Welcome to Our Homeschool Logic Curriculum

Have you ever felt there was something wrong with a conclusion, but couldn’t figure out what it was? Would you like to keep your child from falling for every commercial they hear? This fifteen-week Logic course holds the keys to decoding the deceptions that sway opinion on a daily basis. Students will learn to identify faulty logic in ads, arguments, and real-world situations. Equip your student (and yourself!) to spot the fallacies.

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Logic

Length: 15 weeks
Content type: Text based
Grades: 7–12

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Getting Started with Our Homeschool Logic Curriculum

Through the written instruction, examples, assignments, and quizzes contained in this homeschool logic curriculum, teens learn to analyze statements, advertisements, and arguments and to identify faulty reasoning contained in each. This helps students to reason through the fallacies that are sometimes contained in what they are exposed to in the world around them.

Overview

  • 15 weeks, 4 days a week
  • Includes text based lessons, assignments, and quizzes
  • Grades: 7–12

Supplies Needed

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com; journal for notetaking and research.

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan and lessons file. Start with the Day 1 reading assignment. Follow the instructions each day on the lesson plan and check them off when completed.

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Course Sample for Our Homeschool Logic Curriculum

Let’s begin our study of Logic with one of the informal fallacies most of us have had some experience with. Please turn to a blank page in your Logic notebook and copy the following statements made by Flash, our resident expert in faulty logic:

  1. “You should definitely give me an A on this assignment. I’ve had the flu all week, and I crawled to the computer to submit it. I can hardly make it back to bed.”
  2. “You should all pitch in and buy me lunch. My poor dog has been lost for a week, and I’m worried sick about him. He can’t hear very well, and he’s afraid of strangers.”
  3. “The manager should hire me for this job. If I don’t get it, I won’t be able to take that trip to Aruba I’ve been planning on, and my children will go hungry.”

Each of these examples uses the same type of bad reasoning. Based on your experience and background knowledge, try to find the deceit or faulty logic in each example. What do you notice about the evidence or justification presented in each example? What just doesn’t sound right to you?

Jot down a few notes about the bad reasoning you think these examples have in common. Don’t worry if you’re not sure! Just study each example and look for reasoning that doesn’t make sense to you. It’s a great idea to talk this over with others if you’d like. We’ll discuss the flaws in Flash’s reasoning in the next session. His statements are all based on the same informal fallacy.

To view a full sample of this class, click here.

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Transcript Information for Our Homeschool Logic Curriculum

This homeschool logic curriculum counts as a philosophy or social studies credit. Homeschool students who thoroughly complete the fifteen-unit logic course may earn 0.5 academic credit.

*Please be informed of your state’s academic requirements.

 

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Course Outline for Our Homeschool Logic Curriculum

Fifteen homeschool logic curriculum lessons equip teens to recognize and respond to deceptive and faulty reasoning techniques.

  • Week One – Introduction
  • Week Two – Appeal to Pity
  • Week Three – Appeal to Fear
  • Week Four – Appeal to the People
  • Week Five – Red Herrings
  • Week Six – Ad Hominem
  • Week Seven – Tu Quoque
  • Week Eight – Snob Appeal
  • Week Nine – Appeal to Faulty Authority
  • Week Ten – Straw Man
  • Week Eleven – Begging the Question
  • Week Twelve – Appeal to Ignorance
  • Week Thirteen – Equivocation
  • Week Fourteen – Hasty Generalization
  • Week Fifteen – Quoting out of Context

For a printable course outline, click here.

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More About Our Homeschool Logic Curriculum

This 15-week homeschool logic curriculum provides an introduction to a number of informal fallacies encountered in everyday life. Recognizing and responding to this deceptive and faulty reasoning helps prepare teens to communicate effectively and persuasively, while equipping them to avoid falling prey to deception.

Homeschool middle school and high school students compile a logic notebook and respond to examples of a new fallacy each week. Through a variety of lessons divided into daily assignments, students learn to analyze statements, questions, advertisements, and arguments and to identify faulty reasoning contained in each. Homeschool teens study examples, learn definitions, and apply their new knowledge and understanding by finding examples in the world around them. Weekly quizzes are provided to assess their understanding. Since the quizzes review facts that have been studied in prior lessons, it is best to do the homeschool logic curriculum lessons in consecutive order.

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Quick Start

1.  Bookmark the course for easy access during instruction.

2. Click “View Lesson Plan” and organize as desired (on computer desktop or in a printed format). 

3.  Gather necessary resources as listed in the lesson plan.

4.  Click “Go to Class Lessons” and get started.

5.  Enjoy the course!

6.  Utilize Applecore or your own record keeping system throughout the course.

7.  Print a certificate of completion.

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