Loaded Question Question Pack - Free Download

In the 1890s, French judges asked Alfred Dreyfus: "When did you start selling secrets?" The question assumed he was a spy. Any answer he gave made him look guilty. He was innocent - but the question had already decided otherwise.

Dreyfus spent years in prison on Devil's Island, convicted largely on the strength of questions that assumed his guilt before a single piece of real evidence was examined. The question did the work the proof never could.

That's the Loaded Question: an accusation wearing a question mark. The guilt is baked in before you open your mouth, so any answer convicts you. Your kids get hit with them all the time. In every "why are you ALWAYS causing trouble?" they'll ever be handed. This free Question Pack teaches them to catch it.

What's in the free Question Pack:

• Discussion and research questions that get kids arguing about the Alfred Dreyfus story - the productive kind of arguing
• A guided walk through how a judge's question - "When did you START selling our secrets?" - decided an innocent soldier's guilt before he could answer
• An answer sheet, so you can run it at the dinner table or in a classroom with zero prep

The deal, stated plainly

We teach people to spot manipulation, so it would be a bit rich to hide ours. This pack is free because it's the best advertisement we have. You hand over your email, we send the download, and every so often we'll email you about new comics, book and our card game. Unsubscribe the moment we get boring. 

One email. Check your spam folder - our goodies have a talent for landing there. 

What the free pack doesn't include

The fully illustrated Alfred Dreyfus story. The Duchess & Bruno comic. The Spot-the-Fallacy hunt through real ads and headlines. The Code Breaker, the Draw Your Own Comic page, and the hidden Gizmo kids go feral trying to find.

All of that lives in the Loaded Question Activity Pack - a 20-page printed booklet, rated 5.0 by teachers and parents on Etsy and TPT. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "My kids absolutely adore the characters and story! It reminds us of horrible histories. I haven't found anything like this pack before." - Sandra

It's one of 24. Every pack takes one fallacy, one historical disaster and one comic - and turns them into a kid who is very hard to fool.