Logic School 6th-8th
LOGIC STAGE
In the Logic Stage, students want to know the “why behind what they are learning and they begin to explore their capacity to reason. Students take the facts mastered in the Grammar Stage and learn how to organize and apply them, build cogent arguments, and challenge ideas in an open forum. In order to utilize these developing skills, students are expected to think logically and discuss actively in their classes, preparing them for deep and meaningful exploration in all subjects within a Christian world-view. The most important answer to the “why” question steers students to the ultimate Truth in the person of Jesus Christ. We seek to train students’ hearts and minds to love the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, emphasizing the love of God and the love of others as the answer to how students should live out each day.
WHAT YOUR STUDENT WILL BE DOING IN LOGIC SCHOOL
• Write well-structured paragraphs and papers
• Engage the wonder, mastery, integration approach to the sciences and begin formal science labs
• Understanding the how and the why behind mathematical computations
• Study history, literature, and theology as one integrated whole
• Discuss worldviews demonstrated in the literature they read
• Study art from a Christian worldview from Creation to the present, learning 64 pieces of art along with the corresponding art movement
• Continue the study of Latin and English grammar
• Recite great poetry
• Draw conclusions from a series of facts
• Identify formal logic and logical fallacies
• Learn the difference between a logical and emotional response
• Draw and label a map of the entire world by heart
• Participate in art class and the Academy choir
• Begin learning through Socratic teaching
• Socratic teaching is a guided question and answer form that is highly effective in teaching students to think. The teacher typically asks a broad “opinion” question that seems to have no right answer. Then, as the students attempt to answer, the teacher guides them through the use of logic toward thoughtful and defensible conclusions. While this seems straightforward, Socratic teaching is an art. It takes time, which is why most schools do not practice it. We find that students at this stage are ready to use their minds in a way that develops independent thinking, rather than simply repeating information they are given.
In the Logic Stage, students want to know the “why behind what they are learning and they begin to explore their capacity to reason. Students take the facts mastered in the Grammar Stage and learn how to organize and apply them, build cogent arguments, and challenge ideas in an open forum. In order to utilize these developing skills, students are expected to think logically and discuss actively in their classes, preparing them for deep and meaningful exploration in all subjects within a Christian world-view. The most important answer to the “why” question steers students to the ultimate Truth in the person of Jesus Christ. We seek to train students’ hearts and minds to love the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, emphasizing the love of God and the love of others as the answer to how students should live out each day.
WHAT YOUR STUDENT WILL BE DOING IN LOGIC SCHOOL
• Write well-structured paragraphs and papers
• Engage the wonder, mastery, integration approach to the sciences and begin formal science labs
• Understanding the how and the why behind mathematical computations
• Study history, literature, and theology as one integrated whole
• Discuss worldviews demonstrated in the literature they read
• Study art from a Christian worldview from Creation to the present, learning 64 pieces of art along with the corresponding art movement
• Continue the study of Latin and English grammar
• Recite great poetry
• Draw conclusions from a series of facts
• Identify formal logic and logical fallacies
• Learn the difference between a logical and emotional response
• Draw and label a map of the entire world by heart
• Participate in art class and the Academy choir
• Begin learning through Socratic teaching
• Socratic teaching is a guided question and answer form that is highly effective in teaching students to think. The teacher typically asks a broad “opinion” question that seems to have no right answer. Then, as the students attempt to answer, the teacher guides them through the use of logic toward thoughtful and defensible conclusions. While this seems straightforward, Socratic teaching is an art. It takes time, which is why most schools do not practice it. We find that students at this stage are ready to use their minds in a way that develops independent thinking, rather than simply repeating information they are given.
