Quilts of Many Cultures

This lesson is a continuation of a story map lesson, which you will find in Attachment 1. I used story map 2 from http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/.

1. You will keep your groups from yesterday.

2. Each group will design a poster of the culture displayed in the book that group was assigned.

3. After recieving your role assignment and responsiblities (Attachment 2), each person must fufill your responsiblities and give to the director to proof.

RESEARCHERS

THE KEEPIN QUILT      THE PROMISE QUILT      SWEET CLARA        BEN JOHNSON

Russin Immigrants     Greneral Lee                Slavery         The history of Quilts

Jews                         General Grant          Underground railroad   Quilt patterns

4. Once all information is complete, the artist and director will discuss how the information is to be displayed.

5. After all posters are completed each group will present their poster. Each member of the group needs to explain their role.

6. After all posters are presented each student will complete a Venn Diagram by comparing and contrasting two of the cultures in the books we have discussed. http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/

7. Then each student will design a quilt square, 8x8 square of cloth, each square will be tied togeter with ribbion, and display the students name, that will be part of our classroom quilt which we will display in our room.

Links that can be used in your research:
Russian Immigrants:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAErussia.htm  http://www.nauticom.net/www/maduro/russian.htm 
Jews:
http://www.tenant.net/Community/LES/vanetten.html  http://www.jewfaq.org/index.htm   
General Lee:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/judaism.htm  http://www.civilwarhome.com/leebio.htm 
General Grant:
http://virtualology.com/uscivilwarhall/robertelee.org/  http://www.empirenet.com/~ulysses/          
Slavery:
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/union-generals/ulysses-s-grant/ulysses-s-grant.htm                               http://www.infoplease.com/timelines/slavery.html  
Underground railroad:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2957.html 
The History of Quilts:

http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/tbarcalow/Quilt/History/history.htm   http://www.womenfolk.com/     
Patterns oF Quilts     
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_quilting 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_quilting