☕ Conversation Starter Café

Students rotate through short discussion rounds using excerpt cards, images, and local primary-source artifacts tied to identity, conflict, truth, and power. They capture notes in their investigation journal, naming one issue that could connect a novel or play to a nonfiction text and recording at least two emerging questions. The class closes with a brief reflection circle in which each student shares one academic breakthrough, one challenge, and a next-step reading goal.