![]() Invite students to think of a story about their own lives that they would like to tell in a quilt square.Ask the students: How do the quilts from the warm-up story and the Hopkins family tell stories? What stories do they tell? Emphasize how both quilts tell the stories of their creators and families. ![]() Point out the ship that reflects the fact that Elizabeth’s husband was a seaman the musical instruments that suggest a comfortable home and the geometric shapes that make up the flower baskets, the fruit, snowflakes, hearts, stars, and borders. Using the About the Art section, explain how many of the objects reflect the Hopkins family. Ask students what colors, shapes, and objects they see. Show the class the Hopkins Album Quilt.Like Elizabeth Hopkins’s quilt, the quilt in the book tells a story and is a record of the family that created, used, and loved it. Over the years the quilt is used as a tent, a Shabbat table cloth, a wedding huppa, and of course, as a quilt. This book tells the story of a Jewish immigrant family that creates a quilt out of scraps of clothing from the great-grandmother’s quilting bee. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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