Students will launch the project by testing ideas about fairness and rule-making through discussion, early text connections to The Giver, and a first evidence-based speaking task that sets up later book club, civic comparison, critique, and recorded panel work.

Students will test an early position on fairness and rule-making, use close reading from The Giver to build a claim with evidence and counterevidence, and refine their speaking points through peer critique before presenting a short one-minute argument.

Students will analyze evidence from The Giver and a policy-maker Q&A, sort supporting and challenging examples about fairness and rule-making, and build a claims-and-evidence outline with warrants and counterevidence that prepares them for revision and public argument.

Students will stress-test their fairness arguments through book club critique, revise their evidence-based speaking points and citations, rehearse a one-minute claim and rule proposal, defend their ideas under questioning, and capture how their thinking changed before the Fairness Forum.

Students will present their final fairness arguments and recorded panel responses to an authentic audience at the Fairness Forum, respond to questions about evidence and rule-making, and complete a brief reflection on how their thinking changed through book club discussion, critique, and civic comparison.