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\nEvaluating a Needlework Sampler as Historical Evidence\n

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\nNeedlework isn't just for home decor; it can also help record family history. Academics analyze a needlework sampler to understand how they were used to record marriages and births. The activity includes a series of written questions,...\n
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\nA Walk Through the Past: A Grave Undertaking\n

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\nStudents explore how historians construct a story out of fragments of the past; a discussion of nineteenth century poetry and art leads students to connect art and literature to their place in time.\n
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\nVisual Arts\n

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\nFourth graders study the stained glass produced for the Gothic cathedrals, needlework, castles, and tapestry of the Middle Ages.\n
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\nStitch It Up!\n

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\nEver think about combining the art forms of painting and embroidery? Then this art lesson is right up your alley! Given a piece of white cloth, young artists first create a grayscale painting and then highlight certain...\n
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\nWhat Does It All Mean?\n

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\nStudents investigate the symbolism and meaning of samplers in American history. In this American history and sampler lesson, students examine pictures of original samplers and look at lists of the symbolism included in them. They connect...\n
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\nWhat was School Like 100 Years Ago?\n

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\nFocussing on the Edwardian Era culture, students view photographs of students at school in the past and compare and contrast them to their school now. Students describe the differences in dress, classrooms, and classes.  This could...\n
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\nA Sample of What?\n

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\nStudents are introduced to the connection between women and the textile industry. Using primary source documents, they complete a handout on how gender roles have changed over the years. They examine a sampler which is connected to the...\n
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\nRosie the Riveter\n

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\nStudents identify and interpret the power of symbols. Then they research and identify what type of information that they can locate at the Library of Congress website and list what they learned from it in the time allotted. Students also...\n
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\nThe Active Learner: \"Dia's Story Cloth\" Literature Guide\n

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\nStudents discuss pre-reading focus questions and complete a KWL chart. In this language arts lesson, students mark passages or words they are unsure of with post-it notes to discuss later and answer comprehension questions after reading....\n
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\nLittle House in the Big Woods Chapter 5 Vocabulary Test\n

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\nIn this reading worksheet, students match 4 vocabulary words from Chapter 5 of Little House in the Big Woods to their definitions.\n
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\nDeerfield Debates Its Future: The Colonial Revival\n

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\nStudents analyze why the Colonial Revival came as a response to cultural changes caused by technological development, industrial growth, and changing populations in Deerfield and the Connecticut River Valley.\n
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\nRaise Your Flag\n

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\nStudents research the symbolism of flags and then apply what they have learned to create a flag that is a personal statement.\n
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\nMake a Statement\n

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\nFifth graders make a statement about their position on the Revolutionary War using various means of expression. One half of students remain loyal to England and the other half want a revolution for independence. They express themselves...\n
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\nSouthern Decorative Needlework\n

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\nAn account by Heather Palmer of the importance of the role of needlework in the lives of southern women during the nineteenth century.\n
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\nWonderful Stitches\n

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\nFeatures many resources that provide patterns and designs for needlepoint, cross-stitch and other forms of decorative stitching. Includes numerous links to other needlework and craft sites.\n
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\nBaldwin Library: The Illustrated Girl's Own Treasury by H. Tuck\n

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\nThis is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Illustrated Girl's Own Treasury by H. Tuck (1861), a handbook for girls including notable women of the Bible, needlework, materials, exercises, birds, and much...\n
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\nWeb Gallery of Art: Woman With Needlework\n

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\nAn image of \"Woman with Needlework\", created by Mary Cassatt from 1880-82 (Oil on canvas, 92 x 63 cm).\n
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\nMetropolitan Museum of Art: American Needleword in the Eighteenth Century\n

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\nA beautiful presentation of needlework from 1700s America, accompanied by an explanation of the type of education girls and young women received during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and how fabric arts were a prominent part of...\n
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\nA Guide to Needlepoint\n

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\nThis site provides you with all the knowledge, tools and techniques to do a successful needlepoint project. To find what you need to know to stitch on each type of canvas listed, click on that particular canvas.\n
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\nAmerican History: Outlines: Women's Rights\n

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\nSuch social reforms brought many women to a realization of their own unequal position in society. From colonial times, unmarried women had enjoyed many of the same legal rights as men, although custom required that they marry early. With...\n
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\nPeabody Essex Museum: The Art of American Embroidery\n

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\nAn exhibition overview about fiber arts. A selective history with representative examples of American Fiber Arts.\n
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\nNational Museum of Australia: Voyaging With a Needle: Embroidered Maps\n

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\nHand-embroidered map samplers, the work of women needle workers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, convey what was known of the world at the time and traces the routes of explorers, such as James Cook, who were then active....\n
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\nWiki How: How to Satin Stitch (Damask Stitch)\n

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\nThe satin stitch is a type of stitching where you stitch a series of stitches side by side to decorate a fabric or attach one fabric to another.\n
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\nHow to Cross Stitch\n

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\nSimple written and illustrated instrctions on how to do a basic cross stitch.\n
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