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- Grade Range
- 2nd - 4th
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Students examine the many ways quilts were used to chronicle the history and experiences of African slaves and African-Americans in America. They analyze a story quilt using the elements of storytelling, then create a class quilt. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students create the quilt based from the story "Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt" by Deborah Hopkinson then learn the historical background of quilting and its significance to the Underground Railroad and slavery. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students use the Internet to research the dangers that escaping slaves faced along the Underground Railroad and the factors that helped the slaves make it to freedom. They design quilts describing what they have learned. Full Review »
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- 8th - 12th
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Students investigate how slaves communicated through quilting, how African-American culture emerged amid slavery, and how fabric and quilted forms of communication continue today. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 9th
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Students read the essay King Cotton: The Fiber of Slavery to determine the impact of the cotton economy on the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th - 12th
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Students complete a unit on slavery and the Underground Railroad. They watch a video about quilts, complete a KWL chart, write daily journal entries, conduct research, and create a quilt block. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students listen to Deborah Hopkinson's, "Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt" in preparation for learning about why slaves made quilts. They study discuss how slaves used some quilts as signs along the Underground Railroad before designing a quilt square for a class quilt. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th
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Students identify and recognize characteristics of nonfiction in literary works, explore language and culture of Gullah people, compare and contrast purposes of spirituals and quilts in terms of their relationships to escape from bondage, and make connections between events/ideas described in slave narratives. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students construct a quilt square that becomes a part of q whole. The quilt square is constructed using cut pieces of cloth. Students examine the construction of patterns with shapes and patters based on the story "Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt" by Deborah Hopkins. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students explore the use of freedom quilts in helping slaves escape to freedom using the Underground Railroad. They review the various quilt blocks that were used to give directions on the Underground Railroad. Students create their own directions and quilt blocks to a nearby location. Full Review »
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