First up: It's history week so that means VANBUCKS for MIRACLES. One buck for every miracle recorded on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Also, don't forget to study your notecards :) ALSO, your book groups had the assignment to have the books fully written and ready for illustration. This week the illustrators and front and back cover group members need to do their part. Come to class with the final product ready to share.
Study and Learn:
+Read and take notes on DK American History book pages 58-65. There may be a quiz like last time so come prepared ;)
+Watch this three- part youtube video series on Lewis and Clark. The narrator does speak a little slow so feel free to speed it up, but I think you'll learn things you haven't heard before!
+Watch this video about Harriet Tubman, I've seen kiddie videos about her many times over the years but I learned lots of new facts about this hero of the 1800's from this short video!
+Watch this video on Underground Railroad Quilts. This is an informal video caught at a historical reenactment of a woman sharing information on how quilts may have been used to direct enslaved people on their way to freedom.
Know and Understand
- Remember your year-long history project that you have been working on?? You should be making some good progress at this point. We ONLY have 3 History classes left (including this week!) before we will organize our museum presentations!! Crazy. I need you to spend 1.5-2 hours THIS WEEK on your history project and come prepared to show or report in during class on how your project is going. I would love to see something concrete this week -- some of you did that last time and that is great. When you report I want to hear or see the progress :)
- Add these dates to your pretty, tidy, illustrated, timeline with a blurb to explain what happened:
1803- Louisiana Purchase
1804-06 - Louis and Clark Expedition
1812- War of 1812 1820- Missouri Compromise
1830- Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears
1831- Start of underground railroad
- Finally, I would like you to do a creative project :D You saw how the quilt squares could send messages and how quilt squares have meaning. I would like you to design your own quilt square with a design and patterns and colors that represent what FREEDOM means to you.
- What would your design look like? Can you find an existing design that makes you think of freedom or do you want to create your own design?
- What patterns of fabric would you use? Stripes, plaids, solids, gingham, floral, etc? Why?
- What colors will you use? What do they represent in your Freedom Quilt Block?
This quilt square should be 10x10 inches, it can be created using any artistic medium (paint? sew? cut out papers?) -- I'm going to leave this wide open but it needs to be recognizable as a 10 x 10 quilt square :) You will be asked to stand up and share the meaning behind your design, patterns and colors.
Be creative!
Here are examples of existing quilt designs and their meanings (super fascinating!):
Become and Serve:
I feel like there are so many heroes in this era we're studying. Women who fought for the right to vote, men and women, white and black, who fought against the injustice of slavery and risked their life time and again to help the one. I've felt inspired by how so many were called to do the impossible and how they rose to the challenge, fulfilling their mission.
I would like you to listen to this short video from President Nelson:
What difficult things has the Lord asked YOU to do? What work or mission have you felt called to already in your life? Write the answers and any thoughts and inspiration you receive while watching the video in your commonplace book.
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