WORKSHOPS

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Three Tavern overlays: pattern-spotting, thesis exploration, draft intensive.

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START WHY MENTORS WEEKS CYCLE UNITS WORKSHOPS FINALE PROTOCOLS FADE DICT

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The Forge Workshops

THE FORGE · MENTOR GUIDE

Three Taverns double as Forge Workshops. On these weeks the standard Story Forge block is replaced by the workshop; Retro, Skill Layer, and Celebration still run. Tell students the week before what to bring.

Workshop	Week / Date	Replaces Story Forge with	Students bring	Lead
Forge Workshop 1	Wk 7 · Oct 27 (U2 Tavern)	Pattern-spotting across U1–U2 debates: “What kind of arguer are you becoming?”	Forge Journal so far	Weaver
Forge Workshop 2	Wk 16 · Jan 19 (U5 Tavern)	Thesis exploration: pull the U1 Story Layer, read it aloud, ask “Was I right? Did the year prove me wrong?”	Journal + U1 Story Layer	Weaver
Forge Workshop 3	Wk 22 · Mar 9 (U7 Tavern)	Draft intensive + peer review of the Anvil presentation-in-progress	Anvil draft-in-progress	Weaver + Text Coach

Workshop facilitation notes

FW1A momentum check. The goal is self-recognition, not product. Each student names one pattern in how they argue and one they want to change. No writing to hand in.

FW2The thesis hinge of the year. The Weaver's question, “In Unit 1 you argued X; by Unit 4 you argued the opposite. That's your thesis, and it was already there”, is the heart of the Anvil (the year-end presentation, see Finale). This is also where Mentor A re-checks the load in the 2-mentor config (Section 2).

FW3The last structured help before the Anvil. Run it as a peer jury: a partner reads each draft and asks “What's your thesis, and where's the evidence?”, not as an editor.

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