# Slippery Slope Question Pack: Critical Thinking, Comic, Comprehension **Price:** $0.00 AUD **Seller:** TeachBuySell Seller **Year Levels:** noYearLevel **Subjects:** english ## Description (seller-submitted) It started with some girls acting strange. It ended with 19 innocent people hanged. The Slippery Slope is the claim that one small step will inevitably trigger a chain reaction ending in catastrophe. No evidence it will. Just fear that it might. You hear it everywhere: "If you stay up late once, you'll fail school." "If we allow one exception, the whole system collapses." "One biscuit and next thing you know - 200kg." One step doesn't lead to doom. But the Slippery Slope wants you to believe it does. This free expansion pack teaches you to spot when someone swaps evidence for a worst-case prediction - through a true historical story, real-life examples, and activities that feel nothing like homework. It's the companion to the full Slippery Slope 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 January 1692, two girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts started having fits. Betty Parris, aged nine, and her cousin Abigail Williams were shaking, screaming, and claiming invisible creatures were attacking them. The local doctor couldn't explain it. In Puritan New England, when medicine failed, the explanation was usually the same: the devil. Three women were accused of witchcraft. Salem's logic locked in immediately: if there are witches here, there must be more. Every strange look, unexplained illness, and bad harvest became evidence. The accusations spread. Between February 1692 and May 1693, more than 200 people were accused. Nineteen were hanged. One man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death with stones over two days after he refused to enter a plea. The slope only stopped when the accusations reached people of standing - including the Governor's wife. The court was dissolved. By then, Salem had destroyed itself. The Salem Witch Trials are one of the reasons we have "innocent until proven guilty" today. The pack closes with a two-word question to us… [truncated] ## Learning Needs growthMindset, personalDevelopment, socialSkills --- View on TeachBuySell: https://teachbuysell.com.au/l/699e1e00-c2bd-4ece-bc5a-8d635938e82d Marketplace: https://teachbuysell.com.au