HS Logic

Teacher: Lani Rodriguez

Cost: $60 a month ($40 registration fee)

Recommended Age Level: 9-12th grade

Curriculum: Introductory Logic, 5th edition, Student Handbook

Materials Needed: Introductory Logic, Student Handbook

Course Description: Highschool students will encounter many fallacious arguments both in their youth and as they grow into a fully adult world. From billboards to college professors to politicians, false types of arguments are used everywhere. Learn to discern what arguments are valid and which are not with The Art of Argument, teens will be taught to identify twenty-eight informal fallacies.

Seeking to give students the tools and knowledge to build strong arguments, The Argument Builder teaches the argument-discovery method called "Common Topics", which presents a list of lines of argument that allows you to discover the possible arguments for your subject. Terms and concepts from the study of logic and rhetoric are explored, as well as the ancient Greeks and Romans who came up with them. Exercises feature room to answer, explain, describe, list, practice, brainstorm, identify, and follow-up on a variety of questions that will keep students engaged and using their brains!