reasoning, argumentative writing, discussion, and communication skills.