Arts in Time
"Each year the student will study a different historical
period of the arts.
In this way, the students learn the arts as they were
developed."
- James Moran, Founder -
Those
who complete five years in our Arts curriculum will have traveled through the
entire historical realm of the arts:
Year
1: Ancient
Year
2: Medieval-Renaissance
Year
3: Baroque
Year
4: Classical
Year
5: Romantic/Modern
Annual
Schedule:
Ancient (2002-20
Examples:
When
you teach your child the Ancient period of the arts using our curriculum, your
young student has a great time making an abacus, sandals, Greek masks, Roman
merchant ships, tablets with Greek letters, woven baskets, and a wind
instrument. The students see
pictures of the tablets and scrolls of the ancient Greeks and Hebrews; after
seeing them, they then can hear a CD of them.
The student makes a Greek mask for their drama class and learns about
the theatres, competitions, and festivals involving drama during the Greek
era. In history, the student receives a
Timeline (4000 B.C. to 476 A.D.), and is able to see how various developments
in the arts were influenced by the political and religious climate. They also see the influence perpetuated by
the cultures of the Babylonian, Egyptian, Israeli, Far Eastern, Greek, and
Roman empires.
When
studying the Medieval-Renaissance period of the arts, your young student enjoys
creating Pysancky eggs, Byzantine mosaics,
and drawings of Medieval architecture in art
class. In drama, they hear stories of Shakespeare and watch scenes
from Ivanhoe. They also present two performances for your family and
friends. In music, your child learns about neumes
(or Medieval notation) and tries to create their own
system of notation with assigned Scripture passages as the text.
During
our Medieval-Renaissance year, you and your child may take a field trip to Medieval Times in