Thales Academy's junior high program (grades 6-8) moves beyond the Direct Instruction method of our K-5 program and introduces more dialogue, analysis, and debate with frequent use of the Socratic Method of discussion. Rather than learning primarily through lecture methods, our junior high students are steeped in the habits of listening, interrogating, and discussing texts in the classroom daily at a time that their minds are naturally inquisitive and increasingly capable of abstract thought. Our goal is for our junior high students to build upon their foundation of factual knowledge from elementary school and emerge with a deep understanding of causation and logical reasoning when they move into high school.