The Logic Stage

Grades 7-8 (First & Second Forms)

 
 

Students in First and Second Forms are in the Logic Stage. Students in the Logic stage participate in Socratic discussions with their classmates and teacher by asking and answering questions with supporting facts in order to foster critical thinking.

Students in Logic School use their grammar skills to express logical thought in both oral and written form; they apply basic arithmetic skills to solve abstract problems; and they begin to make connections and comparisons between concepts. In short, they learn to apply and use the knowledge they have acquired in previous grades to answer increasingly difficult questions.

Students begin a formal study of logic in 1st form to develop their ability to correctly reason. They do all of these things as they continue to make connections across subjects, use all of their skills in every class, and see the Bible as foundational and the standard of truth across all subjects. The Logic School and Rhetoric School comprise the Hunter Upper School.

What Your Child Will Do

  • Participate in enriching field trips

  • Read excerpts from classics in Latin class 

  • Write research reports to support a thesis and develop essay writing skills

  • Participate in Socratic discussions 

  • Discuss and debate topics while studying Greek and Roman classics

  • Research and write a symposium paper

  • Develop algebra skills using Saxon Math

  • Develop formal logic skills beginning  in 1st form

  • Memorize and recite Bible scripture

Books Your Child May Read

  • Billy Budd

  • Black Ships Before Troy 

  • Captains Courageous

  • Edith Hamilton’s Mythology

  • Herotodus’ Histories

  • Ivanhoe

  • Pilgrim’s Progress

  • Plutarch’s Rise and Fall of Athens

  • Robinson Crusoe

  • The Hobbit

  • The Iliad

  • The Lord of the Rings

  • The Odyssey

  • The Poems of John Donne

  • The Poems of Williams Shakespeare

  • The Poems of Williams Wordsworth

  • The Screwtape Letters

  • The Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • The Wind in the Willows

  • Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War

  • Watership Down

Our students learn to think logically, speak clearly, and write eloquently. At the completion of the Grammar and Logic stages of learning, students are well equipped to transition to the Rhetoric stage of learning (grades 9-12), where much fruit is borne from the watering and tending in the previous two stages of learning.