Logic -- A Workbook for Arguments -- WWYD?

[Kate in Arabia]

I have A Workbook for Arguments for my ds. I don't think it alone will equate, work-wise, with a full credit or even half a credit. I have three options here:

 

1. Use the book but don't list it anywhere, consider it just a part of "general education" that doesn't need to be accounted for in an official capacity.

 

2. List it as part of another course -- English? I have separate credits for English writing/grammar and literature, so that's a possibility if it could fit there topically.

 

3. Keep it separate, consider it a "quarter credit"; choose other logic curricula over the subsequent years and group them all together as one credit for logic.

 

WWYD?

[beachnut]

For my 9th grader, I used the following 2 curriculum & awarded him .5 credit in informal logic:

 

1. A Workbook for Arguments (Anthony Weston)

2. The Art of Argument: An Introduction to the Informal Fallacies (Classical Academic Press)

[Candid]

I combined my writing and logic materials this year into a credit that I called Rhetoric and Logic. I used:

Critical Thinking 2

The Rulebook for Arguments

The Lively Art of Writing

 

My ds wrote 2 one page essays a week some geared at the topics in the books he was reading.

 

I counted this as one credit.

[Kate in Arabia]

Hmm.. thanks for the responses. I'm still not sure what I'll do here, I don't want to add any more work/books at this point because I think ds has a pretty full load as is.

 

I need to think about it some more, I guess..

 

Thanks again!

[Kate in Arabia]

Sorry, double post.

[klmama]

I listed informal logic as part of the English credit.

[Kate in Arabia]

Yes, I think that's what I'm going with. I called it "English 1: Rhetoric and Composition". It will cover writing, grammar, vocab and critical thinking/logic. Looking at the table of contents of the Arguments book, this seemed like the most appropriate place to put it.

 

We go through an umbrella school, so perhaps they will have stronger thoughts about how it should be worded, lol.

 

Thanks again.