Year 2: the Medieval World to the Modern

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Tapestry of Grace™ Year 2 is your guide from the Medieval World to the Modern.

Explore the Middle Ages and more, from Byzantium to the New World. Tapestry of Grace is the award-winning homeschool curriculum that uses the history of the world to guide your whole family through an amazing humanities education. Want to know more? Explore Tapestry with video introductions and free samples!

Flip through a week-plan.

Want to see what a week of Tapestry looks like? Take a peek right now! You can turn the pages to get a good look at what Tapestry really looks like. Then, for a more in-depth trial, check out Go to Egypt, the free, 3-week sample that introduces and explains each section with annotations added by the author for moms exploring Tapestry for the first time!

Tapestry works for your whole family.

K–3rd graders get opportunities for lots of hands-on projects, storybooks, and read-alouds. 4th–6th graders get more independent work and interesting chapter books. 6th–9th graders get in more challenging assignments that help them make vital learning connections. 10th–12th graders get worldview discussions that will help them to succeed in life. Dad gets a family that is all on the same page, so he can lead them in a single educational conversation, and you get confidence and help to take your family on the adventure of the homeschoooling journey.

Scope & Sequence

What does Tapestry cover? Quite a lot! Take a look at this Scope & Sequence Chart for a broad overview of topics covered in Year 2 of Tapestry... and remember, each topic is taught to your child at the learning-level appropriate for them!

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Rhetoric Level Studies						Grammar/DIALECTIC
History	Literature		Government	Philosophy	Church History	Beyond History
History	Titles	Analysis	Government	Philosophy	Church History	Beyond History
Fall of Rome Byzantine Empire & Islam Charlemagne Viking Age Feudal System High Middle Ages Trade & Towns: Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East Pre-reformation lights	Medieval parables Medieval lyric poems Arabian Nights* Chanson de Roland Beowulf Inferno, Purgatorio* and Paradiso* (Dante) Piers Plowman* Canterbury Tales* (Chaucer) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Early Arthurian legends (Malory et al.)	Tools for studying these topics are taught and used throughout the year-plan for story, drama, and poetry analysis: Literary vocabulary Structures Modes Topics Themes Genres Devices Techniques Meters Characters Artistry Plots Settings Style Worldview analysis Historical literary movements Authors' lives	Code of Justinian Islamic government structure Alfred's Dooms Oaths of Fealty Magna Charta Summa Theologica* (Thomas Aquinas)	Augustine Boethius Mohammed Anselm Aquinas William of Ockham	The Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic internal hierarchy develops Strengthening of the papacy: crusades and ascendency Popes and princes Corruption in the Roman Catholic Church	Hands-on activities reinforce history lessons for these students Geography threads include maps and activities tied to History Historical fiction and picture books reinforce studies of various cultures Vocabulary words given weekly for grammar students reinforce History and Literature studies Follow-up worksheets are given for books read as Literature most weeks The history of artistic styles is woven into History lessons. In Unit 2, a studio art thread is offered. Weekly writing assignments are keyed to History topics Many grammar students enjoy Lampstand Press lapbook products which parallel and reinforce weekly history topics Dialectic students may choose to reinforce their work using History Portfolios and time line products (sold on Bookshelf Central)
The Southern Renaissance The Age of Exploration The Northern Renaissance The Reformation: its effects on Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Scotland, and England The Counter Reformation	Sonnets (Petrarch, Wyatt, Shakespeare) Renaissance poetry* Faerie Queene* English medieval plays Doctor Faustus (Marlowe) Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, King Lear, The Tempest (Shakespeare)		The Prince (Machiavelli) On Secular Authority (Martin Luther) On Civil Government (John Calvin)	Machiavelli Copernicus Erasmus Luther More Trent Francis Bacon	Roman Catholic missionary activity during the Age of Exploration The Reformation: theological stances and issues The Counter Reformation
The founding and settlement of the thirteen original American colonies The English Civil War Absolutism in Europe New France in America	Don Quixote* (Cervantes) Pilgrim's Progress, Part I (Bunyan) 17th-Century English poets (Donne et al.) Paradise Lost (Milton)		Founding documents of American government from the colonial era Parallel developments in English laws and government Rise of absolutism	Galileo Descartes Pascal Hobbes Locke Edwards Spinoza Newton	Puritan culture and beliefs Developments concerning religion in Colonial America Jonathan Edwards
French and Indian Wars Declaring Independence The Revolutionary War The new nation under the Articles of Confederation The Constitution Presidents Washington and Adams The French Revolution	Tartuffe (Moliere) Phaedra (Racine) Dryden's poetry* Gulliver's Travels (Swift) The Rape of the Lock (Pope) Selected poems (Cowper, Gray, Smart)		Declaration of Independence Articles of Confederation United States Constitution Declaration of the Rights of Man Bill of Rights Federalist papers Reflections on the Revolution in France (Edmund Burke)	Berkeley Adam Smith Voltaire Rousseau Hume Kant	Wesley and Whitefield American denominations develop