Content Standards:
The student will use simple strategies to determine the meaning of codes, symbols, and word while increasing their vocabulary skills for reading.
The student will determines what the main idea or essential message is, identify the main ideas or essential messages, identify relevant supporting details and facts, and arrange events in chronological order
Content Objectives:
Social Emotional Learning and Cultural Competency with African American History and Women’s Contributions to the United States of America.
Students will demonstrate how the author utilized the patchwork patterns, which were integral aspects of the quilt code used by runaway slaves along their journey on the Underground Railroad, to construct the events of the story to freedom.
Language Objectives:
Students will lean to relate key vocabulary terms that identify the quilt patterns which will determine the main idea and supporting details of the story.
Grouping Configuration:
Individual/Partner- while creating their individua quilt pieces
Group- to formulate a cohesive story based on each individual quilt pieces.
Literary Supplement:
The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom
Synopsis:
The Patchwork Path is an exciting narrative about a girl and her father who escape slavery with help from the coded symbols on a quilt. Shortly after Hannah's sister is sold to another plantation, Mama dies, but not before teaching Hannah how to sew, whispering to her, "…this quilt will show you everything you need to know to run to freedom." Their journey leads them along the Underground Railroad, from their Georgia plantation to a hiding place beneath a church, through pirate tunnels, and eventually to the home of a Quaker family. Finally, they cross Lake Erie into Canada, and the narrative ends on a hopeful note as Hannah makes a new quilt with an empty square for her sister, praying that someday they'll be together again, and
Introduction: Building Background
1) Discuss the book and ask appropriate questions in order for the students to be able to hypothesize predictions based on the title and pictures printed on the cover of the book. Tell them the story takes place in the United States during the time of slavery.
2) Clarify and Discuss the concepts of freedom using the following:
Key Vocabulary (terms to consider and discuss)
Freedom:
Runaway Slaves:
Pebbles:
Planks:
Quilt:
Quilt Code:
Plantation
Slave Owner:
Patchwork Pattern
Underground Railroad
Crossroads:
Trumbling Boxes;
Monkey Wrench:
Log Cabin:
North Star:
Canada:
Safe House:
Shoofly:
Bow Ties:
3) Explain the differences and similarities between a real railway system and the Underground Railroad by completing a Venn diagram together as a class.
4) Point out places on a map of North America the places mentioned in the story.
Modeling/Guided Instruction:
1) Show pictures of the quilt patterns depicted on the inside cover of the book and explain that these patterns made up the quilt code used by runaway slaves. 2) Read the first three pages of the story to show how each pattern introduces a main idea in the story and is also used by the author to create an event that takes place in the story. 3) Students will listen to the story 4) Using the pattern templates, students will construct their own set of the patchwork patterns out of construction paper. 5) Students will divide into groups and summarize the story using the patchwork patterns they have created. Review/Assessment: Students will identify the main ideas in the story and sequence the events in the story using the pictures of the patchwork patterns they have constructed.
Enrichment Activity:
Create an abstract quilt design using an art medium (crayons, marker. paint, pencil) that will help convey a message.
Decide what your will be? How would you like your message to be received (interpreted)?
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