Co-op in Review: November 5, 2015

This was our second week studying the fabulous adventures of brave explorers.  The Age of Exploration represented an explosion of information that fundamentally changed the horizons of Europeans.  We will discuss and learn about the motives of the explorers.  And, learn about the shift from pure exploration to a desire to conquer people and colonize new lands.   The Rhetoric class discussion focused more on the cultural and religious shifts during the Renaissance.  The Dialectic class continued to work on their pumpkin maps.  The Upper Grammar class did some mapping activities and a fun battleship-like activity with explorer ships.  The Lower Grammar class made map grids of the world.  And, the FIAR class read the book, "Caps for Sale."  It's the tale of a peddler, some monkeys and some funny monkey business!  The kids then made cute paintings of the trees where the monkeys pulled their antics!