The strategies of this workshop will center around biographical and autobiographical methods. Also, The Keeping Quilt and The Bedspread will be read as a resource for writing ideas. Participants will create an individual quilt pattern reflecting the culture, traditions, and history of their family, will draft a description of the original quilt square, modeling descriptive writing techniques, will publish their descriptive paragraphs by reading them aloud to the class as they display individually their original quilt squares, and will then weave their individual quilt squares into a class quilt. Workshop wrap-up will focus on ideas and concerns for presenting to students. Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Students read, analyze, and respond to literature as a record of life experiences.