Tori won a prize for moldy bread

Seventh Grade students participate in a moldy bread contest!


Ok...we can tell she got her mother's cooking skills.....


All seventh grade students just participated in the “Moldy Bread” Contest. Each student took a piece of bread home and was asked to make it as moldy as possible in three weeks. This was fun from a “gross” aspect, but language arts teachers used this as an opportunity to have students write for various purposes, in various contexts, from a variety of points of view.

Students wrote from the point of view of the bread on day one, and they evaluated their process during week two. They described their bread after two weeks, and they wrote to the judges, in their most persuasive tones on the last day, trying to convince the volunteer bread critics to vote for their gross slices of “Sunbeam King Thin.”

Everyone had a great time comparing strategies and creating personalities for their slices of bread!