In Tapestry, colors have meanings! Look at the top of each page of your week-plan to check its section. Here's a quick-reference guide to the colors and their meanings:


Look at the bottom of charts and Student Activity Pages to see learning level indicators:

What is a week-plan?

What is a week-plan? It’s a plan of study for one typical school week, based on the pace that a high school student must keep in order to cover all of world history, literature, church history, government, philosophy, and arts in a four-year time frame.

Remember, you are the teacher! Tapestry is your tool, not your master. Each week-plan presents a veritable educational buffet of options: reading assignments, activities, questions to answer, writing assignments, and more! What does all this mean? As with any buffet, you simply can’t eat it all. You must customize this curriculum to your unique family. No one student will do all the suggested reading and activities.

How do you choose? This is a question that many teachers ask. The answer is, “you just have to try it.” While exploring Tapestry will give you confidence to begin, you’ll gain far more expertise at customizing Tapestry by simply starting school with your first week-plan and learning to tweak as you go! Be patient with yourself and your students. It takes time to learn new ways of doing school. But the rewards are worth the effort!