Summary
Detritus croons a ballad to City Island's messiest jobs - the ones nobody thinks about until they stop getting done. Sanitation, plumbing, cleanup crews. Funny, and quietly respectful of the work.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Three quick questions to run after the short.
- Which messy jobs does the song sing about?
- What would happen if nobody did those jobs?
- Whose job at our school keeps things running?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: job, worker, income.
Try it: Draw one worker at our school and write a thank-you sentence for what they do.