# Ad Hominem Attack Activity Pack | Critical Thinking Activities **Price:** $12.95 AUD **Seller:** TeachBuySell Seller **Year Levels:** noYearLevel **Subjects:** english ## Description (seller-submitted) "You're just saying that because you're a nutter!" That's not a counterargument. That's a shutdown. Someone has a point - maybe a good one - so instead of addressing what they said, the other person goes straight for the person saying it. "He's a liar." "She's a crackpot." "Why would anyone listen to him?" The label lands, the crowd shifts, and suddenly no one's thinking about the actual argument anymore. The message gets buried under the insult. That's the Ad Hominem Attack. Also known as mud-slinging. Ad hominem is Latin for "against the person" - and instead of engaging with the argument, they engage with you. Your past. Your reputation. Your character. Your credibility. And once a label sticks, it doesn't matter what you say next. You've been silenced by just a few words. Your learners see this everywhere - in the schoolyard, on social media, in politics, in comment sections. "You can't trust her article - didn't she fail that class last year?" "Why are we listening to him? Everyone knows he's a conspiracy nut." It happens online in seconds, and most people don't even recognise it as a logical fallacy. They just stop listening. This 20-page printed activity pack teaches kids to spot when someone's attacking the person instead of the argument - and, crucially, to ask the right question when it happens to them: what are they trying to stop me from saying? ⭐ Rated 5.0 on Etsy and TPT THE STORY INSIDE Every pack starts with a true story from history - not a paragraph in a textbook, but a fully illustrated, multi-page narrative. This pack features the story of Alexander Solzhenitsyn - the man who tried to expose the Soviet Union's brutal secret prison camps, and the government's weapon of choice to stop him: not facts, not evidence, just a relentless barrage of personal attacks. Solzhenitsyn had lived through the Soviet gulag system. He knew what was happening inside those camps, and he wrote about it. The response from the Soviet government was immediate. They didn'… [truncated] ## Learning Needs growthMindset, personalDevelopment, socialSkills --- View on TeachBuySell: https://teachbuysell.com.au/l/66f5c827-1fcb-45b3-a009-085ba202ea34 Marketplace: https://teachbuysell.com.au