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Creating an Illustrated Quilt of
Colonial America
This culminating project challenges you to
create an illustrated quilt examining Colonial America that answers this
question: What are the important ideas you learned about in Colonial
America? To do this, you will work in pairs to create an illustrated
quilt with four sections representing the key ideas of this unit: Britain’s
perspectives vs. Colonist perspectives, Patriots vs. Loyalists, Tolerance
and Oppression, Important people and Events leading to the Revolution.
The quilt must incorporate a variety of elements – maps, timelines, symbols,
illustrations, quotes – to show what important ideas you have learned about
Colonial America. You will also write a one-page artist statement in which
you explain the meaning of your illustrated quilt. To create your illustrated
quilt, which will be on butcher paper, you will use Materials accumulated
during this class and resources that will demonstrate your group’s creativity.
1. Design your illustrated
quilt to show your understanding of key ideas of this unit. Your illustrated
quilt must be designed to support your answer to this question: What are
the important ideas you learned about in Colonial America? The quilt should
be comprised of four sections, each which address one of the aspects covered
in this unit:
 | Great Britain vs. Colonists perspective
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| Patriot vs. Loyalist perspective
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| Tolerance vs. Oppression
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| Important people and events leading
to the Revolution
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2. Your illustrated quilt
may include any of the following elements:
| Symbols Illustrations Quotes
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| Cutout pictures Words Maps
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| Poems Timelines Tracings
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3. You must create bold,
detailed visuals for each section of the illustrated quilt to represent
the important ideas you have learned about Colonial America.
For example, you can depict
the Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party and an oppressive act such as the
Stamp Act through the different perspectives of a Loyalist and a Patriot.
Brainstorm ideas for each of
the quilt sections by completing the CP Student Handout C: Brainstorming
ideas for an Illustrated Quilt. For each section of the quilt, review your
ideas with your teacher before designing your rough draft.
On the back of your illustrated
quilt, attach a one-page summary statement that describes your quilt
and explains how it represents the important ideas you have learned. In
addition, include at least three ways the quilt you created does not represent
important ideas about Colonial America.
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Steps for Completing
an Illustrated Quilt
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Step 1: Review notes
from this class and discuss classroom experiences to decide on your answer
to the project question:
What are the important ideas you learned about
in Colonial America?
Step 2: Decide what
best represents important ideas you have learned and whose perspective
does it represent.
Step 3: Review any key
ideas for each section and brainstorm how to connect them with the details
of the illustrated quilt.
Step 4: Draw a rough
sketch of your quilt and label each section. Also, include one page summary
statement and three differences. Review this rough draft with your teacher
so you can receive feedback before creating the final version.
Step 5: Create the final
version of the illustrated quilt project – use butcher paper to create
your quilt.
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Scoring Rubric for
Culminating Project
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A
| all requirements for both the
visual and written are completed
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| project is highly creative and
imaginative
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| project accurately represents
and reflects strong student understanding of important ideas about Colonial
America
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explanation and understanding
of important ideas learned and accurate representation of four elements
are both well developed in narrative and visual
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| project contains variety of quilt
elements to describe important ideas
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| project is striking to viewer
and has visual appeal
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| project is neat and relatively
free of grammatical errors
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B
| all requirements for both the
visual and written are completed
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| project is somewhat creative and
imaginative
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important ideas explanation
and accurate representation of four elements are somewhat developed
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| project contains some variety
of quilt elements
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| project reflects a solid but not
a thorough understanding of important ideas about Colonial America
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| grammatical errors and neatness
problems exist but do
NOT DOMINATE.
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C
| most, but not all, requirements
for visual and narrative are completed
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| project lacks sufficient creativity
or imagination
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important ideas explanation
and accurate representation of four elements present but not sufficiently
developed
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| project reflects little overall
student understanding of four parts of the quilt
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| project represents little variety
in quilt elements
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| grammatical errors and neatness
problems Dominate and indicate lack of effort
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D
| few requirements for project are
completed
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| project has no evidence of student’s
creativity or originality
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important ideas explanation
and accurate representation of four elements are non-existent
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| project looks like it was conceived
and born during third hour study hall
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