Thirst - Reading Guide and SDGs Packet
The riveting story of a heroic girl who fights for her belief that water should be for everyone. A fun and enlightening read! This book is great for social science classrooms like Global Studies because this story explores concepts of water access, economic and gender inequity, cultural understanding of ideas like caste and Hindu-Islamic relations, and justice issues. It is also an excellent opportunity to bring an author of color into your classroom readings. We highly recommend it!
Plot Summary:
Minni lives in the poorest part of Mumbai, where access to water is limited to a few hours a day and the communal taps have long lines. Lately, though, even that access is threatened by severe water shortages and thieves who are stealing this precious commodity—an act that Minni accidentally witnesses one night. Meanwhile, in the high-rise building where she just started to work, she discovers that water streams out of every faucet and there’s even a rooftop swimming pool. What Minni also discovers there is one of the water mafia bosses. Now she must decide whether to expose him and risk her job and maybe her life. How did something as simple as access to water get so complicated?
This Lesson Includes:
Plot Summary:
Minni lives in the poorest part of Mumbai, where access to water is limited to a few hours a day and the communal taps have long lines. Lately, though, even that access is threatened by severe water shortages and thieves who are stealing this precious commodity—an act that Minni accidentally witnesses one night. Meanwhile, in the high-rise building where she just started to work, she discovers that water streams out of every faucet and there’s even a rooftop swimming pool. What Minni also discovers there is one of the water mafia bosses. Now she must decide whether to expose him and risk her job and maybe her life. How did something as simple as access to water get so complicated?
This Lesson Includes:
- Included in this lesson is a packet that presents the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to your students and challenges them to find examples of how Goal #6, access to clean water and sanitation, connect to one another. The issue of access to clean water connects to poverty, health, education, peace and justice, and so much more! This simple-to-use packet will generate fantastic conversations in your classroom about what you just read!
- A link to where you can buy the book for your classroom: Click here to purchase a copy.