The Keeping Quilt is about a girl telling the story of her great grandmother. She tells the story of how her grandmother comes to America from Russia and how she misses home so much, her mother makes her a quilt out of her relatives things to remind her of home. The quilt ends up becoming a keepsake in their family and is used for weddings and babies for generations to come. This story is a great introduction to immigration and different cultures in primary classrooms. I would use this story to start a unit on immigration and different cultures in a younger classroom.

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