Subject: Math, Social Studies, English Language Arts

Learner Outcomes:

• Students will work together to create a display of all the products of the previous lessons.
• Students will invite members of the community, other classes, and parents to view the display.
• Students will serve as hosts and hostesses for the visitors, explaining and teaching others what they have learned.

Materials:

• Tables or display racks for quilts and class books
• Data projector and computer to show Power Point presentations
• Area to display student-created quilt patterns and accompanying descriptions
• Area to display Quilt Poems
• Area to display quilt pictures and interviews done by students

Technology Tools/Courseware:
    Students will need a computer and data projector in order to show the Power Point presentations called Code Quilts or Patchwork Patterns.

Teacher Notes:
    The teacher may set up the display in the classroom or in a central location like the library.  Students should be involved in every aspect of the event, from planning, to set up, to serving as hosts and hostesses.

Procedures:
1.  The teacher and students will brainstorm how, when, and where the Patchwork on Parade event will take place.  There will be different sections of the event reflecting the Lessons, such as:
                Patchwork Past - a display of quilts, quilt photos taken by students, and the interviews that the students conducted.
                Patchwork Poetry - a display of the poems created by the students, and (if possible) a computer with the quilt poetry sites bookmarked.
                Patchwork Pathway - a station where the Code Quilt Power Point can be viewed, the books on the Underground Railroad are displayed, and the student directional blocks may be seen.
                Patchwork Patterns - a station where the Patchwork Patterns Power Point can be viewed, and the quilt blocks created by pairs of students can be displayed.

2.  Students should volunteer to serve as hosts/hostesses at the station of choice.  You may want several students to rotate through the stations if there are lots of students (such as middle school).

3.  Students will teach others about the information they have learned from the unit.

4.  The teacher will monitor all stations during the event.

Modifications:
    Modifications may be made according to the student's IEP.

Enrichment Activities:
        Guest speakers may be invited to bring quilts, conduct quilting lessons, or talk about their quilt memories.

Evaluation/Assessment:
        Because this is the unit culmination, there is no evaluation necessary.

West Virginia Content Standards and Objectives

National Standards

Job/Career Clusters: Speaker, Teacher, Technologist

References:

Code Quilts
Patchwork Patterns

Books for Display:

Eight Hands Round: A Patchwork Alphabet
The Secret to Freedom
Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad
Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth
Quilting Now and Then
No More!  Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Freedom River
Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman
Under the Quilt of Night
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Secret Signs Along the Underground Railroad
If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad

Music: Steal Away: Music of the Underground Railroad

Websites:

Patriotic Quilts
Appalacian Quilts
My Quilts
A Look at Quilt Blocks
Women & Geometry: An Archive of American Quilt Designs
Tangram Quilt Designs
Quilt Patterns Names
Quilts and Stuff
The Poetry and Prose of Quilting
A Gift of Tradition
Fabric Memories
Dreaming a Quilt
Room to Quilt
Quilting Is ...
Abolition Quilts and the Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad and the Use of Quilts as Messengers for Fleeing Slaves
Our Virtual Underground Railroad Quilt
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Threads of Freedom: The Underground Railroad Story in Quilts
Quilts and the Underground Railroad
Safe Harbor - quilts and the Underground Railroad
Quilts of Freedom: Patterns Reveal Underground Railroad Code
Underground Railroad
QUILTS...Connected to History and Math!

Authors: 
Denise White
Jane Fitzgerald
Fred Albert
 
 

Lesson One: Patchwork Past

Lesson Two: Patchwork Poetry

Lesson Three: Patchwork Pathway

Lesson Four: Patchwork Patterns

Lesson Five: Patchwork on Parade