HOW TO MAKE AN APPLE PIE AND SEE THE WORLD by Marjorie Priceman
An apple pie is easy to make…if the market is open. But if the market is closed, the world becomes your grocery store. This deliciously silly recipe for apple pie takes readers around the globe to gather ingredients. First hop a steamboat to Italy for the finest semolina wheat. Then hitch a ride to England and hijack a cow for the freshest possible milk. And, oh yes! Don’t forget to go apple picking in Vermont!
In the video below, Sofia travels the world to gather the best ingredients for her apple pie and tells her story. Adopted from the book “How to make an apple pie and travel the world” by Marjorie Priceman. If you were inspired by Sofia’s video, try creating your own story and video!
As you can probably guess, not all families eat the same kind of food. Take a look at the pictures of the different families. Do they eat the same foods? Why do you think different families eat different foods? We will use the SCIM-C Graphic organizer to help us analyze what we see in the pictures.
Photo below: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Oxfam Ian Kerr, 30, with his family and a week’s food supplied by a charity food bank. Ian left his job to become a full-time carer to his disabled son Jay-J, 12. Also pictured are his daughter Lillian, 5, and mother-in-law Linda, 61. Kerr says the family’s favorite food is spaghetti Bolognese, but Lillian says her favorite is Jaffa Cakes.
Photo below: David Levene/Oxfam Mirza Bakhishov, 47, his wife, Zarkhara, 37, and two sons, Khasay, 18 and Elchin, 15, own a small plot of land where they grow cotton and wheat as well as animal feed. “Our small cattle and poultry [are] everything for us. All our income and livelihood is dependent on them,” said Bakhishov.
Photo below: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Panos The Josephyan family from with their weekly food supply, which includes wheat flour, dried split peas, sugar, and cooking oil. The family supplements their diet with eggs laid by their chickens and wild greens from the fields.
Take a photograph of your family that is similar to the pictures above and insert it into a Google Presentation. What is your family’s favorite foods? Compare your family’s food to the food shown with the families in the pictures above. Are they the same? Or different? Why?
Challenge:
My family takes turns hosting Thanksgiving Dinner. This year, it is my turn! I need your help creating and designing a table that will allow all 22 members of my family to sit together for Thanksgiving Dinner. Can you help me figure out the shape of my dining table. What does the table look like?Remember, I want all of my family to sit at one table. What is the biggest table I can use so that I can put the most food in the center of the table?
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