Sharp Thoughts

This worksheet bundle will help step students through a critical thinking and inference routine needed to identify concepts / ideas / themes in the novel 'Trash' by Andy Mulligan. Skill focus:- Following instructions after reading modelled responses. - Perseverance to think for themselves. - Selecting quotations important to their understanding of the novel. - Thinking critically about events or ideas represented in the novel. - Linking ideas from the novel to their real world experiences. - Ide

This recursive writing activity steps students through an imaginative response in the form of an internal observation from a character of their own development. It will enable students to consider characters from the beginning of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' through another person's perspective. Students will need to decide who they support, as they imagine how the conflict plays out either on the stage of The Globe Theatre or in their version of the fictional world of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'

This two-page scaffold assists students in writing an in-depth, extended paragraph focusing on who they think is the character with the strongest moral compass in the novel 'Trash'.Skill focus:- Students select three moments from the novel 'Trash' that show moments of moral or amoral behaviour. - Follow prompts to compose sentences of varied composition that communicate similar signals without repetition. - Embedding quotations into sentences. - Analysing literary techniques within the quotatio

A pre-reading activity for the novel 'Trash' by Andy Mulligan, focusing students on the concepts within the novel.Skill focus: - Critical thinking about a statement. - Impulse control and working in silence. - Connecting concepts in a novel to lived experiences. - justifying choices by explaining verbally. Extension task: Writing about how two concepts are true or untrue for the first chapter of the novel 'Trash'. Year levels: years 5-9, upper primary, middle school, Stage 4 Timing: 20 minutes

This activity examines the seven types of sensory imagery and how these have been used in Andy Mulligan's novel 'Trash'. The worksheets scaffold students to respond in an analytical paragraph. Skill focus:- Develop an understanding of the seven types of imagery. - Gather examples of these types of imagery - quotations and examples. - Develop specific sentence structures needed in an analytical paragraph. - Identify abstract nouns as concepts to discuss. - Write cause and effect statements linked

These worksheets use evidence from the novel 'Trash' to explore how two characters are developed by Andy Mulligan to make the readers think and feel a certain way about their roles in the novel.Skill focus:- Close re-reading of the novel to gather evidence and quotations. - Thinking critically about textual evidence. - Responding to textual evidence in an imaginative and personal style. - Student choice for analysis of a second protagonist. - Working independently on known tasks. Year levels: 5-

Pre-reading activity for a novel study of 'Trash' written by Andy Mulligan. Skill focus: - Begins to develop analytical skills for visual literacy. - Develops verbal collaboration and detail development via conversation. - Uses guided questioning to elicit specific responses. - Students work using the 'Think, Pair, Share' routine to develop answers before recording them. Year levels: 5-9, upper primary, middle school Timing: 20-40mins