Name: James Madison Critical Thinking Course - Timberdoodle Co - Homeschool Thinking Skills
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James Madison Critical Thinking Course

Download sample pages from James Madison Critical Thinking Course (PDF) Typically counted as 1/2 credit for high school students. James Madison Critical Thinking Course Engage your teen in captivating crime-related scenarios and give him the necessary critical thinking skills with the James Madison Critical Thinking Course. Superbly easy for any homeschool family to use. The step-by-step, self-instructional lessons and activities are straightforward and applicable across your teen's entire curriculum. The James Madison Critical Thinking Course Uses mini-mysteries and a fictional detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. Each chapter of the James Madison Critical Thinking Course focuses on various thinking skills and leads your teen gradually into complicated analytical skills. Massive in scope, the course teaches more than sixty-five skills and concepts related to critical thinking. Your student will learn to distinguish a fact from an opinion, recognize ambiguity in a statement, evaluate arguments as valid or not, and assess common fallacies in reasoning. Everything in a typical introductory logic course is included in the James Madison Critical Thinking Course. Pages are perforated for easy removal and are reproducible for your home use. The Instruction Guide (sold separately) provides answers to the exercises and the quizzes but virtually no additional information. Features Topics Include: Interpret and apply complex texts, instructions, illustrations, etc. Recognize and clarify issues, claims, arguments, and explanations. Distinguish: conclusions, premises (reasons), arguments, explanations, assumptions (stated/unstated), issues, claims (statements), suppositions, unstated conclusions, unstated premises, and implications. Recognize ambiguity and unclearness in claims, arguments, and explanations. Distinguish necessary and sufficient conditions. Describe the structure or outline of arguments and explanations: confirmation, disconfirmation. Evaluate whether an inductive argument is strong or weak. Evaluate claims and arguments in terms of criteria such as: consistency, relevance, support. Evaluate analogical arguments and inductive generalization arguments in terms of criteria, such as: the greater the number of similarities between the conclusion and the premises regarding the sample, the stronger the argument. Assess the relevance of claims to other claims, and to questions, descriptions, representations, procedures, information, directives, rules, principles, etc. Evaluate whether a deductive argument is valid or invalid (logical form): categorical, truth-functional, and semantic/definitional. Distinguish supporting, conflicting, compatible, and equivalent claims, arguments, explanations, descriptions, representations, etc. Identify and avoid errors in reasoning, informal fallacies: begging the question, equivocation, post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after that, therefore, because of that), false dilemma/false dichotomy fallacy (line drawing fallacy, perfectionist fallacy), smoke screen/red herring/rationalizing, hasty generalization, appeal to ridicule/sarcasm, ad hominem fallacy (personal attack, poisoning the well), appeal to illegitimate authority, loaded question, evidence surrogate, stereotyping, appeal to consequences (favorable or unfavorable), "wishful thinking", genetic fallacy, biased generalization, anecdotal evidence. Discern whether pairs of claims are consistent, contrary, contradictory, or paradoxical. Topics Include: Interpret and apply complex texts, instructions, illustrations, etc. Recognize and clarify issues, claims, arguments, and explanations. Distinguish: conclusions, premises (reasons), arguments, explanations, assumptions (stated/unstated), issues, claims (statements), suppositions, unstated conclusions, unstated premises, and implications. Recognize ambiguity and unclearness in claims, arguments, and explanations. Distinguish necessary and sufficient conditions. Describe the structure or outline of arguments and explanations: confirmation, disconfirmation. Evaluate whether an inductive argument is strong or weak. Evaluate claims and arguments in terms of criteria such as: consistency, relevance, support. Evaluate analogical arguments and inductive generalization arguments in terms of criteria, such as: the greater the number of similarities between the conclusion and the premises regarding the sample, the stronger the argument. Assess the relevance of claims to other claims, and to questions, descriptions, representations, procedures, information, directives, rules, principles, etc. Evaluate whether a deductive argument is valid or invalid (logical form): categorical, truth-functional, and semantic/definitional. Distinguish supporting, conflicting, compatible, and equivalent claims, arguments, explanations, descriptions, representations, etc. Identify and avoid errors in reasoning, informal fallacies: begging the question, equivocation, post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after that, therefore, because of that), false dilemma/false dichotomy fallacy (line drawing fallacy, perfectionist fallacy), smoke screen/red herring/rationalizing, hasty generalization, appeal to ridicule/sarcasm, ad hominem fallacy (personal attack, poisoning the well), appeal to illegitimate authority, loaded question, evidence surrogate, stereotyping, appeal to consequences (favorable or unfavorable), "wishful thinking", genetic fallacy, biased generalization, anecdotal evidence. Discern whether pairs of claims are consistent, contrary, contradictory, or paradoxical.Typically counted as 1 credit for high school students. Answers are located in the back of this book. Publisher's Information Authors: William O'Meara, Ph.D and Daniel Flage, Ph.D Pages: 544, perforated Activities: Sixty-five critical thinking related skills and concepts Black & White: Yes Binding: Paperback Copyright: 2011 ISBN: 9781601441454 Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co Printed In: USA Typical High School Credits Earned: 1/2 credit critical thinking Faith-Based: No Awards and Endorsements: Cathy Duffy - 101 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum review by Flanders Family Homelife ”A student who sticks with the course through the end should be well-grounded in the processes that constitute critical thinking...” Read the Review

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Download sample pages from <a href="http://www.criticalthinking.com/media/blfa_files/05705.pdf" target="new">James Madison Critical Thinking Course (PDF)</a> 
Typically counted as 1/2 credit for high school students.
 
James Madison Critical Thinking Course
Engage your teen in captivating crime-related scenarios and give him the necessary critical thinking skills with the James Madison Critical Thinking Course. Superbly easy for any homeschool family to use. The step-by-step, self-instructional lessons and activities are straightforward and applicable across your teen's entire curriculum.
 
The James Madison Critical Thinking Course Uses mini-mysteries and a fictional detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. Each chapter of the James Madison Critical Thinking Course focuses on various thinking skills and leads your teen gradually into complicated analytical skills. 
 
Massive in scope, the course teaches more than sixty-five skills and concepts related to critical thinking. Your student will learn to distinguish a fact from an opinion, recognize ambiguity in a statement, evaluate arguments as valid or not, and assess common fallacies in reasoning.
 
Everything in a typical introductory logic course is included in the James Madison Critical Thinking Course. Pages are perforated for easy removal and are reproducible for your home use. <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="http://www.timberdoodle.com/James_Madison_Critical_Thinking_Course_Guide_p/410-402.htm" target="_blank">The Instruction Guide (sold separately)</a> provides answers to the exercises and the quizzes but virtually no additional information.
 
 
 
 
Features Topics Include: 
<li>Interpret and apply complex texts, instructions, illustrations, etc.</li>
<li>Recognize and clarify issues, claims, arguments, and explanations.</li>
<li>Distinguish: conclusions, premises (reasons), arguments, explanations, assumptions (stated/unstated), issues, claims (statements), suppositions, unstated conclusions, unstated premises, and implications.</li>
<li>Recognize ambiguity and unclearness in claims, arguments, and explanations.</li>
<li>Distinguish necessary and sufficient conditions.</li>
<li>Describe the structure or outline of arguments and explanations: confirmation, disconfirmation.</li>
<li>Evaluate whether an inductive argument is strong or weak.</li>
<li>Evaluate claims and arguments in terms of criteria such as: consistency, relevance, support.</li>
<li>Evaluate analogical arguments and inductive generalization arguments in terms of criteria, such as: the greater the number of similarities between the conclusion and the premises regarding the sample, the stronger the argument.</li>
<li>Assess the relevance of claims to other claims, and to questions, descriptions, representations, procedures, information, directives, rules, principles, etc.</li>
<li>Evaluate whether a deductive argument is valid or invalid (logical form): categorical, truth-functional, and semantic/definitional.</li>
<li>Distinguish supporting, conflicting, compatible, and equivalent claims, arguments, explanations, descriptions, representations, etc.</li>
<li>Identify and avoid errors in reasoning, informal fallacies: begging the question, equivocation, post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after that, therefore, because of that), false dilemma/false dichotomy fallacy (line drawing fallacy, perfectionist fallacy), smoke screen/red herring/rationalizing, hasty generalization, appeal to ridicule/sarcasm, ad hominem fallacy (personal attack, poisoning the well), appeal to illegitimate authority, loaded question, evidence surrogate, stereotyping, appeal to consequences (favorable or unfavorable), "wishful thinking", genetic fallacy, biased generalization, anecdotal evidence.</li>
<li>Discern whether pairs of claims are consistent, contrary, contradictory, or paradoxical.</li>
 
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Topics Include:
Interpret and apply complex texts, instructions, illustrations, etc.
Recognize and clarify issues, claims, arguments, and explanations.
Distinguish: conclusions, premises (reasons), arguments, explanations, assumptions (stated/unstated), issues, claims (statements), suppositions, unstated conclusions, unstated premises, and implications.
Recognize ambiguity and unclearness in claims, arguments, and explanations.
Distinguish necessary and sufficient conditions.
Describe the structure or outline of arguments and explanations: confirmation, disconfirmation.
Evaluate whether an inductive argument is strong or weak.
Evaluate claims and arguments in terms of criteria such as: consistency, relevance, support.
Evaluate analogical arguments and inductive generalization arguments in terms of criteria, such as: the greater the number of similarities between the conclusion and the premises regarding the sample, the stronger the argument.
Assess the relevance of claims to other claims, and to questions, descriptions, representations, procedures, information, directives, rules, principles, etc.
Evaluate whether a deductive argument is valid or invalid (logical form): categorical, truth-functional, and semantic/definitional.
Distinguish supporting, conflicting, compatible, and equivalent claims, arguments, explanations, descriptions, representations, etc.
Identify and avoid errors in reasoning, informal fallacies: begging the question, equivocation, post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after that, therefore, because of that), false dilemma/false dichotomy fallacy (line drawing fallacy, perfectionist fallacy), smoke screen/red herring/rationalizing, hasty generalization, appeal to ridicule/sarcasm, ad hominem fallacy (personal attack, poisoning the well), appeal to illegitimate authority, loaded question, evidence surrogate, stereotyping, appeal to consequences (favorable or unfavorable), "wishful thinking", genetic fallacy, biased generalization, anecdotal evidence.
Discern whether pairs of claims are consistent, contrary, contradictory, or paradoxical.Typically counted as 1 credit for high school students.
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Answers are located in the back of this book.
Publisher's Information Authors: William O'Meara, Ph.D and Daniel Flage, Ph.D Pages: 544, perforated Activities: Sixty-five critical thinking related skills and concepts Black &amp; White: Yes Binding: Paperback Copyright: 2011 ISBN: 9781601441454 Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co Printed In: USA Typical High School Credits Earned: 1/2 credit critical thinking Faith-Based: No <img src="//cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1994/4551/files/ribbon_large.gif?v=1500415094" alt="">Awards and Endorsements: Cathy Duffy - 101 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum
 
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