The following standards have been taken from the Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McRel) standards.

Students will:

• Understand how the rapid expansion of slavery changed American lives and led to regional tensions.
• Understand and know how to analyze chronological relationships and patterns.
• Understand historical perspective.
• Understand and apply basic properties of:
  
  
  • the concepts of measurements.
  • geometry.
  
  
• Use:


• a variety of strategies in the problem-solving process.
• stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing.
• grammatical and mechanical conventions in written compositions.
• reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of literary and informational texts.
• listening and speaking strategies for different purposes.
• viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media.
• electronic and print resources to discover how different people quilted, what materials they used, what kinds of messages they communicated, etc.


• Gather and use information for research purposes.
• Understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
• Analyze, compare, and contrast character motivation.
• Compare and contrast the reasons different people (from different generations, cultures, slave vs. free) chose to quilt.
• Investigate and evaluate how cultures change over time.
• Apply geometry and measurement skills to create quilt designs.