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Quilting –
Piecing Together a Nation A WebQuest for 10th Grade (Resource) Designed by Patty Gilbert Introduction | Task | Process | Evaluation | Conclusion | Credits | Teacher Page Introduction EXTRA,
EXTRA, EXTRA! The biggest social events of the season, the County Fair and
the Quilting Bee, which is held in conjunction with the fair, will open in
just 2 weeks. You and your fellow reporters have been chosen to write a big
Extra Edition of the local newspaper! This is the break every cub reporter
looks forward to getting! Give your best effort; there may be a big promotion
for you! Your
task will be to inform the town of the many aspects of the fair and the
quilting bee, and to find the link between the two. A reporter doesn’t just repeat
what they have heard; they go out looking for the new angle, the new
connections, the BIG SCOOP! You
will compose a 4-page newspaper Extra Edition. There will be an editorial,
news, community interests, economic and business, an interview, and perhaps a
human interest story. Your
final product will be published using the Microsoft Publisher 2000. Remember
to make the final product interesting and the appearance pleasing to the eye.
Use pictures, maps, graphs and other graphics to add interest and
information. Your
group will design the masthead and headlines for your paper. Your editor will
make an oral presentation of the newspaper to the class. To
accomplish this assignment, you will first be divided into groups of four.
Your group should review the Evaluation section, so that everyone in the
group understands what is expected of this WebQuest. Each will choose a role:
(1) the editor, (2) the news reporter, (3) the economic/ business reporter,
and (4) the community reporter. Divide
the articles among yourselves, so that everyone is not researching the same
articles. Read the articles, poems, sketches and plays listed below, along
with others also found in the American
Memory Collection of the Library of Congress for interesting nuggets of
information. You may also use information you learned from reading the book, Between
the Iron and the Pine. As
you read the information find relevant pieces of information that you wish to
pursue for your articles. Come together as a group and discuss the
information and the types of articles you wish to write. As a group, you
should decide which articles are to be included. If you know where to find
additional information for another reporter, be sure to share that with
him/her. In
a newspaper there are many difference types of information; there are
articles, pictures, graphics, maps, graphs and tables. Use a variety of these
to increase the appeal to the readers. If
there are any disagreements about what will go into your newspaper, remember
it is up to the editor to make the final decision. It will also be the
editor’s job to present the newspaper to the class. Below
are some of the links to get you started: A sketch, a short play about life: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=varsep&fileName=s30539/s30539.data&recNum
A song, The Quilting Party: A picture, Harmony in the Home: http://memory.loc.gov/award/ndfa/ndfahult/c100/c192r.jpg
Picture: Bedroom with a Quilt http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/thc/5a49000/5a49500/5a49522t.gif A picture, the quilting room: A short story, Abraham Lincoln
and a Gift of Quilt Squares: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mal&fileName=mal1/370/3709500/malpage.db A
poem, Aunt Jemima’s Quilt: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/gifcache/moa/newe/newe0014/00418.TIF6.gif A picture, state fair quilt
booth: http://gowest.coalliance.org/photos/00073876/00073973.jpg
A poem, Long Island Farmer on
Seeing a Beautiful Quilt, Made by Miss Ella Foster of A short reading: Life story of
Mrs. Ina Mayer http://memory.loc.gov/mss/wpalh1/19/1905/19050501.tif
A short reading: A short reading: This
is a two-week project, so it will be worth 300 points. You will receive 125
points for the completed product, 75 points for the writing in your articles
and 60 points from your group’s evaluation of your participation, and
40 points from the oral presentation.
Your
newspaper will help you and your classmates have a better understanding of the
lives that the pioneers lived. Do you think life today is better today than
it was then? Do you think that you would have enjoyed living during this
period of time? This WebQuest
developed as part of the Adventure
of the American Mind project funded through the Library of Congress. Original articles,
pictures, and images are from the American Memory Collection of the Library
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