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Summary and Objective
Quilts often represent a family story or create a family memory. After visiting a quilt room in a museum, making quilt squares, and studying Early American History, the children will learn more about quilting by using the American Centuries web site and listening to The Keeping Quilt. Students will understand that quilts may hold and keep memories alive forever.
Teaching Plan
Step 1.
Pre-Activity: The children will share what they know about quilts. The teacher will record the responses on chart paper.
Step 2.
Pre-Activity: The teacher will read aloud, The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco (Simon and Schuster 1988). The children will talk about why Patricia Polacco's family quilt is important to her family.
Step 3.
The children will look at the quilts on the American Centuries web site.
Step 4.
Each child will pick one quilt from the web site.
Step 5.
The children will make up a short story to go with the quilt.
Step 6.
The children will share their stories.
Step 7.
The teacher will read the labels under the quilts to the children (after they've shared their stories).
Step 8.
Post-Activity: The children will design a memory/story square of their own. The children will write about their squares.
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