As promised in yesterday’s post, here is how we made our diorama. I had felt a little overwhelmed right from the start of this project and as I didn’t want the children feeling the same I tried to break it down into manageable sections for them: First, we brainstormed all our ideas on the white……
Category: Literature Study – Dante
Literature Study – Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno
Dante is a risky piece of literature to study with 10 and 11 year olds. There is much in there which I should thoroughly disapprove of exposing them to at their tender age. And yet I have found myself drawn to the learning possibilities. In the Inferno, Dante wrote about his views on Hell, some think as……
Picture Study: Botticelli’s Map of Hell
Source The parchment was completed by Botticelli between 1480 and 1490, using the technique of the silver tip and coloured pencils. This will be the first time we have ever studied anything coloured in with pencils! The Map of Hell is one of seven of Botticelli’s parchments currently kept in the Vatican library in Rome. Although many artists have tried……
Studying Dante’s Divine Comedy (Medieval Unit Study)
I know I’ve said it before, but I truly love our literature studies. There is something quite magical about gathering together, opening a great book, and allowing words written centuries ago to come alive in our home. Over the years we have explored many classic works together, but this term we decided to take on something……
Importance of Picture Books for Learning Great Literature
Studying great literature has to be one of my most favourite times in home school. I think because I design our own studies, it gives us lots of freedoms that following a curriculum of any type would remove. I am able to keep it simple, complex or anywhere in between. We don’t have to ascribe……