Lesson 2: Story Quilt Project
Handout 4

Conflict Resolution Skills

The Patchwork Quilt
Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
The Keeping Quilt
 Tanya wants to help her grandmother make a special patchwork quilt out of scraps cut from the family's old clothes. After her grandmother becomes ill, Tanya decides to finish the patchwork quilt herself. Sam's conflict was not being allowed to join the women's quilting club. He resolved this by starting another quilting club for men. When both quilts get blown into the mud at the fair entrance gate, each group resolves their initial conflict by working together to salvage what was left and then cooperatively put together one "good" quilt. Before Clara turns 12, she is separated from her mother by slavery. She wants to find her mother and run north to freedom. She resolves this by verbally gathering information about the escape route, sewing the quilt map, memorizing the map, escaping her master, finding her mother and going north to Canada via the Underground Railroad