Today we began a Waldorf homeschool unit on Renaissance Biographies. I am new to this lesson and will post what I do along the way. Here are some of the resources I am using:
Live Ed! Renaissance Biographies
This website recommended these books:
And some Netflix movies!
Today we did a recap discussion of the crusades influence on the Renaissance. Also we talked about the Medici family (I need to recheck the beautiful book about them from my local library....). I hope to cover da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo. Maybe Botticelli, because I love him.
We watched a Netflix movie about Leonardo da Vinci. ( I had planned to wait a few days on this...) We got into a really great talk about what his religion and sexual orientation was.
Finally we looked at this website and the boys drew/painted a picture of Il Duomo in their main lesson books.
Have you done a junior high type unit like this? I'd love to hear about it!
What fun! I want to be your student, too. :-) Anna picked up a copy of The Odyssey (in cartoon) on Thursday at the library. It actually looks so nice! I'm certainly not going to tell her that 7 year olds can't read The Odyssey.
ReplyDeleteMorgan Finn checked out Moby Dick a few years back and still insists that he read it through. And if he thinks that makes him cool, I'm not going to argue.
ReplyDeleteAlso, just saw a punctuation mistake when rereading this- you sure do keep me on my toes!
Inspirational! I just handed poor Aragorn an "8th Grade Biographies" book today from a Waldorf source. Now to find something fun to go with it!
ReplyDeleteHere was our US History Block earlier in the year: http://www.ahomeschoolstory.com/2011/10/american-history.html