Week 1
Lesson 1
Consideration of chapters 1 and 2
Discussion and Spar Debate with question sparked by:  “I do face facts,” Meg said. “They’re lots easier to face than people, I can tell you."
Spar Statement:  
Facts are easier to understand than people.
Position 1:  Facts are easier to understand than people.
Position 2: No, people are easier to understand than facts
Lesson 2
Consideration of chapters 3 and 4
Discussion and Spar Debate with question sparked by: “Maybe we weren’t meant to meet before this.’ Calvin said.  “I knew you but I didn’t know you."
Spar Question: 
Is it possible that there are people out in the world that we are meant to meet, things we are meant to do that are fated to happen?

position 1:  Yes, things are fated to happen to us. 
position 2:  No,  we have control over our lives and decisions. 
Lesson 3
 Consideration of chapters 5 and 6
Discussion and Spar Debate with question sparked by: “You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.”
 —Mrs .Whatsit
Spar Statement: 
Even independent people need help sometimes.
Position 1: Yes — Even independent people need the help of others sometimes.
Position 2: No — Independent people can and should do most things on their own.
 Week 2
Lesson 4
Consideration of chapters 7 and 8
Discussion and Spar Debate with question sparked by: “For why would you wish to fight someone who is only here to save you pain and trouble?…I am willing to assume all the pain, all the responsibility, all the burdens of thought and decisions.”
Spar Question:  
Would you give up your free will  (your ability to make choices) to be completely taken care of so you’d have no responsibilities and never feel upset or pain?
Position 1: yes
Position 2: no
Lesson 5
Consideration of chapters 9 and 10
Discussion and Spar Debate with question sparked by: “She had been so certain that the moment she found her father everything would be all right.”
Spar Statement: 
Children have a right to want the protection of their parents.
Position 1:   Children have a right to want the protection of their parents.
Position 2:  Children should aim for independence. 
Lesson 6
Consideration of chapters 11 and 12
Discussion and Spar Debate with question sparked by: “We know what things are like.  It must be a very limiting thing this seeing.”
Spar Question:
Can we actually be limited by our senses? 
Position 1:    We don’t use our senses properly to see the world around us or to understand people fully. 
 Position 2:  Our senses—seeing, hearing, touch, smell, taste — are miraculous and help us to understand the world.