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Characters
Events
Comprehension Questions
Vocabulary
Terms of the South
100
Who is the main character in this story?
Who is "Sweet Clara"
100
Where does Clara get moved on the first page of the book?
Home Plantation
100
What is Clara?
A slave on a plantation
100
The right to choose
Freedom
100
Big House
The big house on a plantation where the plantation owner and his family lives
200
Who was Sweet Clara taken away from when she was forced to move to Home Plantation?
Her mother
200
What does Aunt Rachel start teaching Clara to do?
To sew and become a seamstress!
200
Is Clara naturally good at sewing or is she clumsy at first because her hands are sore from being in the fields?
She is very clumsy from hoeing and weeding the fields.
200
Marked with Spots or color
Calico
200
Slaves
People that work for the plantation owner in the fields and in the Big House
300
Who works with Clara in the fields on the plantation? (He is her good friend)
Young Jack
300
Where does Clara start working after she learns to sew?
Inside the Big House
300
Where is Home Plantation?
In the South
300
Cheery
To be happy or pleasant :)
300
Underground Railroad
A network of slaves who worked together to plan a big escape to freedom in the North
400
Who teaches Sweet Clara all about sewing and being a seamstress and takes care of her at Home Plantation?
Aunt Rachel
400
Where does Clara end up at the end of the book?
Canada
400
Does Clara take the quilt with her when she escapes?
No, she leaves it at Home Plantation to hopefully help other slaves escape also.
400
Stitches
Loops of thread through fabric
400
Master
Someone who owns slaves
500
Who teaches Sweet Clara all about the Underground Railroad, Canada, and the path to freedom?
The cooks, helpers, and servants
500
What event makes her start thinking about creating the quilt and escaping the plantation?
Hearing the cooks and servants talk about Canada and freedom
500
What did Clara want to create through sewing her quilt?
A map to the north (Canada) and freedom
500
Contrary
The opposite of, different
500
Overseer
Someone who keeps an eye on the slaves on the plantation and punishes them, their boss is the plantation owner.