Making story quilts is one way that communities have worked together to tell their stories and bring about healing. After Hurricane Katrina, the staff at the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center in Mississippi want to do something to help their community. They are going to different schools to work with children who have experienced the hurricane. The children were making artwork expressing their thoughts and feelings about the disaster. The staff then scanned the artwork, printed it on fabric, and were sewing the blocks into eight different quilts. Another example of a quilt used as a healing exercise is the AIDS memorial quilt. The AIDS memorial quilt, a huge ongoing project, will serve as a memorial to people who die from AIDS. Individual panels were made by the loved ones of those who have died. Since it was created in 1995, the quilt is growing to include more than 46,000 panels. When they are received, the panels were assembled into twelve-foot by twelve-foot blocks and sewn together. At over a million square feet, this memorial quilt is the biggest piece of community folk art in the world.

You are to write a five paragraph literary essay based on one of the 4 prompts and what you have read and learned in this module. these are your options: 1. how do the events of "the white umbrella" teach the narrator a lesson about shame and acceptance? 2. what role does creativity play in "the bat-poet"? 3. how does the character of squeaky change over the course of "raymond's run"? 4. discuss the influences of older family members on the protagonists and speakers in the stories and poems of this unit. you are to write a five paragraph literary essay based on what you have read and learned in this module. your final submission should meet the following requirements. • submit completed pre-writing and outline documents. • write an essay that contains an introduction with hook and thesis statement, supporting paragraphs with evidence and at least one quotation, and a conclusion that restates the thesis and reviews main points. • use transitions appropriate to the pattern of organization. • use vocabulary to create tone and voice. • cite primary source (quotation). • submit completed revision checklist. • vary sentence structure. • create sentences with parallel structures. • use technology in the writing process.