- General Information
- Title: Enemy Pie
- Author: Derek Munson
- Publication Date: September 1, 2000
- Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
- Description: Enemy Pie is a picture book about a boy who thinks his summer is ruined when a boy named Jeremy Ross moves to his neighborhood and becomes the number one enemy on his list. His dad has a recipe for a pie that gets rid of enemies. His dad asks him to play with Jeremy for a day and he soon realizes that he is actually really fun to hang out with. They all end up eating the pie and it was delicious.
- Book Excerpt: (See pictures below)
- Ideas for lessons related to Enemy Pie
- Core Integration
- This book is a great example of irony. It could be used as an example of what irony is and how stories are funny and surprising with the use of irony.
- Make sure students are clear that the ‘enemy pie’ actually had good intentions and was more like a ‘friendship pie’. Have students brainstorm words that could be in the recipe of a ‘friendship pie’ such as: respect, helpful, caring, compassionate, good listener, peacemaker, honest, etc. Have students write either a recipe or a poem about a ‘friendship pie’. There could be an optional art activity to go with it where the students draw a pie with words that describe good friends.
- You could also expand the idea of a pie into in to a math lesson. Pies are great for teaching fractions. You could present different scenarios with different numbers of friends/pies/slices of pie and have them figure out how to equally share the pie between the people.
- Standards
- NHES Standards:
- MEH1.5.10 Describe the importance of being aware of one’s feelings and of being sensitive to the feelings of others. (HBO 1: Express feelings in a healthy way. HBO 7: Show tolerance and acceptance of differences in others. HBO 8: Establish and maintain healthy relationships.)
- MEH1.5.12 Explain the importance of respecting the personal space and boundaries of others. (HBO 3: Prevent and manage interpersonal conflict, in healthy ways. HBO 8: Establish and maintain healthy relationships.)
- MEH1.5.20 Describe how people are similar and different. (HBO 7: Show tolerance and acceptance of differences in others.)
- MEH1.5.21 Identify characteristics of healthy relationships. (HBO 8: Establish and maintain healthy relationships.)
- General Curriculum:
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.1: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.3: Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
- CCSS.Math.Content.4.NF.B.3.d: Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions referring to the same whole and having like denominators, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem.
- CCSS.Math.Content.4.NF.B.4.c: Solve word problems involving multiplication of a fraction by a whole number, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem.
- NHES Standards: