Hoggirl
02-22-2008, 06:50 PM
Okey-dokey. Next year we are doing Middle Ages, Renaissance, & Reformation. Fall of Rome to about 1600. I have pretty much figured out history (FINALLY!) I am going to do Biblioplan 3 days per week as scheduled and one day of church history using the History Lives series. On Fridays, I want to do something more project-y/fun. I do not really want to do a big ol' fat project every week. I would like to work on something that could be more of a semester or 12-week project with different aspects to it. For example, an on-going project related to knights. So, we would do projects that would cover, say, chivalry, weaponry, coats of arms, etc. However, I am not sure how to "do" this. Lapbooking and notebooking are out. My ds is just not into it. :( I would like to do maybe three areas of interest over the course of the year. What would be good, broad topics for this time period? I want cultural, how they lived, kind of stuff. Music, art, architecture, monastic life, theater, guilds, period literature, feasts, etc. I don't want to do ALL of these...just two or three over the course of the year. What would you choose and how would you schedule it? I know we could pick some that would be interesting to us, but I want to know before we start that there ARE plenty of resources available for that topic, kwim? I also don't want a lot of writing...we will be doing IEW Medieval Writing lessons so some of that could be incorporated. I would like projects or things that can be displayed with only short written descriptions or mini-reports. What have you done like this for this time period where you had good resources?
TIA!
TIA!