Underground Railroad - Northern Kentucky University
Underground Railroad
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Lesson Length: 1 Day
Age/Grade Level: 3
Objectives:
To use literature at a primary level to convey the ingenious ways oppressed
people sought to seek freedom.
The students will connect the context of a reading passage to a real-world
experience.
The students will use visual arts to illustrate a secret code in a quilt
The students will present their quilt and discuss the secret code embedded in it.
Context:
This lesson was part of a series of lessons on the Underground Railroad. The
Kentucky shoreline of the Ohio River played an integral part in the escape of
hundreds of slaves via the Underground Railroad. Using literature the children
will gain an understanding of this civil rights movement. We began with a
discussion of what the children thought the Underground Railroad was. We then
proceeded to read, If you Traveled on the Underground Railroad to gain more
insight into this movement. We also read Aunt Harriett’s Underground Railroad.
My children had a hard time with this abstract railroad so I decided to create a
plantation scene and have a few slaves attempt an escape. We had
overseers, conductors, safe houses and the school office designated as Canada.
The children acted out the escape plan.
Materials:
If you Traveled on the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine
Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad by Faith Ringgold
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson
Quilt block patterns Patience Square, Texas Star
6 inch square paper, crayons, glue, poster board
Procedure:
Discuss some background on a slave’ s life, the hard work, family life, and the
desire to be free.
Review the previous days experience of acting out a plantation scene and slaves
attempting to escape.
Read Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson.
Discuss the idea that a quilt could be used as a map.
Discuss the importance of using coded pictures to convey the path.
Connect to our safe houses that we used yesterday ( computer lab, Mrs. G’s room,
Mrs. K’s room and the office.)
Have the children share the secretly coded pictures used in Sweet Clara and the
Freedom Quilt..
Have the children divide into 4 groups.
Each group must choose which places from the story they would want to illustrate
for the group’s quilt.
Create their quilt square and glue onto their poster board quilt.
As a group prepare a presentation about their quilt and the secret coded places
that they included.
Allow each group to present their poster quilt.
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Rubric
| |Beginning |Developing |Proficient |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| |Student listened to the story, |Student understood the message |Student understood the message |
|4 |Sweet Clara and the Freedom |from the story |from the story |
| |Quilt. |Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt|Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt|
| | |that secret messages were |that secret messages were |
| | |sometimes put into quilts |sometimes put into quilts and was|
| | | |able to decode the code in a |
| | | |discussion setting. |
| |Student created a quilt block as |Student was able to design a |Student was able to communicate |
|3 |a direct reference to the |quilt block |the importance of secrecy when |
| |location |for an obvious room or location |designing his/her quilt block for|
| | | |a definite location. |
| |Student held the quilt design |Student participated in the |Student participated in the |
|2 |for their group presentation |discussion of their |analysis of their group’s quilt |
| | |quilt design |design. |
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