Specific Question about Logic Curriculum

[sltress]

We will be finishing Fallacy Detective and Thinking Toolbox this year for 8th grade. When I started looking for 9th grade logic curriculum I learned a few things: 

 

1) what we are studying now is informal logic and now need to do formal logic 

2) two types of formal logic are traditional and modern

3) traditional logic sees logic as a language

4) modern logic sees logic as mathematics

 

I like the idea of logic as a language, western thought as it’s origins, and based on Christian thought. I know that Memoria Press fits the bill but, oh my is it hard to follow…and I have a Bachelors Degree! My poor 9th grader!

 

From what I can tell Classical Academic Press' "Discovery of Deduction" and Nance’s "Introduction/Intermediate Logic" both follow the “logic as mathematics†train of thought. 

Is there any other logic program that is similar to Memoria Press but not so complicated (and dull as I have heard some say)?

I saw Logic 101 by Scott Sullivan but I don’t know whether it follows the language or mathematics train, plus it is so new and so I am not able to read reviews so I am hesitant. 

I would like a DVD option.

 

So I don’t know if I am being too picky and should just pick the curriculum I think will get done and not worry if it is language or mathematics based, or if there are specific reasons to choose one over the other.

[nansk]

There is also Peter Kreeft's Socratic Logic (no DVD).

 

According to the WTM, though, the study of logic should be completed by the 8th grade, and the 9th grader should begin the study of rhetoric.

Edited February 25, 2016 by nansk