Mrs. Renz's 4th Grade Class  Redmond, Oregon

 

Oregon Trail Stories

April - May 2008

Students wrote stories as if they were traveling the Oregon Trail.  They selected a quilt design for their book cover and ironed the fabric onto muslin, then glued it to a piece of cardboard for the book cover and back. 

Evaluation Sheet    Quilt Designs    Supply pictures    Note taking sheet with story requirements   Rough Draft Paper

Making the Book Covers with the Quilt Pieces

These are the finished books. 

Notice the different quilt designs on the cover.