Quilting: The story of the Underground Railroad

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 3

• Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
  • Objective 1.07: Elaborate on an idea or theme.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.02: Explore unique properties and potential of materials.
• Goal 3: The learner will organize the components of a work into a cohesive whole through knowledge of organizational principles of design and art elements.
  • Objective 3.03: Identify geometric shapes: circle, square, rectangle, triangle, diamond, oval, octagon, and pentagon.
  • Objective 3.07: Recognize composition is using the elements of art to create an artwork.
  • Objective 3.08: Achieve balance in compositions through use of like or different objects.
  • Objective 3.12: Recognize symmetrical and asymmetrical balance.

Grade 4

• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.02: Use additional art media, techniques and processes which may include:
    • Fibers - stitchery, a variety of fiber weaving techniques, felting and quilting
    • Cut paper - complex symmetrical folding and cutting;
    • Sculpture - experiments with varied tools including small hand tools.
• Goal 3: The learner will organize the components of a work into a cohesive whole through knowledge of organizational principles of design and art elements.
  • Objective 3.04: Exercise flexibility when approaching a problem-solving situation.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.01: Recognize that art can serve more than one purpose and/or function in a given culture.

Grade 5

• Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
  • Objective 1.01: Use the imagination as a source for symbolic expression
• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.01: Use additional art media, techniques and processes, which may include:
    • Drawing - charcoal
    • Printmaking - easy cut, mixed media, collographs
    • 3-D - wire
    • Photography - pin-hole cameras
• Goal 3: The learner will organize the components of a work into a cohesive whole through knowledge of organizational principles of design and art elements.
  • Objective 3.01: Recognize and apply the elements of art in an aesthetic composition.
  • Objective 3.02: Recognize and apply the design principles used in composition.

Social Studies (2003)

Grade 3

• Goal 2: The learner will analyze the multiple roles that individuals perform in families, workplaces, and communities.
  • Objective 2.03: Describe similarities and differences among communities in different times and in different places.
• Goal 3: The learner will examine how individuals can initiate change in families, neighborhoods, and communities.
  • Objective 3.01: Analyze changes, which have occurred in communities past and present.
• Goal 4: The learner will explain geographic concepts and the relationship between people and geography in real life situations.
  • Objective 4.02: Use appropriate source maps to locate communities.

Grade 4

• Goal 1: The learner will apply the five themes of geography to North Carolina and its people.
  • Objective 1.02: Describe and compare physical and cultural characteristics of the regions.
  • Objective 1.03: Suggest some influences that location has on life in North Carolina such as major cities, recreation areas, industry, and farms.
  • Objective 1.04: Evaluate ways the people of North Carolina used, modified, and adapted to the physical environment, past and present.
• Goal 3: The learner will trace the history of colonization in North Carolina and evaluate its significance for diverse people's ideas.
  • Objective 3.01: Assess changes in ways of living over time and determine whether the changes are primarily political, economic, or social.
• Goal 5: The learner will examine the impact of various cultural groups on North Carolina.
  • Objective 5.02: Describe traditional art music and craft forms in North Carolina.
  • Objective 5.03: Describe and compare the cultural characteristics of regions within North Carolina and evaluate their significance.

Grade 5

• Goal 1: The learner will apply key geographic concepts to the United States and other countries of North America.
  • Objective 1.01: Describe the absolute and relative location of major landforms, bodies of water,and natural resources in the United States and other countries of North America.
  • Objective 1.02: Analyze how absolute and relative location influence ways of living in the United States and other countries of North America.
  • Objective 1.07: Analyze the past movement of people, goods, and ideas within and among the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America and compare it to movement today.
• Goal 3: The learner will examine the roles various ethnic groups have played in the development of the United States and its neighboring countries.
  • Objective 3.01: Locate and describe people of diverse ethnic and religious cultures, past and present, in the United States.
  • Objective 3.02: Examine how changes in the movement of people, goods, and ideas have affected ways of living in the United States.
  • Objective 3.06: Compare and contrast the roles various religious and ethnic groups have played in he development of the United States with those of Canada, Mexico, and selected countries of Central America.
  • Objective 3.07: Describe art, music, and craft forms in the United States and compare them to various art forms in Canada, Mexico, and selected countries of Central America.
• Goal 4: The learner will trace key developments in United States history and describe their impact on the land and people of the nation and its neighboring countries.
  • Objective 4.02: Explain when, where, why, and how groups of people settled in different regions of the United States.
  • Objective 4.03: Describe the contributions of people of diverse cultures throughout the history of the United States.

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 3

• Goal 1: The learner will apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
  • Objective 1.04: Increase sight vocabulary, reading vocabulary, and writing vocabulary through:
    • wide reading.
    • word study.
    • listening.
    • discussion.
    • book talks.
    • book clubs.
    • seminars.
    • viewing.
    • role play.
    • studying author's craft.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.06: Conduct research for assigned and self-selected projects (with assistance) from a variety of sources (e.g., print and non-print texts, artifacts, people, libraries, databases, computer networks).

Grade 4

• Goal 1: The learner will apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
  • Objective 1.04: Increase reading and writing vocabulary through:
    • wide reading.
    • word study.
    • knowledge of homophones, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms.
    • knowledge of multiple meanings of words.
    • writing process elements.
    • writing as a tool for learning.
    • seminars.
    • book clubs.
    • discussions.
    • examining the author's craft.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections with text through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.06: Conduct research for assigned projects or self-selected projects (with assistance) from a variety of sources through the use of technological and informal tools (e.g., print and non-print texts, artifacts, people, libraries, databases, computer networks).

Grade 5

• Goal 1: The learner will apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
  • Objective 1.03: Increase reading and writing vocabulary through:
    • wide reading.
    • word study.
    • word reference materials.
    • content area study.
    • writing process elements.
    • writing as a tool.
    • debate.
    • discussions.
    • seminars.
    • examining the author's craft.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.06: Conduct research (with assistance) from a variety of sources for assigned or self-selected projects (e.g., print and non-print texts, artifacts, people, libraries, databases, computer networks).