Slippery Slope Question Pack - Free Download

In 1692, a few girls in Salem started acting strangely. The town decided that meant witches were everywhere. One accusation led to another, then another - until 19 innocent people were hanged.

Nobody stopped to ask for proof. The logic was simple and terrifying: one witch means more witches. If she's accused, her friends must be involved. If you defend her, you're probably one too. Each step felt reasonable. The destination was a massacre.

That's the Slippery Slope: claiming one small step will inevitably end in catastrophe - no evidence it will, just fear that it might. Your kids hear it constantly. At school. At home. In every "if I let you do this once, next thing you know..." 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 Salem witch trials - the productive kind of arguing
• A guided walk through how fear of the worst possible outcome turned a few girls' strange fits into nineteen hangings
• 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 Salem Witch Trials 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 Slippery Slope 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.