Everybody Eats Bread

Compiled by Linda St.. Laurent & Students from St. Michaels School Fall River, MA

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Spring 2005 Learning Circles

Inspired by the book…• Everybody Bakes Bread by

Norah Dooley In this rainy-day story Carrie is sent out into her multiethnic neighborhood to borrow a three-handled rolling pin. She has In a fine time visiting the neighbors, eating seven kinds of bread, and finding enough friends for a kick ball game after the rain stops. She samples coconut bread from Barbados, chapatis from India, corn bread from South Carolina, pocket bread from Lebanon, challah from the Jewish "old country," pupusa from El Salvador, and braided bread from Italy.

In Fall River, Massachusetts,USA…

• We usually eat a lot of wheat and white bread.

• We usually get our bread from the store or make the bread at home. If we purchase the bread it usually costs $2.00. We eat a lot of Massas bread or Portuguese Sweet Bread in Fall River.

• My favorite way to eat bread is fresh out of the oven with butter and strawberry jam. Bread kind of looks like a log. Bread smells like nothing else in the world.

• The most important ingredient in the process of baking bread is the quality of flour, yeast, and patience

In our fourth grade class we worked in small groups to make Italian bread sticks and corn bread. The students were surprised to taste the ingredients that we used for baking. The yeast and sugar water mixture we used was really smelly and tasted totally disgusting, but when the bread was finished every crumb was eaten and we all agreed it was very yummy!!!.