Our Middle School Logic will help students recognize the fallacies they see every day, including the Red Herring, Ad Hominem attacks, the Straw Man, loaded questions, equivocation, circular reasoning, either-or, generalizations, analogies, propaganda, special pleading, slippery slope fallacies, and more. Dilbert, Calvin & Hobbes, Peanuts, and original cartoons illustrate many of the fallacies perfectly, and each lesson contains plenty of examples that make each fallacy easy to understand and deflect flawed or deceitful arguments and to think, debate, and argue well.
Course Length: 15 weeks
Grade: 7th-8th grade
This class meets Thursdays 9am - 10:30am.
Instructor: Adrianne Carlson
Cost $350
Materials: Finding Fallacies; Fallacy Toolbox; Dr. Ransom’s Bestiary for Adorable Fallacies
09/28/2023, 10/05/2023, 10/12/2023, 10/19/2023, 10/26/2023, 11/02/2023, 11/09/2023, 11/16/2023, 11/30/2023, 12/07/2023, 12/14/2023, 12/21/2023, 01/11/2024, 01/18/2024, 01/25/2024
Participants must currently be in grades 6 to 8.
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 10
Registration starts on 06/26/2023 and ends on 05/24/2024.
Please contact Kids of Grace Academy if you have any questions.