Title:

The Patch Work Quilt

 Author:

Emily Nepple

 Grade:

2

 Integrated Discipline:

Social Studies, Language Arts, Visual Arts

 Standards:

National Visual Arts Standards:

NA-VA.K-4.2 Using Knowledge of Structures and Functions:  Students use visual structures and functions of art to communicate ideas.

NA-VA.-K4.5 Reflecting Upon and Assessing the Characteristics and Merits of Their Work and the Work of Others:  Students understand there are various purposes for creating works of visual art.  Students describe how people’s experiences influence the development of specific artwork.

 National Reading Standards:

11.    Students participate as knowledgeable, reflective, creative, and critical members of a variety of literacy communities.

12.    Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g., for learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange of information).

 Objectives:

The children will be able to:

-Contribute to a class discussion by discussing what a quilt is and what they think a patchwork quilt is.

-Use oral communication skills to answer critical thinking questions about Tanya and her Grandmother during and after the read aloud.

-Identify and sue the concepts of reconstructing the past and creating unity by creating a patch for the classroom patchwork quilt.

Assessment:

Note the students’ responses to questions.  Were they able to understand what a patchwork quilt is and how it is made? 

Evaluate patches.  Check for understanding of the assignment.  

 Materials:

The book, The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy

Oak tag patches

Pencils

Markers

Crayons

 Procedures:

 Anticipatory Set:

1.  Ask the students, “Does anyone know what a quilt is?”

2.  Have the students share their answers with the person next to them, and then have the students discuss this as a class.

 Activities:

1. Introduce the book.
2. Ask the students, “What do you think a patchwork quilt is?”
3. Read pages 1 and part of 2. Ask the students, “What do you think Tanya’s grandmother is using those scraps for?”
4. Read through to page 6.  Ask, “What is Tanya’s grandmother using to make her patchwork quilt?”
5. Read through page 13 and part of 14.  Ask, “Who is missing from the quilt?”
6. Read through to the end of the book.
7. Ask the students to tell a friend what a patchwork quilt is, and then discuss it as a class.
8. Explain to the students how they are going to be like Tanya and help the teacher make a patchwork quilt for our class.
9. Show the students the Oak tag patch and explain that everyone will get a patch, and then explain that they have to draw one thing about themselves on each patch.
10. Show the students an example of a patch the teacher has already made.
11. Discuss as a class all of the different things the students could draw on their patch.
12. Pass out Oak tag patches to all the students. 
13. Have the students create their patches.

 Closure:

Have the students help put together the quilt, by taping the patches together.

 Reference:

www.lessonplanspage.com

Christine Silvestri

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