Read the Scholastic article together as a class. Discuss why students think it would be important for different slaves making quilts to use the same symbols. Record their answers on the flipchart. Use the shared writing technique, recording different sentences from different students on the board. If a student disagrees with a direction, they may disagree by raising their hands, and calmly stating the change they would like to make.
Children then vote on which directive they feel is correct.
Praise the students for their hard work, and relate to the children that they will be creating their own freedom quilt tomorrow. They will be using the patterns they learned about today in the Scholastic article and the class' directions to the park. Read and review these directions as an entire class. Review the quilt block patterns in the Scholastic article. Once students have planned which block to use for which direction, have them draw their freedom quilt on the quilting graph paper.