In the first few weeks of January Ms. Foley’s ninth grade English class at Second Street, completed a short “Foods of the World” unit in which students read literature from different cultures of the world where they were from and ate food from there also. Families sent in food, and Ms. Foley brought Yugoslavian crescents from her great-grandma’s recipe. The class read “Bridge on the Zepa,” to go with the food. Another day, students ate homemade Irish soda bread and read “Limbo” and “Digging” by Seamus Heaney. One day they ate Italian pastry and read “In a Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound and “The Flowers Come As Gifts” by Amelia Rosselli, and lastly students learned about the origins of hush puppies in America through a nonfiction text.
