BIO
Tammy Erickson holds bachelor’s degrees in Marketing and Management, as well as a Minor in Music Business from Anderson University. She is also a certified K-12 Etiquette Consultant through The American School of Protocol. She has authored various works including a Biblically-based Etiquette curriculum, Bible studies, songs, press releases, and magazine articles. Her love of the written word further enabled her to serve as an editor for various books and publications. She loves to analyze great authors and find God’s message woven into their stories! And she loves to teach ‘how words come together’! She is a visual learner herself, so she endeavors to incorporate creativity into all of her lesson plans that will appeal to all three learning styles. Her passion for, and creative approach to, this class will fuel students’ love for learning.
When she isn’t developing new ways to analyze great books, she loves spending time with Jesus, studying and writing, leading worship, planning ministry events at the family’s barn, grabbing coffee with friends, hanging out with her two precious daughters, taking walks at the lake with her husband Matthew, and cuddling her 100 and 170-pound Bernese Mountain Dogs.
The Fallacy Detective Logic Course - Junior and/or High School
32 WEEK CLASS
Tutor Name: Tammy Erickson
Course Name: The Fallacy Detective Logic Course
Required Text:
The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning by Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn. Students will need the 2015 Edition
(includes spaces for students to write answers in the book.)
6.5×9 quality paperback, 264 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0974531571 or ISBN-10: 097453157X
Other Supplies:
1 Composition Notebook
2-pocket folder
Copy Fee: $15
Minimum Number of Students: 8
Maximum Number of Students: 18
Course Description/Outline/Objectives:
First of all – Why study fallacies? What is a fallacy? A fallacy is an error in logic – a place where someone has made a mistake in his thinking.
“A cloud is 90% water. A watermelon is 90% water. Therefore, since a plane can fly through a cloud, a plane can fly through a watermelon.”
In this course, your student will encounter common fallacies found in marketing, media, news, and propaganda. This will be a fun and practical class designed to give students the intellectual tools to recognize bad reasoning in the messaging around them.
Expected Weekly Time Commitment for Homework: 1 hour per week
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Prerequisites: None
Recommended Grade Level: 5th - 8th