Summary:
A young slave girl slowly gathers bits and pieces of information, and cloth, and stitches together a map to her family as well as freedom.

Personal reaction:
The story makes you see just how desperate people were to get away from such awful conditions. Also how the community came together to help Clara make an accurate map while keeping it all hushed gives you an example of the support you could get from your community.

Class extensions
Bring in a ral quilt to show your students the handy work and the beautiful. Craft in person (not May kids see quilts anymore).

Have children color squares and glue or staple together a class quilt.

Take a tour of the school, when they get back in class see how well they canrem beer what they saw and make a map of school. ( )