A Patchwork of Places and Poetry
Hosted by Marci McGowan  Spring Lake, NJ

Dear Friends,

This project is the third in a series about special places.  The others are:  My Town Is Important and Oh, the Places We'll Go!

It should  easily fit within your fall community study.  We always start the school year learning about our place in the world.

Please share your "special places" too, this time with poetry and quilts!

~  Marci McGowan

Objectives

Students will:
* learn about places in the world and communicate with other classes using the Internet.
* write a description of significant features about their special place in poetry form.
*  read and/or listen to books about quilting.
*  contribute to any form of a class quilt related to their special places.
* view participating class entries on the project webpage.

Teachers will create lessons related to social studies, language arts, art, technology, and quilting to accomplish project objectives for their students.  Resources related to literature, quilting, communities, and the Internet will be available.  All activities to be aligned with region/state and technology standards.  You can view technology standards at NETS

Project Description

  1. Students select a "special place" to share with other project classes.  Examples of special places:
    * a school, neighborhood, town, state, province
    * a community created by the class
    * a location mentioned in a story read in class
    * a river, lake, mountain, park, desert, seashore, ocean
    * other geographical area

  2. Students write a poem describing their special place using any poetry format ( poetry formats).
  3. Students listen to or read books about communities, special places, quilting (book lists).
  4. Students create a class quilt of illustrations/poems related to their special places.  This can be made of paper or fabric (about places and quilts).
  5. Students  engage in additional learning activities related to language arts, social studies, art, technology, math, science.

Suggestions for extended activities: further quilting study, creating online activites for students, interviews, drawing a map, writing a song or script, writing a response to participating classes about their entries using email, creating a slide show for visitors.

Registration
Send the following information by email to Marci McGowan at marcimcg@aol.com:

teacher's name, grade level, name of school, city or town, state/province/country, email address for contact person, and
** participation choice (see below)

Registration Starts: August 10, 2002

Ways to Participate: You have a choice!

Send by email: student work samples and other project-required material.  A webpage will be made for each class.
*  25 classes from varied grade levels will be registered.
*  A waiting list will be kept as needed.		 Make your own webpage and post to your sites with a link back to the project page.
     *  All of the requirements must be included on your webpage to be considered part of this project.    

*  Since many participants in previous projects also made their own pages, this option is being included, allowing more classes to participate.

Entries Due: November 15, 2002 or earlier.

Entries include: 1 - 3 class poems, a description or image of related class quilt, no more than 4 images in jpg or gif format per class,  names of quilt theme books used in classroom, list of your local standards, and description of additional activities and resources if used.

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