Author: Yona Zeldis McDonough
Illustrators: Lauren Mortimer & James Bennett
Genre: Nonfiction
Publisher: Grossett & Dunlap
Copyright: December 26, 2013
Sweet Clara and the Freedom QuiltAuthor: Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrator: James Ransom
Genre: Historical Fiction
Publisher: Alfred A. Kopf; 1 edition
Copyright: July 10, 1995
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Author: Jeanette Winter
Illustrator: Jeanette Winter
Genre: Historical Fiction
Publisher: Dragonfly Books; Reprint edition
Copyright: January 15, 1992
Using these three books together makes for an excellent social studies lesson about the Underground Railroad. Begin with the two historical fiction books and then use the nonfiction book to find if the events in the book are fact or fiction, or just facts "stretched" a little bit to make the story more interesting!
Students can use Venn diagrams to compare and contrast the books.
Students can use technology to research the Underground Railroad.
Complete a Problem/Solutions/Events chart together as class.
Discuss quilts and how they often tell a story of the quilt maker's family. Have each child make a square using cloth or paper that tells a story of their family and then piece the squares together to make a class quilt.
You can use the book, The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco to begin the discussion about quilts telling the story of a family.
The nonfiction book, Stitching Stars, is a good book to use about the storytelling of quilts along with the fiction book mentioned above.
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