With blue baby bottle-shaped Kool-Aid, cheesecake, cheese and crackers, and green pea snack crisps, 8th graders delighted in a baby shower-themed party based on Roald Dahl's short story, "Lamb to the Slaughter," while comparing and contrasting the original 1954 story to a film adaptation. Students dressed down in either pink or blue to represent their guess about the gender of Mary Maloney's baby - a detail about the protagonist's six-month pregnancy only mentioned in the film adaptation!

All in blue, 8th graders were excited when Mary Maloney mentioned to her husband, Patrick, in the film that "he kicked today"! 

The baby shower-themed movie party reinforced the characterization of Dahl's preganant protagonist while the snack choies were straight from Mary's home hospitalty and Sam's grocery shop setting: green pea snack crisps for the "can of peas" that Mary rehearses asking Sam for at his shop, cheesecake for the dessert Mary brings home from Sam's grocery for Patrick, and a cheese and crackers platter for the snack Mary wishes to bring Patrick when he arrives home tired and agitated from work.