# Straw Man Argument Activity Pack | Critical Thinking Activities **Price:** $12.95 AUD **Seller:** TeachBuySell Seller **Year Levels:** noYearLevel **Subjects:** english ## Description (seller-submitted) "So you want me to become a slave to the system, working until I'm so old I drop dead, all because you can't manage our money?!" Bruno said: "The bills are piling up. I need you to get a job." That's a Straw Man. Someone takes what you actually said, twists it into an exaggerated, ridiculous version of itself, and then argues against that - leaving your real point untouched on the floor. They make your position sound extreme, unreasonable, or absurd, knock down the distortion they just built, and act like they've won. They haven't won. They haven't even engaged with what you said. They've just attacked a stuffed dummy made of straw and walked away victorious. The Straw Man shows up everywhere. "I can't hang out tonight, I'm really tired." - "So you never want to spend time with us and don't care about our friendship?" "I'm concerned about too much spending." - "So you don't care about creating jobs and you want our economy to collapse?" "Could you cover both sides of this issue?" - "Why do you want us to give equal time to lies and misinformation?" The real argument is gone. What's left is a fake version that's much easier to beat. This 20-page printed activity pack teaches kids to spot the switch - to recognise when someone has stopped arguing against what was actually said and started fighting a fake version instead. Through an illustrated true story from history, a funny comic, and hands-on activities featuring Duchess (the cat) and Bruno (the dog), learners don't just memorise a definition. They understand the fallacy well enough to catch it in the wild. ⭐ 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 Bertrand Russell and the British conscription debate of 1916 - and how war hawks used a Straw Man to try to silence one of the 20th century's sharpest minds. When Britain began forcing men into military service during Worl… [truncated] ## Learning Needs personalDevelopment, growthMindset, socialSkills --- View on TeachBuySell: https://teachbuysell.com.au/l/6897141f-d961-46a3-8e43-6ef283bfd704 Marketplace: https://teachbuysell.com.au