THE RICHES: A TALE OF FICTION
The Riches: A Fictional Story About A Family Living a Lie
Wikipedia describes the plot of the series this way:
"The show features Izzard and Driver as Wayne and Dahlia Malloy who, along with their family, are Irish Traveller con artists and thieves. They travel with their children Di Di (Delilah), Cael, and Sam.
As the series begins, Dahlia has just been paroled from prison. During her 2-year sentence, she has developed various drug addictions. In her absence, Wayne and the children have been continuing to act as con artists across the U.S. After a brief reunion with their Traveller clan, the family flees to avoid an arranged marriage for Di Di. Wayne steals a large amount from the clan's hoard of cash, and the family runs off. After getting into an altercation and RV chase with another Traveller family, the Malloys are involved in a car accident that kills a very wealthy couple, the eponymous Riches. In the hopes of pursuing a "better life", they adopt the Riches' identities in an affluent gated community in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They struggle to adjust to their new lives as buffers, as they call people who are not Travellers."
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Riches)
"The show features Izzard and Driver as Wayne and Dahlia Malloy who, along with their family, are Irish Traveller con artists and thieves. They travel with their children Di Di (Delilah), Cael, and Sam.
As the series begins, Dahlia has just been paroled from prison. During her 2-year sentence, she has developed various drug addictions. In her absence, Wayne and the children have been continuing to act as con artists across the U.S. After a brief reunion with their Traveller clan, the family flees to avoid an arranged marriage for Di Di. Wayne steals a large amount from the clan's hoard of cash, and the family runs off. After getting into an altercation and RV chase with another Traveller family, the Malloys are involved in a car accident that kills a very wealthy couple, the eponymous Riches. In the hopes of pursuing a "better life", they adopt the Riches' identities in an affluent gated community in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They struggle to adjust to their new lives as buffers, as they call people who are not Travellers."
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Riches)
Background to The Riches: 'Irish Travellers'
The Malloys, the family that assumes the identity of the Rich family, are 'Irish Travellers' - a term that describes a nomadic group that has Irish roots and roams parts of the United States, living on the margins of society through various cons and schemes. Below are some articles about 'Irish Travellers' in the United States.
ASSIGNMENTS
There are two assignments for this mini-unit:
Assignment One - Researching about Irish Travellers
Attached are several pages of information that have been broken into snippets in text boxes. The assignment is to find examples for each of the categories in order to give us a better idea of what Irish Travellers are and what is said about them.
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Assignment Two - Writing About The Riches and Irish Travellers
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