I was thrilled to get a chance to review the Digital Edition of the Textbook and Teacher Guide: The Master and His Apprentices: Art History from a Christian Perspective from The Master and His Apprentices.
What is The Master and His Apprentices?
The curriculum starts with an introduction that describes how God is the Master artist and creator, and all other artwork uses an object that God created. The first lessons are days of creation and related artwork. Additional periods covered include:
Ancient Cultures - Ancient Near East, Egyptians and Aegean
Classical Antiquity - Early Greek, Etruscan and Roman
Middle Ages - Medieval and Islamic, Early Christian and Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic
Renaissance - Proto-Renaissance, Early Italian Renaissance, High Italian Renaissance and Northern Renaissance
Baroque and Beyond - Baroque, Rococo to Today/Modern Art and Global Highlights/Non-Western Art
This is a 36-week full high school credit course. Basically, you are assigned to read chapters, come together to discuss, write 4 papers on various art-related subjects, complete worksheets, and exams. When it is complete, the student receives 1 art credit at a high school level.
Three very cool things about this curriculum that I especially love:
First - This is a biblical, Christian worldview approach to art history. There is no inappropriate, nudity, or questionable pictures included.
Second - It is written by a homeschool graduate.
Third - It ties together art history with biblical events
Three very cool things about this curriculum that I especially love:
First - This is a biblical, Christian worldview approach to art history. There is no inappropriate, nudity, or questionable pictures included.
Second - It is written by a homeschool graduate.
Third - It ties together art history with biblical events
I received:
Textbook in PDF digital download format - 380 pages
Teacher Guide for The Master and His Apprentices in PDF digital download format - 116 pages including exams and answer key
and special PRINT/PHOTOCOPY RIGHTS for my household
The course is intended to be used for a full high school credit, working at a rate of a chapter a week.
The textbook contains colorful pictures of artwork along with daily lesson readings. The first thing you do is read the segment in the textbook, and then discuss what you learned. The Pieces By Location section in the appendix could be used as a bit of a travel guide as it is organized to include works by region.
The readings included in the text are followed by worksheets that are included in the Teacher Guide. The Teacher Guide also includes discussion questions and exams along with an answer key and some other goodies, like a section of Terms to Describe Art page which I printed to have on hand for use with my daughter to further become familiar with art vocabulary as we flip through to talk about the different art pieces.
Textbook in PDF digital download format - 380 pages
Teacher Guide for The Master and His Apprentices in PDF digital download format - 116 pages including exams and answer key
and special PRINT/PHOTOCOPY RIGHTS for my household
The course is intended to be used for a full high school credit, working at a rate of a chapter a week.
The textbook contains colorful pictures of artwork along with daily lesson readings. The first thing you do is read the segment in the textbook, and then discuss what you learned. The Pieces By Location section in the appendix could be used as a bit of a travel guide as it is organized to include works by region.
The readings included in the text are followed by worksheets that are included in the Teacher Guide. The Teacher Guide also includes discussion questions and exams along with an answer key and some other goodies, like a section of Terms to Describe Art page which I printed to have on hand for use with my daughter to further become familiar with art vocabulary as we flip through to talk about the different art pieces.
How Did We Use It?
While I do have a high school sophomore who needs an art course, I chose my 7th grader who absolutely eats, breathes, and lives art to help me with the review, as I felt she could handle the material even though she is not yet in high school. Though, I would recommend if your child is not obsessed with the topic of art like she is that it may be best to get the most out of it to wait until they are at a high school level as it may be a bit advanced for other middle schoolers. I was excited that it came with all of the tools I needed to properly instruct and test the subject as well as a textbook download that was of high school level, but still seemed like a level my 7th grader could follow. I skimmed through both the text and the teacher guide before deciding how to present it to my daughter, so I got a really good overview of what is included and how to use the curriculum. Fueled with all of the curriculum pieces I needed, I then sat down with my daughter.
What I found especially fascinating and useful were the timelines included that connected specific periods of art with biblical times.
What I found especially fascinating and useful were the timelines included that connected specific periods of art with biblical times.
What Did We Think?
Wahoo! That was my initial reaction and the reaction that remains after using it. This is so well put together and packed with tons of information done in such a tasteful way so as not to offend my beliefs. In fact, I am hungry for art history, or any subject for that matter, curriculum that weaves in the spiritual aspects. So, this curriculum was very welcome in our household. While, this is a fitting level for my art-obsessed daughter, and if the parent reads it aloud, a younger child will probably do well to be exposed to the information at a younger age, as I began to delve into the meat of the program, I did find it very appropriate to be labeled as an adult or high school level, and the writer of the curriculum makes this clear from the beginning. I say this not because of any inappropriate pictures or art forms but rather because of its depth of information and spiritual ideas that takes a more mature mind to fully grasp for open discussion, paper writing, and complete comprehension of the subject.
The book is filled with beautiful pictures and in-depth descriptions. I also thought it was really cool that the curriculum includes a travel guide so you can explore artwork in regions where you vacation or take a virtual trip around the world led by works of art.
The book is filled with beautiful pictures and in-depth descriptions. I also thought it was really cool that the curriculum includes a travel guide so you can explore artwork in regions where you vacation or take a virtual trip around the world led by works of art.
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