Jamie Really Liked to Eat
Jamie Really Likes to Eat shows the life of a young boy living on a homestead around 1830 and how many pioneer parents depended on their children to help them gather and prepare the family's food. Jamie fishes, plucks ducks, and traps rabbits. He helps his mother churn butter, collect eggs and bake bread. Children can compare the food Jamie eats with the food they eat - some of it the same, like buckwheat pancakes and blueberry muffins, and some of it different, like rabbit stew and duck pie.
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Jamie Really Likes to Eat shows the life of a young boy living on a homestead around 1830 and how many pioneer parents depended on their children to help them gather and prepare the family's food. Jamie fishes, plucks ducks, and traps rabbits. He helps his mother churn butter, collect eggs and bake bread. Children can compare the food Jamie eats with the food they eat - some of it the same, like buckwheat pancakes and blueberry muffins, and some of it different, like rabbit stew and duck pie.
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directorJocelyn Rehder
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scriptJocelyn Rehder
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producerFloyd Elliott
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executive producerDouglas MacDonald
Questions/Activities:
- What were some of the chores that Jamie did around the house? Did he enjoy those chores?
- What were some of the foods that Jaime ate? Are there any foods in the film that you would want to eat?
- Homework
- Have your students reflect on what types of chores they can do at home. Have them go home and offer their help around the house to determine which kinds of chores they do or do not enjoy and compare them to Jamie’s preferences.
