WORKSHOPS

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WORKSHOPS

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

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START WHY MENTORS WEEKS CYCLE UNITS WORKSHOPS FINALE PROTOCOLS FADE DICT

WORKSHOPS · opener

The Forge Workshops

THE FORGE · MENTOR GUIDE

Three Taverns double as Forge Workshops. On these weeks Story Forge still runs (20 minutes), then a 25-minute workshop turns students’ lines into their Anvil talk. Retro, Skill Layer, correction, and Celebration still run. Tell students the week before what to bring.

Workshop	Week / Date	What students do	Students bring	Lead
Forge Workshop 1	Wk 7 · Oct 27 (U2 Tavern)	The thread begins: lines 1 and 2 side by side (how are they alike? how are they different?), then one thing they do every time they argue and one to change.	Journal with stories 1–2	Weaver
Forge Workshop 2	Wk 16 · Jan 19 (U5 Tavern)	Working thesis: privately reread story 1 and line 1; write “Was I right?” under line 1; draft “I used to think ___. Now I think ___.” Aloud only with renewed explicit consent; private written response valid.	Journal with stories 1–5	Weaver
Forge Workshop 3	Wk 22 · Mar 9 (U7 Tavern)	Talk outline: draft the four Anvil cards (story · then and now · three proofs · cost); a partner asks “Which two lines? Which three proofs?”	Journal + four index cards	Weaver + Text Coach

Workshop facilitation notes

FW1A momentum check. The goal is self-recognition, not product. The U1 story was written Oct 6, before the line existed, so students add line 1 under it at the start of Story Forge. Then each writes how the two lines are alike and different, plus one thing they do every time they argue and one thing to change. No writing to hand in.

FW2The thesis hinge of the year. The Weaver's question, “Put your first line next to your latest one. Where do they disagree? That's your thesis, and it was already there,” is the heart of the Anvil (see Finale). Lines record what students actually think, so a coin-flip debate side never counts as a change of mind. 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, not an editing session.

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