pie

Introduction
I will have an apple pie on display in front of a poster with the poem written on it. I will tell them that pie was my dad’s favorite dessert and that he always called cake, “old dry cake” even if it was delicious.

pie
By Valerie Worth

After the yellow-white
Pie dough is rolled out
Flat, and picked up
Drooping like a round
Velvet mat, fitted gently
Into the dish, and piled
With sliced, sugared,
Yellow-white apples,
Covered with still another
Soft dough-blanket,
The whole thing trimmed
And tucked in tight, then
It is all so neat, so
Thick and filled and fat,
That we could happily
Eat it up, even
Before it is cooked.

From ALL THE SMALL POEMS AND FOURTEEN MORE, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994

Extension
I will ask the students what their favorite pie is. Then we will make dough and slice apples for a pie. The students will have the opportunity to read a recipe, measure, cut, and mix ingredients and finally taste an apple pie. Then, they will write a poem about their pie.