We have been using the Tapestry of Grace curriculum plans for four years now and one area that I am always supplementing is the area of art and music appreciation. It isn't that they don't offer a smattering of art and music appreciation. They do. It just isn't enough for our family. :)
So if you are interested here are our plans for the first unit of Year Two.
Art Appreciation topics and projects
We will be using the pages in the Story of Painting and the Story of Architecture as assigned in the Tapestry of Grace plans. I have two periods for art scheduled each week. Each period is one hour long.
Week 1 Celtic Illumination: We Googled "Book of Kells" and viewed the images that came up and then we decided to make our own illuminated initials. We used this website as a reference.
http://www.godecookery.com/clipart/clart.htm
Weeks 2 and 3 We Googled "Byzantine tile designs" and viewed the images. Afterwards, we used this lesson plan to make our own mosaic projects. Mosaic Tile designs http://dickblick.com/lessonplans/glassmosaic/
Week 4 Coat of Arms: We made our own coat of arms using this book Design Your Own Coat of Arms
Week 5 and 6 Viking Sculpey project: We found images online of items the boys wanted to make and then they used Sculpey to model them. One made a Viking dragon ship's masthead. The other made a model of a Viking sword.
Week 7 Gothic Arch model-We used Legos to build a Gothic style arch and that turned into a whole cathedral out of Legos. http://www.weirdrichard.com/activities7.html
Week 8 Chinese Art- We are going to use this book Chinese Brush Painting. I am in the process of making a Squidoo lens on this topic.
Week 9 Stained Glass- We will be viewing stained glass online and then creating our own "stained glass" window using Crayola Washable Window Markers.
Week 10 Limbourg Brothers: Online link to view paintings
After viewing the artwork, the boys will write up a short biography using this page Limbourg Brothers and they will use the website's coloring sheet to make their own drawing of a piece of their artwork.
We will be putting all the artwork together at our Unit Celebration in a few weeks. I will post photos of our projects at that time.
Music Appreciation Topics
They will do the readings in the book Music: An Appreciation as planned in the Tapestry of Grace plans. In addition, they will complete 20-30 minutes of listening each week to the following music as part of a study of the overall topic of "Early Music". (We use Naxos.com and listen online but check your library for any CDs they may have that you can borrow.)I have one period scheduled each week for music appreciation and it is 45 minutes long.
Edit to add: All the listings are for music selections to listen to. I first check my library to see if they have any CDs to borrow for the topic or composer. We also listen to all our music online. If you would like the Naxos catalogue numbers, I will add them below.
Week 1 Gregorian chant-Naxos 8.554580
Week 2 Gregorian chant
Week 3 Palestrina-Naxos 8.550573
Week 4 Palestrina
Week 5 William Byrd-Naxos 8.550604
Week 6 Thomas Weelkes-Naxos 8.553209
Week 7 Francois Couperin-Naxos 8.550460
Week 8 Johann Pachelbel-Naxos 8.550104
Week 9 Johann Pachelbel
Week 10 Free week-listen as they wish
I hope someone can benefit from my additional planning. I hope to share each unit as I get it pulled together. We are *really* enjoying our art and music appreciation this year and it shows in my boys enthusiasm and their willingness to put forth lots of effort. I am having fun too so that is a great bonus!
Barb-Harmony Art Mom
Friday, August 22, 2008
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8 comments:
Being new to ToG, I am so very impressed with the abilities as well as the willingness of people like you to share your hard work. Thanks be to God!
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There are two truths foundational to human enlightenment: there is one God and we are not He. --RRL
Thanks so much for sharing this information! We are also doing Y2 U1 this coming year (my first year using TOG!) and I was in the process of trying to figure this stuff out. This is so helpful!!
PS...We made it to Davis today! :0)
Hello!
I am thrilled at your postings on Art & Music! Thank you so very much.
Our family is in our fifth year of using the Tapestry of Grace and find ourselves back in Year 2. I have just one Rhetoric student left but Co-lead a Co-op with four Rhetoric, six Dialectic, and ten or so Grammar students.
I recently purchased Music: An Appreciation, it is the first edition and looks wonderful - a fabulous resource! However, I was concerned with the pages (since we will not have the same edition as ToG's assignment pages) and also that the ToG doesn't recommend listening, so doesn't have any suggestions. Personally, as a vocalist, I found this quite disappointing.
As I began to prepare to correlate what I could, a dear friend sent me this link.
I am so grateful for your sharing, thank you so much.
I do have a question: in Week 1, do you mean that I look up a section in Music: An Appreciation, on "Chants"?
thank you again!!!
In His Service,
Caryl
Caryl,
If you look on the Loom, they have the updated page numbers for Music: An Appreciation.
I also edited my post to add the specific music that we listen to for our music appreciation. We listen on Naxos.com but you could pick up any CD for these composers. Try looking up "early music" at your library or on Amazon.com and you may find a compilation for these composers.
Enjoy,
Barb-Harmony Art mom
Barb,
Thank You! I will be using what you wrote next week!
Caryl
Barb,
Thank You! I will be using what you wrote next week!
Caryl
Hi Barb! You don't know me, but I was drawn to your blog by a friend of mine in Louisville, KY. I decided to use Tapestry of Grace this year. but decided this week to put it up and just start with Staroy of the World from the beginning because we got so far behind with Tapestry of Grace and did not take advantage of all of the wonderful projects etc. I got too overhwhelmed with it. Lookin gat your blog made it look so easy, but your children are at a different place than mine are right now. I have 8 children ranging from age 15 to 3 months. my three oldest boys are in public school, so I am homeschooling my 9 and almost 6 year old. The younger children are 4, 2 and 3 months. Do you mentor families? I think I am just too overwhlemed right now with all the little ones, schooling my children and keeping a house that I don;t have time to really school my kids the way I want to or believe I should. I found that your blog represents the dream I have of homeschooling and would love to get there at some point. Are you planning on using Tapestry next year? I am asking that because I am using Year 2 this year and would love to follow you next year since I am so behind. What week are you on this week in Tapestry? Maybe I will decide to just pick it up again. Sorry for the long post. I was just happy to be led to your blog.
Becky in KY
Hi Becky,
Why don't you email me and we can chat about TOG?
harmonyfinearts@yahoo.com
Barb
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