Students build
- short claim and evidence checks
- misleading graph or media critiques
- bias, sampling, causation, risk, or source-trust notes
- a final explanation of what a reasonable person should believe, question, or do next
Quarter Page
Quarter 4 — Don’t Get Played
Mar 22 to May 24, 2027
Main focus
Short anti-BS, media/data reasoning unit
Quarter 4 is a short senior-ending unit focused on claim reading, evidence checks, misleading displays, source trust, bias, sampling, and practical skepticism.
This is not a giant capstone. It is a sharp closing unit where students use the year's thinking tools to decide what a reasonable person should believe, question, or reject.
What students do
The quarter stays practical and artifact-based.
By the end of Q4, students should leave with a sharper filter for graphs, statistics, claims, AI output, and public arguments they will keep seeing after high school.
Math / QR lift
- reading claims before reacting to them
- checking evidence, sources, samples, and displays
- spotting weak comparisons and overclaims
- distinguishing association from causation
- using plain language to explain reasonable belief
Sequential QR focus windows
Two short-focus themes support the main project.
These are not separate full units or two hidden courses running at once. One focus window usually carries the first half of the quarter and the second carries the next half, with short callbacks later.
Focus window
Claim/evidence critique and misleading displays
What is the claim, what is the evidence, and how might the display be shaping belief?
Students critique media examples, graphs, infographics, and statistics by separating the claim from the evidence and noticing how design choices shape belief.
Focus window
Synthesis: causation, sampling, risk, source trust, and reasonable belief
What should a reasonable person believe, question, or do next?
Students bring back the year's main reasoning moves and use them together to make careful judgments about real-world claims.