# Loaded Question Question Pack: Critical Thinking, Comic, Comprehension **Price:** $0.00 AUD **Seller:** TeachBuySell Seller **Year Levels:** noYearLevel **Subjects:** english ## Description (seller-submitted) Alfred Dreyfus's judges never asked whether he had sold military secrets. They asked when he had started - and any answer confirmed what the question had already decided. A loaded question is a question with a false or unverified assumption baked into the framing. "Have you stopped lying?" assumes lying happened. "When did you first start selling our secrets?" assumes secrets were sold. The question isn't asking for information - it's announcing a conclusion and asking the target to respond within it. The trap is elegant: answering looks like you're accepting the assumption. Refusing to answer looks like you have something to hide. There's no clean exit. You hear it everywhere: "Have you stopped lying to me yet?" "When did you first realise you weren't cut out for this?" "Why do you always have to make things so difficult?" The verdict was in the question. The answer was never the point. This free expansion pack teaches you to ask "what is this question assuming - and has that assumption been established?" - through a true historical story, real-life examples, and activities that feel nothing like homework. It's the companion to the full Loaded Question Activity Pack and a free preview of the upcoming book, 24 Fallacies and the Historical Disasters That Followed. ⭐ Rated 5.0 by people who now win arguments THE STORY INSIDE In 1894, a memo was found suggesting someone in the French army had been selling military secrets to Germany. The army needed someone to blame. Without solid evidence, they settled on Alfred Dreyfus - a French army officer who was Jewish, which made him a convenient target in a military culture rife with antisemitism. His trial was less an investigation than a performance. Judges asked questions like "When did you first start selling our secrets?" - questions that assumed guilt before a word of evidence was presented. Any answer Dreyfus gave confirmed the thing the question had already decided. He couldn't say "no." The question hadn't offered tha… [truncated] ## Learning Needs growthMindset, personalDevelopment, socialSkills --- View on TeachBuySell: https://teachbuysell.com.au/l/699e1eb1-bfa3-4ae9-9ad6-4696ed466dc7 Marketplace: https://teachbuysell.com.au