Beverly Pearl

Logical Fallacies Beverly Pearl

Danny finds an abandoned baby crow and takes care of it. The crow, now attached to Danny, follows him to school every day. The other students jokingly refer to the crow as "Danny's Dog". Logical Fallacies begin to unfold when a bully pushes Danny down. Through a variety of logically fallacious exchanges, Danny is blamed and punished for starting the fight. During a second encounter with the bully, "Danny's Dog" catches the attention of a teacher with his loud cawing, in time for her to see the lie unfold. The teacher decides to teach the children about what logical fallacies are and how to spot them. The story is presented as a poem that shares the experiences of the fictional Grove St. School children as they learn about logical fallacies. Illustrations include speech bubbles representing some of the fallacies as they may manifest among school children. Definition of a 'Fallacy': "A misconception resulting from a flaw in reasoning, or a trick or illusion in thoughts, that often succeeds in obfuscating facts/truth." From: Logical Fallacies, https: //www.logicalfallacies.org/