Quiver, the Brown Dragon e-book

Quiver, the Brown Dragon e-book

Book One in the Foul Lazy Dragons Chronicles

ByThor Carden

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I began working on these stories late last century as a way to teach logic and critical thinking to my children. Life got busy, and I did not finish the project. Early in this century, I ran across my writings and began to refurbish them to use to teach my grandchildren about logic and critical thinking. I wrote the first eight stories about informal fallacies, and they were successful. (i.e., my grandchildren liked them and did learn from them.) Now I have great-grandchildren who will soon be entering middle school, and I am expanding the project to include formal fallacies as well as informal fallacies. As written, I believe children will enjoy and benefit from all these stories. They stand on their own as a way for the children to develop their analytical skills. The target audience is middle school children. However, if you read the stories aloud to younger children, or read with them, I'm sure they will learn to analyze better as well. If you are one of those people who never outgrew enjoying fantasy, such as myself, these books are for you. My experience as a teacher in a homeschool tutoring center made me realize that these stories can be used as a basis for teaching a lot more in-depth. Using my experience as an instructional designer for the training department of an international corporation, I have included materials in a teacher's guide to help if you want to use these stories in that way. But it is not necessary to use the extra materials for the young readers to begin to grasp the rudiments of logic. Each dragon tells a specific kind of "lie". The Brown Dragon, Quiver, uses fallacies of ambiguity to cast her spells. The Blue Dragon, Track, uses fallacies of distraction to cast his spells. The dragons are defeated by a team of children and talking animals by exposing the nature of their fallacies. The young reader will begin to comprehend these various families of fallacies as they continue through the series of adventures. Each child is different, of course, so how in-depth you go, if at all, will certainly be a judgment call on your part. It is my hope and prayer that these books will bless many families by helping children learn to think more clearly and communicate their thoughts more articulately.

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Publication Date
Nov 15, 2025
Language
English
Category
Children's
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
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By (author): Thor Carden

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EPUB

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