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Hoggirl
03-14-2008, 03:00 PM
I can't really tell how this is set up. Can someone help me out? If you use this, how do you schedule it?

Beth in Central TX
03-14-2008, 03:29 PM
I have the old edition; Art of Argument has 8 chapters with 32 lessons, 14 dialectic exercises, 5 dialogues, 6 cumulative fallacy worksheets, and 2 definition summaries for a total of 59 "exercises" or "lessons". I'm not sure if each one represents one full day's work, or if they could/should be done in combination. Either way it's not enough to make a full year's worth of work for one subject, in my opinion. My new plan is to use teach informal logic (Aof) and formal logic (TLI) together in either 8th or 9th grade.

Hoggirl
03-14-2008, 03:57 PM
ds will be in grade 6. We have always done "logic" one day a week. In earlier years this just meant logic workbooks. This year we have done logic workbooks and have dabbbled some with the Fallacy Detective and Thinking Toolbox. This looked a bit more straight-forward than those two (though I like the Bluedorn books). I only want to do "logic" one day a week anyway. Thanks (as always!) for your help.