In a relativelydistant future, in an unnamed developing country, three boys living in a garbage dump discover a discarded bag, leading them on an adventure that uncovers political corruption and changes their lives forever. Interview with andy mulligan created by book nut view on book nut share. Trash by andrew andy mulligan, a british theatre director, drama teacher and now novelist is set most likely in the philippines. See the progress your students make while they are reading. Inside youll find 30 daily lessons, 20 fun activities, 180 multiple choice questions, 60 short essay questions, 20 essay questions, quizzeshomework assignments, tests, and more. The tale of 3 dumpsite boys, raphael, gardo and rat, who live on the trash heaps of behala and sort through it, hoping to find anything they can sell or recycle. Trash by andy mulligan vocabulary flashcards quizlet. Andy mulligan was brought up in the south of london. Worksheets and no prep teaching resources literature units author theme units. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, sorting it, breathing it, sleeping on it. Trash by andy mulligan detailed reading questions by m walsh. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, s. Jose angelico is a man of mystery in andy mulligan s novel, trash.
Trash, written by andy mulligan, is a novel that portrays a country in the grip of corruption and injustice. A books cover is one of the ways a publisher sells a book. Students work through five guided journal responses as they read the book. However this changes when the boys find something in the trash. The following video is the tale of a boy who works in dandora dumpsite, which is located in nairobi, africa. The trash by andy mulligan lesson plan contains a variety of teaching materials that cater to all learning styles. Raphael lives with his aunt and various family members on the behala dump in an unspecified city and country. Extract from trash may not be used by users in the usa and its dependencies, the philippines or canada. Trash worksheets and literature unit by andy mulligan grades 69 daily reading journal go beyond a simple book report. Esl activities and interactive worksheets for teachers to use. Free trash worksheets and literature unit for teachers activities.
He used the places that are familiar to us filipinos. Dec 22, 2011 raphael is a dumpsite boy in a thirdworld country. He taught english and drama in brazil, vietnam, the philippines, and the uk. Set in the near future in an unnamed country, it follows the adventures of three boys who take turns narrating the story. When the police show up to question them, even offer them money, the boys decide. This set of readytogo worksheets will help you teach the wonderful novel trash by andy mulligan. Our collection is growing every day with the help of many teachers. Author andy mulligan theme unit literature book units by andy mulligan trash grades 69 request a different book by andy mulligan enter your name. He has taught english and drama in britain, india, brazil, and the philippines.
He worked as a theatre director for ten years before. The resources included are detailed reading questions with full answer key. Now a major film by stephen daldry and richard curtis. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, sorting it, breathing it, sl. I know, today is supposed to be blogger interviews, but i spaced signing up for one. Despite that, it was mulligan s travels to asia that sparked a new path in teaching. The boys, raphael, gardo and rat, discover little bits and pieces about jose as they strive to uncover the secret of his murder. Click on popout icon or print icon to worksheet to print or download.
When they learn that the bags owner was killed by the police, raphael. Mulligan said he was inspired by the dump he saw when he visited manila in the philippines. Find the quotes you need in andy mulligan s trash, sortable by theme, character, or chapter. Interview with andy mulligan created by bookbag view on bookbag share. Tes provides a range of primary and secondary school teaching resources including lesson plans, worksheets and student activities for all curriculum subjects. Trash lesson plans include daily lessons, fun activities, essay topics, testquiz questions, and more. Trash chapter comprehension questions teaching resources. Their lives are rugged, poverty stricken, unadventurous. Your life is the hook you carry, there in your hand, turning the trash. Revise unseen fiction is an examfocused, studentfriendly workbook filled with activities designed to consolidate your students skills and prepare them for their gcse english language exam.
About andy mulligan andy mulligan was born and raised in south london. The kids in the dumpsites used to call her sister, but they are now calling her mother. Mulligan, a 2011 trash, david fickling books, random house, london. The greedy rich treat the poor like trash all over the city. Explain whether they were static or dynamic characters.
Andy mulligan has written a powerful story about unthinkable povertyand the kind of hope. Raphael, a fourteen year old dumpsite boy narrates this part of the story and it entails many interesting ideas about the behala dumpsite. Im not saying that these are great lessons, cos theyre not. Nov 28, 2017 trash by andy mulligan trash chapter summaries to help you with your studies. Displaying all worksheets related to reading comprehension year 7trash andy mulligan. Do something the novel trash is more than just a fictional story about some young boys, but it is a representation of a world which is suffering from poverty and struggling to survive. The book is told from the perspective of various characters but our first narrator and where the heart of the story lies is with raphael. Welcome to my blog, here youll be able to find chapter summaries including important quotes from the book trash. Then one unluckylucky day, the world turns upside down. This set of lesson plans consists of approximately 171 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials. Show the students the cover of andy mulligans novel trash then give them the reading a book cover worksheet 5. Character analysis of trash by christopher shen on prezi.
This 36page guide for trash by andy mulligan includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 33 chapters, as well as several more indepth sections of expert. Trash by andy mulligan trash chapter summaries to help. Daily reading journal go beyond a simple book report. Trash by andy mulligan february 6, 2011 by texaslibrarian the skinny. Tes global ltd is registered in england company no 02017289 with its registered office at 26 red lion square london wc1r 4hq.
The worksheet poses questions that will help students closely examine novel covers and aid discussion on the ways that images and text combine to layer meaning. Trash themes from litcharts the creators of sparknotes. Summary of part 3 trash minju 7d part 3 of the book starts with sister olivia, who is called a temporary house mother at behala mission school. In this unit, we will study the novel trash by andy mulligan. A group of fourteenyearold boys, who make a living picking garbage from the outskirts of a large city, finds something special and mysterious that brings terrifying consequences. Create a strong, specific claim and support it with concrete details from the novel. To ask other readers questions about trash, please sign up. Discuss how the themes of truth, lies, and hypocrisy are interwoven within andy mulligan s novel trash.
We know only small bits about jose, one of which is in chapter seven, part four. Trash by andy mulligan trash chapter summaries to help you. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Published in 2010, andy mulligans dystopian young adult novel trash examines themes of poverty, homelessness, corruption, and friendship. Smoky mountain for us it is spelled with an e as in smokey, green hills greenhills is a shopping center in san juan where the former presidentvicepresidentsenator, joseph estrada lives, mckinley. How did you get the inspiration for the story in trash. We will focus on the themes of corruption, poverty and friendship, and how the characterisation of different characters. He worked as a theater director for ten years before travels in asia prompted him to retrain as a teacher. Chapter one introduces the reader to the main character, raphael fernandez. In a thirdworld country, three teenage trash pickers find a key and some cash, and are unwittingly thrust into a world of crime and danger. Sep 09, 2010 in an unnamed third world country, in the notsodistant future, three dumpsite boys make a living picking through the mountains of garbage on the outskirts of a large city. If you want to download you have to send your own contributions. Free trash worksheets and literature unit for teachers.
In the novel trash, the poor live in such a bad condition compared to the rich, andy mulligan shows us this divide in many different ways. This story depicts life on the dumpsites by far it is not an easy lifestyle nor a pleasant and rewarding one. In the wallet there was 11 thousand pesos so he shared it with gardo raphael took 600, and gardo took 500. Adapted from andy mulligan s young adult fiction novel, trash has a story that seems almost like a fairytale it is only in the lalaland of literature that fourteenyearold trash pickers can succeed in exposing the corrupted ways of political figures without getting themselves killed. Trace the characterization arc of raphaels character throughout the novel. This is a complete set of questions 292 to provoke and test students learning when studying the novel trash. Welcome to esl printables, the website where english language teachers exchange resources. Thankfully, i have this lovely interview with the amazing and interesting andy mulligan, author of trash which i loved for your reading pleasure. The poor dont have houses where they can live comfortably, rotten, stinky trash is all thats around them. A bundle of resources designed to reinforce and stimulate learning through activity. With twists and turns, unrelenting action, and deep, raw emotion, trash is a heartpounding, breathholding novel. Feb 18, 2017 this website and its content is subject to our terms and conditions.
Reading comprehension year 7trash andy mulligan worksheets. This is where frederico gonz, a grave memorial maker tells the. Andy mulligan has written a powerful story about unthinkable povertyand the kind of hope and determination that can transcend it. Comprehension by chapter, vocabulary challenges, creative reading response activities and projects, tests, and much more. Trash is a fictional story based on author andy mulligans experiences as a volunteer aid worker on a landfill in the philippines. Raphael, gardo, and junjun known as rat throughout most of the book. Find the quotes you need in andy mulligans trash, sortable by theme, character, or chapter. Free trash study unit worksheets for teachers to print. Trash by andy mulligan questions flashcards quizlet. Article by andy mulligan the guardian how i wrote trash in 10 days straight by andy mulligan is an article where he describes the inspiration and writing process for his novel trash and also his reaction to the film adaptation.
Complete unicef worksheet pg 10 interview with andy mulligan. Interview with andy mulligan created by book nut view on book. Trash quotes from litcharts the creators of sparknotes. Extract from pages 56 of trash by andy mulligan, published by david fickling, reprint by permission of the random house group limited. This sequence is the first in a series of three where students will use english skills to analyse text and sort through information presented in written, visual and multimodal textual modes. Saved from andymulligantrash trash by andy mulligan.
Fourteenyearolds raphael and gardo team up with a younger boy, rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag raphael finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a thirdworld countrys dump. Trash by andy mulligan an extensive collection of teaching resources for ks3 english prose, including classic texts and more obscure works. Show the students the cover of andy mulligan s novel trash then give them the reading a book cover worksheet. Trash is a fictional story based on author andy mulligan s experiences as a volunteer aid worker on a landfill in the philippines. Child labour is a major context and theme of andy mulligan s trash novel. Written from multiple narrative perspectives, trash mostly presents its points of view from the eyes of three boys who live on the trash heaps of a city in a thirdworld country where there are massive inequities of wealth. This is how we truly engage students in learning and intellectual curiosity and arouse them to work to make the world a better place. Supersummary, a modern alternative to sparknotes and cliffsnotes, offers highquality study guides for challenging works of literature. The book is packed with visceral descriptions of children living in abject poverty, exposing actual conditions faced by the worlds poorest children as well as the injustice of a world that largely ignores them.
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