The Renaissance

The 7th grade "Age of Discovery" main lesson block encompasses the Age of Exploration, the Renaissance, and the Reformation. There is a lot of content, so I'll do a post for each! Here are the resources we used and liked this year:

Our main text was

A Child's History of the World by V.M. Hillyer
(published by Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1951)



chap 62 - Born Again

I also like

The Age of Discovery
by Charles Kovacs
(which can be used as a main text for this entire 3-part block)

chap 35 - The Renaissance

chap 36 - Leonardo: Childhood and Youth

chap 37 - Leonardo in Florence and Milan

chap 38 - The Last Supper

chap 39 - Inventions and the Mona Lisa

chap 40 - Raphael and Michelangelo



The World of Columbus and Sons
by Genevieve Foster
(which can be used as a main text for this entire 3-part block)



Metropolis: Ten Cities, Ten Centuries
by Albert Lorenz
"Florence, 16th century"
"The High Renaissance"
"The New Athens"
"Two Masters"



Da Vinci's Challenge Board Game



The Artist's Guide to Perspective
by Janet Shearer
exercise 1 is simple and only requires a pencil and a stepladder
for us, the sidewalks on neighboring streets Hawthorne & Glenview worked well



Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer
by Robert Byrd



Leonardo da Vinci for Kids: His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities
by Janis Herbert



Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions: You Can Build Yourself
by Maxine Anderson
we made "The Camera Obscura," pp.52-55



Leonardo and the Flying Boy
by Laurence Anholt



The Second Mrs. Gioconda
by E.L. Konigsburg
(historical fiction)

"Could the complex ways these three lives intertwine hold the key to a historical riddle as enigmatic as the Mona Lisa's smile -- why Leonardo da Vinci devoted three years to a painting of the second wife of an unimportant merchant when all the nobles of Europe were begging for a portrait by his hand?"

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