Co-op in Review: October 29, 2015

An important sub-era of the Renaissance is the Age of Exploration.  For the next two weeks, our history students will be studying, reading about, discussing and doing projects related to exploration. As crusaders returned from the East, bringing books and products, an interest in expanding trade routes exploded in Europe.  That combined with the new interest in learning and art, brought an intense desire to discover and explore the world.  We will see through this study how God used ordinary human beings, some with Godly motives, some with selfish motives, to introduce European culture to the rest of the world.  The Rhetoric students dove deep into discussions about these topics. and worked on a Renaissance sketching project.  The Dialectic class started a three week long project, making maps of exploration out of pumpkins.  The Upper Grammar class and the Lower Grammar class both made and used compasses.  The FIAR kids read the book, "The Runaway Bunny."  They then made Boo Boo Bunnies, to help soothe their scrapes and bruises!