Learn about the glory and reign of Egypt, the kingdom that stood powerfully for a millennium. The apex of human achievement in the ancient Mediterranean world, its government and art were unparalleled in its time. This week, use Tapestry's integrated approach to study the integrated relationship between pharaohs, pyramid construction, mummification, and beliefs about the afterlife. Learn about the Pharaohs who built monuments to their own glory, still standing today. This was Egypt at its zenith - go there with Tapestry of Grace.
Click below to find sample lesson plans, showing how you might break up the assignments listed above throughout the week! Please note that Tapestry does not provide similar lesson plans for other weeks ... these are just for you to see how you might do it.*
Week 2 Third Printing
Here you can print this entire week-plan so you can have it in your hands as we take our tour!
In this sample week, the sticky-notes are color-coded to show how Tapestry can meet the specific needs of various students in your home. For lower grammar students (approximately grades 1–3), look at red notes; for upper grammar students (approximately grades 4–6), read yellow ones. Green notes apply to dialectic level students (6–9), and blue are for rhetoric level students (9–12). Is your child a delayed, or gifted learner? Read the track below or above his "grade level" and consider whether or not this track would serve him.
Flexibility is one of the core concepts on which Tapestry of Grace is built. Your family is unique, and your weekly schedule can and should vary from the schedules of other families.
Because of our immense respect for the full and varied schedule of homeschoolers, Tapestry does not schedule assignments day by day. You won't find a Monday reading assignment followed by a Tuesday craft assignment; Tapestry assigns work by the week, and allows you to shape your school's schedule in a way that fits your family best.
Map Aids is a geography supplement which provides an easy-to-print PDF of every map and answer key assigned in Tapestry.
Writing Aids is a writing handbook covering every writing genre assigned in Tapestry with explanations, direction, grading helps, and graphic organizers.
Evaluations are history tests and quizzes for Tapestry and their answer keys.
Lapbooks are activity folders made of colorful booklets you either assemble from pre-printed kits or print yourself. Reinforces learning in a fun new way!
Pop Quiz are 15-minute audio summaries of what students are studying each week of Tapestry, and question cards designed to start great conversations.
To get you started structuring your week, we strongly recommend the "Read — Think — Write" method, which you'll find all throughout Tapestry. This suggests that you lead your kids through assignments in that order; first they read assignments (possibly trying to finish their reading in the first half of the week), then they think through topics with you in discussion in the middle of the week, and then finally, they respond to what they have read and discussed by writing (or, for your younger students, making crafts!) in the latter half of the week.
This organizational method will provide your students time to digest assignments and respond thoughtfully. It will also give you a great way to think through breaking up a week of assignments in Tapestry of Grace.
