Middle Ages Arts: A Family Style Arts Program

Middle Ages Arts is an arts program that teaches students the history of art, while students are doing creative art projects. This course covers medieval through Renaissance painting, sculpture, music, stories, and architecture in Europe; Islamic art through the Colonial era; painting and architecture in China and Japan, dance and visual arts of the Pacific Islands; and carvings, paintings, and other visual arts of the American civilizations including the North American tribes, Olmec, Maya, and others. You will learn about paintings, sculptures, theater, architecture, folk arts, and music during this course.

This is not a text book; it is a resource book for adult mentors to use with students ages 6 to 18 years.

Nine Month-Long Units

Art Beginnings includes nine units, one for each month of your school year.

1. Early Medieval Art
2. Islamic Art
3. East Asian Arts
4. Art of the Islands
5. Late Medieval Art
6. Medieval Stories
7. Art of the Americas
8. Early Renaissance
9. High Renaissance

Each unit intentionally contains more information and activities than you will be able to complete. The mentor chooses among the options to design a course just for his or her students. Then, in four years, once the entire Layers of Learning cycle has been completed, you all return to the book and do new activities at a higher level of learning. This course was designed for multiple ages or abilities of students to learn together in a homeschool or classroom and contains activities that will appeal to little ones and to high schoolers, often at the same time.

A Printable Pack of worksheets, paper crafts, foldables, maps, and activities is included with this book. To retrieve the free Printable Pack, visit the product page at Layers-of-Learning.com, put the Printable Pack into your cart, and enter the coupon code found inside this book at checkout.