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

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

This four part activity pack ensures students understand how the novel 'Trash' uses a setting based on real life places for a specific purpose.Skill focus:- Begin to analyse excerpts from the novel for forms, features and effects. - Develop a visual understanding of what the setting of the novel could look like. - Connect world issues to issues in the novel. - Guided self-paced internet research task on inspirational places. - Writing an analytical response using a detailed scaffold. Year levels

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-

This worksheet defines the seven types of sensory imagery found in literary texts and provides a space for students to identify each type of imagery in the prescribed text.Skill focus:- Identify imagery in a given text. - Develop or revise an understanding of the types of imagery and their specific names. Year levels: 7-12, secondary students. Timing: 10 minutes excluding text examination for examples.