1. Warm-Up

2. Gallery Walk Tape your poster on the wall
Everyone will get one post-it notes
Gallery Walk (5 mins)
Find a posters you really like and write a positive comment on your post-it then stick it on the poster
***EVERYONE SHOULD REACT POSITIVELY TO THEIR CLASSMATES***

3. Learning Focus
Silently read the Learning Focus on page 4. Circle anything you think might be important
Answer Essential Questions 1 and 2 on page 5
Think-Pair-Share
Quilting Bubble Map
Graphic Organizer pg. 6

4. My Mother Pieced Quilts
In the poem the speaker uses images of quilts and quilting to show connections to bother her mother and her heritage as a Mexican American
Interesting fact: Quilts were originally necessary objects, but over time they have become cherished cultural objects. Today, quilting is considered an important form of artistic expression.

5. My Mother Pieced Quilts
Read the poem
draw an illustration for each stanza which you will then share with your group
Group discussion: Why is this memory significant to the speaker? How does the poet use imagery to convey the significance of the memory?

6. Identify:
Topic of the poem
Purpose of the poem
Occasion

7. My Mother Pieced Quilts
Reread the poem
Each group has a responsibility for identifying the following in the poem:
Nouns—yellow
Verbs—blue
Adjectives—orange
Adverbs—green
Pronouns—purple
Articles--circle

8. My Mother Pieced Quilts
Select
one noun,
one verb,
one adjective, and
one adverb
Look each word up in the dictionary to give the denotations (meanings) of the word
Then give as many connotations (suggestions/feelings with that word) as you can

9. My Mother Pieced Quilts
Using the same words give 3 synonyms for each (you may use a thesaurus)
Explain why you think Acosta chose the particular word she did rather than one of the synonyms
Explain how the poem would be affected if Wright had used one of the synonyms

10. My Mother Pieced Quilts
Pick the most significant word in the poem regardless of its part of speech, and discuss why you think this one word is so important
Answer questions 3-4 on page 9 with your group