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Logic School
Grades 7 - 9 are known as the “Logic School” because this is the time that students begin their formal training in Logic and argumentation.
BCS recognizes that students at this age naturally display traits like:
- Being excited to learn, but needing to be challenged
- Judging, critiquing, debating
- Organizing and categorizing things and others
- Liking to “show off” their knowledge
- Wanting to know the why of things
- Thinking and acting as if more knowledgeable than adults
- Eager to to justify
Based on the student’s natural aptitude for these things, BCS works “with the grain” of the student by using teaching methods such as:
- Timelines, charts, maps
- Debates, persuasive reports
- Drama, reenactments, role-playing
- Evaluate, critique (with guidelines)
- Formal Logic
- Research projects
- Oral and written presentations
- Beginning Rhetoric
Curriculum
BCS utilizes a range of instructional material that has been vetted for excellence in fulfilling the mission of the school and to align with the observations about students this age outlined above. In general, BCS uses primary source materials throughout the humanities so that students may encounter history and literature directly. Textbooks are used sparingly and mostly in the sciences.
Here are some highlights of our curriculum (click the + sign for more information):
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