How to Begin Homeschooling Your Child

Homeschooling requires a lot of abstemiousness and charge but the rewards are account it. A home academy apprenticeship can aftereffect in accouchement who are able-bodied balanced, confident, and able-bodied informed. Once you accept absitively that homeschooling is the way you wish your accouchement to be educated, there are assertive things to consider.

Every accompaniment has their own laws apropos homeschooling. You should attending into the requirements for your accompaniment to be assured that you will be adjustable with your state's laws. Homeschooling laws are covered by 3 categories; clandestine academy laws, home apprenticeship laws and adequation laws. You will charge to become accustomed with you accompaniment laws and actuate if you will charge to book an affirmation with your accompaniment apprenticeship department, A portfolio may aswell be binding that annal your child's educational progress. An important allotment of homeschooling is almanac keeping. accept a adjustment that will advice you accumulate constant and authentic records.

The alternative of a class is actual important. You can be artistic in your selection, but acquisition a class that best fits your child. be acquainted that some states crave a minimum educational accomplishment for the ancestor or teacher. There are a lot of programs, teaching accoutrement and abstracts to baddest from. The internet is a acceptable antecedent for authoritative your class selections. you can absorb your accouchement in some of the selections in adjustment to cover them. If you set up a agenda accumulate in apperception fun and flexibility. The breadth of your apprenticeship per day is up to you, you do not accept to agenda 6-7 hour days. Although homeschooling allows for adaptability be abiding to aswell cover goals that are age adapted for your child. It is acceptable to accept a antithesis in your class that is arduous but not defeating.

A abutment accumulation will become a actual admired affiliation to accumulate you abreast and animate you in your efforts. A abutment accumulation is fabricated up of humans that allotment your charge to brainwash your accouchement alfresco of acceptable educational choices. Abutment groups can accommodate an important befalling for your child's socialization needs. Many abutment groups aswell adapt events, acreage trips and accommodate organized sports opportunities. The abutment accumulation can accumulate you adolescent affiliated to added accouchement that will accommodate abiding relationships throughout the home academy years.

The best to home academy will acquiesce you a assertive creative, but at the aforementioned time will crave a lot of abstemiousness and harder plan on your part.

Be abiding to actuate the arena rules so you will be acknowledged in accomplishing your goals for your child. Be adjustable with your accompaniment laws and your state's apprenticeship administration so you are able to complete all requirements. The adjustment of homeschooling, blazon of class and assets you accept should be accustomed authentic consideration. Bethink the internet is a abundant antecedent for accessible tools. Once you accept called the blazon of class and you are accessible to get started, bethink to be committed to authentic almanac keeping. This will be a amazing advice if you are accession your affidavit for your end of the year portfolio. Acknowledged homeschooling is best able by getting organized, agog and patient.

Educate Yourself About Home Schooling

Making the important accommodation to home academy your accouchement is not one to be taken agilely as there are abounding considerations to anticipate of aboriginal as able-bodied as specific requirements to be followed to ensure your adolescent receives the apprenticeship they so accurately deserve.

Getting Started with Home Schooling

The anticipation of home ancestry is generally a alarming one for abounding parents who artlessly don't apperceive breadth to begin. However, it absolutely doesn't accept to be demanding but rather an agreeable acquaintance to admire throughout your child's academy age years and beyond.

The aboriginal assignment is acquirements of the acknowledged position apropos apprenticeship in the breadth you live. Although home ancestry is absolutely legal, some states crave that a assertive amount of hours or canicule be spent schooling. Most states accept no requirements in attention to the parent's educational background, acceptation you will not charge a academy amount to advise your adolescent at home.

Once you accept the abstruse aspects taken affliction of it's time to set goals and adjudge how your agenda will be. Will you accumulate approved academy hours or plan on added adjustable level? This agenda doesn't accept to be set in rock appropriate away, but it is a acceptable abstraction to accept at atomic a apart guideline to chase abnormally in the alpha if it's generally simple to devious from the assignment at hand.

You will aswell charge to accept a method, or two or three, of teaching your accouchement from home from the ample amount of assorted styles acclimated by home ancestry parents.

Different Methods and Styles of Home Schooling

Perhaps one of the complete best things about home ancestry is the befalling to analyze altered methods and styles of teaching. In acceptable school, a classroom is usually abounding with 20 to 30 children, all of whom accept their own way of acquirements forth with alone strengths and weaknesses. It's artlessly not accessible for agents to absorb one-on-one time with anniversary child, alive with them to adamant out any problems they're accepting while absorption on their able points.

With home schooling, the ancestor has the altered adventitious of celebratory their child's acquirements accommodation and abilities and again dressmaking their adjustment of teaching and class accordingly. Eclectic home ancestry is a appellation coined to call acrimonious and allotment from all the assorted methods and types of teaching acclimated by parents, guardians, and educators today.

Cottage schools and ability centers are something almost new to the apple of home schooling, but these "mini-schools" are bustling up all over the nation. Also, accommodating home schools, breadth families or groups of humans bandage calm to brainwash the accouchement at one time, are aswell bound accepting in acceptance about the world. With this method, parents basin their talents calm and use their ability for teaching baby groups of accouchement at a time.

This is aswell ideal for socialization and accretion a child's accommodation to apprentice as they are aswell apparent to altered cultures, ideas, and thoughts. Other options for home ancestry your accouchement cover tutoring, accommodating in awning schools, which cover ambit acquirements programs, cyber schools, allotment school, and absolute abstraction programs.

Thinking of Homeschooling Your Children?

If you are one of the abounding families who acquisition yourselves, for one acumen or addition not at all blessed with the accepted apprenticeship arrangement on offer, again you may already be because homeschooling your children.

Some families adjudge aboriginal in their children's lives that this is the administration they will go if their accouchement ability academy age. While added families will cull their accouchement out of academy to home brainwash instead.

There are abounding websites out there to acquaint you all about the positives of homeschooling for accouchement - and accept me, there are affluence of positives. But as a parent, you charge to accede this advantage actual anxiously if you too are to adore the positives. Here are a few things you may charge to anticipate of.

1. Your accouchement will be about you 24/7 - yes, I apperceive it sounds accessible but you should absolutely accept this. Especially if you tend to be rather adequate to watch the little darlings amble off aback to academy afterwards academy holidays!

2. If you accept been a 'stay at home' ancestor you will be acclimated to lots of 'me' time - this will charge to be adapted already the accouchement are at home.

3. Obviously, if you accomplish this choice, one (if not both) ancestor will charge to yield albatross for educating the children. This may beggarly a accident of assets and a big acclimation by all ancestors associates to the change in superior of life.

4. Anticipate about boundless abrasion and breach on your home! If accouchement are home all the time, things tend to abrasion out or get torn quicker than they would with them at academy 5 canicule a week. Also, there is the abeyant for account bills to be added too.

5. If you are abode proud, you may charge to re-think the accomplished idea! Abode plan becomes beneath of a antecedence if assignment affairs charge to be able etc.

These are just a few things to accede afore chief to homeschool your children. And if this lot hasn't put you off again go for it! The rewards are absolute and the time you accept to be with your accouchement and adore them, is priceless.

Ancient Roman Wall Painting

The visual arts in ancient Rome included a long history of wall painting and much of what we know about it comes from the excavated ruins of Pompeii and the smaller nearby town Herculaneum.  Roman painting in general did not survive however the eruption of Mount Vesuvius near Naples in 79 AD buried the towns in volcanic ash, which served to preserve these works of art.

Rather than having windows, Roman homes were built around a central courtyard, therefore wall painting was both decorative and served the purpose of visually expanding the interiors.  They were expensive to commission and primarily found in the homes of the wealthy.

 
 

Dionysiac Frieze,Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, Second Style, 60-50 BC

While there was quite a variety in subject matter, Roman wall painting is generally broken down into four main types.Eve D’Ambra in her book Roman Art describes each of the types as follows*:

-The First Style, also known as the Masonry Style, represented walls dressed with faux paneling of marble and other stones (200-80 BC).

-The Second Style opened up the wall with architectural vistas (80-20 BC).

-The Third emphasized the decorative architectural frameworks and created the illusion of pictures hanging on the wall (20 BC-40 AD).

-The Fourth incorporated many elements of the Third Style (40-79 AD) to represent textile patterns of wall hangings or views of vaguely defined architectural forms that seem to hang in space, together with mythological panels and floating figures.

In this blog post we will look at some examples of each of these styles.

Roman Wall Painting- First Style (200-80 BC)

Herculaneum: First Style, painted wall decoration, 2nd Century BC

The above is a classic example of First Style wall painting with large rectangular areas painted to look like colored marble or stone.  In these there was no further decoration or narrative and as said above this was also referred to as the Masonry Style.  This style dominated Roman wall painting for over a century before it was replaced by the entirely different Second Style.


Roman Wall Painting- Second Style (80-20 BC)

Below right

Cubiculum from the Villa of Fannius Synistor

Boscoreale, Second Style, 40-50 BC

Above left:

Walled Garden, House of Livia at Prima Porta,

Palatine Hill, Rome, Second Style, late 1st century BC

This style began around 80 BC and here we start to see a trompe l'oeil affect.  Wall paintings are now being used to "create" windows with imaginary views into towns and gardens, or to create columns and other architectural elements. 

Let's look at our two examples above, the one on the left was from the House of the Empress Livia, wife of the Emperor Augustus.  Shown is one section of a wall, this effect continued throughout the room, thus the wall painting is used to give the illusion of an open space.  The other example, found at the Villa of Boscoreale near Pompeii, creates a cityscape outside of an imaginary window.  

Both versions use the entire wall space and include painted marble "columns" to enhance the visual effect that these are real spaces.

A completely different type of Second Style wall painting can be found in the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii, so named for its interesting painting of individuals performing an unknown series of rituals in the triclinium (formal dining room).

Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii. Dionysiac Frieze, north wall, left side: 

Draped Woman, Woman and nude Boy, Girl with an offering plate, 

and Figures around a table, Second Style, 60-50 BC

The meaning behind the paintings in this Villa have intrigued historians since they were excavated in the late 18th century.  Above is one section of the rituals, but the scene wraps entirely around the room and the life size figures are set against a vivid red background in an illusion of another interior space.  It is thought that the figures here are performing rituals associated into the initiation into the cult of the god Dionysus (Bacchus).  This type of figurative frieze was not as common as the typical Second Style wall painting had full size invented architectural elements.

Roman Wall Painting- Third Style (20 BC-40 AD)

Boscotrecase: Villa of Agrippa Postumus: Room 16: north wall 

Third Style, 11-7 BC

The Third Style of Roman wall painting was more comparable to modern day wallpaper, having a decorative effect.  It can also be seen as a type of painting gallery, alluding to the owner's taste in the arts such as in the above example found in Boscotrecase (also outside of Pompeii).  Though actual framed paintings from the ancient world have not survived they have been written about and it is assumed wealthy patrons had them in their homes.  In our example below, from the Villa of Marcus Lucretius a rather detailed landscape is shown.

Triclinium of the Villa of Marcus Lucretius,Third Style, Pompeii

This was a popular version of the Third Style, using some of these small framed "paintings" and placing them in regular intervals against a wall painted in a solid color, or in large areas of solid color with created architectural elements such as columns or cornices.

Roman Wall Painting- Fourth Style (40-79 AD)

The Fourth Style combines elements of the Second and Third Styles and expands upon both.

Pompeii: House of the Vettii: wall painting, Red occus early Fourth Style: 

det.: Apollo victorious over Python, 62-68 AD

As D'Ambra wrote, the Fourth Style "represents textile patterns of wall hangings or views of vaguely defined architectural forms that seem to hang in space, together with mythological panels and floating figures."*

Here we see a very wide variety in styles and designs, there are painted windows, columns and cornices of the Second Style, used in combination with the decorative elements and "painted pictures" of the Third.

Domus Aurea: Room of the Landscapes
Domus Aurea (Golden House of Nero), Rome, Fourth Style, 64-69 AD

As so many of these wall paintings were found in the Bay of Naples area due to their preservation in volcanic ash, the four styles of Roman wall painting end at 79 AD with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

For more information on this topic visit this link from the Met:

Metropolitan Museum of Art Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History Thematic essay

*D’Ambra, Eve. Roman Art. (New York: Cambridge University Press,1998) p. 140.

How Can Trance Beats Help To Shape Music?

Even in the most solo of efforts, music is always a collaborative effort. The musician takes his personal collective influences and transforms these into sound, or music. Trance music, specifically was introduced as a genre of music in Frankfurt, Germany in 1993 and is primarily computer generated, although it is often manipulated by human beings. Trance is very popular in the "club scene" because much of the trance beats are designed to be very upbeat and motivating. When played in clubs, the preference is often to play the music on vinyl which gives the DJ the opportunity to manipulate the songs through bending and scratching the record and offering variance to the sound.

The "instrument" used in trance is the computer, which gives the music a very modern feel. Vocals may or may not be present, but when they are, it's usually a female voice with an operatic or ethereal quality that simply vocalizes rather than sings. However, ironically, it shares a lot in common with classical music, particularly the characteristic of repeating variations of short musical phrases throughout a piece. Most trance music, however, is much faster than typical classical music keeping a beat near 150 beats per minute. Many listeners are both captivated and uplifted by trance music.

While many people love trance music and love it on its own, it's not something everyone likes to listen to by itself. However, there are elements of trance beats that occur often within other kinds of music. One only has to listen to a few minutes of trance music to recognize that very similar beats have become the backdrop to many different pop and dance tracks as well as on film scores and music for television shows. Musicians and producers know the positive energy trance music brings to many people, and how it gives them an opportunity to feel and experience the music. Many musicians really embrace incorporating elements of trance sounds into their own.

Human beings have always had a fascination with music and their own ability to play and participate in music. Today, most of the music we listen to is played from digital files, and as a treat we may go to a club, a concert, or try playing an instrument ourselves. But of course, not everyone is musically gifted. With trance music, or other genres of music that features a trance beat there is an emphasis on making the listener a participant in the music, even if they have little talent.

Music and instruments are made from whatever we have available around us, and the things that are important to our lives. Our ears pique when we hear a cello in a rock band, or an electric guitar appearing in an orchestra. We crave "one-off" sounds that let us know music is still marching forward. With technology being such a driving force today, there is little doubt that elements of trance music will continue to infuse music of all genres for years to come.

The Other Sistine Chapel Frescoes

Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Ceiling frescoes are among the most famous paintings in the world.  However the entire Sistine Chapel is covered in fresco paintings, the walls were painted nearly thirty years earlier by some of the most famous artists of the late 15th century.  

Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the frescoes for the walls in 1481 and asked that the Chapel be completed within a year (named the "Sistine" Chapel in his honor).  He chose to hire several successful fresco painters from Tuscany and Umbria.  The Florentines included: Domenico Ghirlandaio, Sandro Botticelli and Cosimo Rosselli (assisted by Piero di Cosimo).  From Perugia came Pietro Perugino (who was assisted by Pinturicchio) and Luca Signorelli who worked in both regions.

 The Calling of the Apostles Peter and Matthew, Domenico Ghirlandaio,

Sistine Chapel, 1481-82

The Calling of the Apostles moves away from the stylization of his Last Supper and towards the later style he would become known for.  Look at the two halves of the painting, the figures on the right side are painted in a rather stylized way, mostly in profile while the figures in the center and on the left side are more naturalistic.  This fresco is filled with details and uses atmospheric perspective so that the objects in the background are painted in blues and grays.  The painting is also rich in color, no expense was spared in the use of pigments.

Christ Handing the Keys to St. Peter, Pietro Perugino (with Pinturicchio)
Sistine Chapel, 1481-82

Pietro Perugino was a key figure in the Italian Renaissance and a painter who emphasized beauty and harmony in his work.  Pinturicchio was his student and his assistant and worked closely with him.  The style of Pinturicchio (and also of the early Raphael) was very similar to their master Perugino who brought a new sense of gracefulness to the High Renaissance.  Here he shows Christ handing the keys of the church to St. Peter, which was an appropriate theme for the chapel attached to St. Peter's Basilica.

This is both a very famous work of art and also was a very influential work of art for later painters.  Unlike some other paintings and frescoes done at this time which were in private villas or small chapels, St. Peter's and the Sistine Chapel received thousands of visitors from all over Europe and beyond.  Perugino's graceful handling of human figures, use of one-point perspective and inclusion of harmonious 15th century Italianate architecture within a Biblical story would influence a wide variety of future artists.

Temptation of Christ, Sandro Botticelli
Sistine Chapel, 1481-82 

The Pope requested ten frescoes from the Old Testament (painted on the south wall) and New Testament (painted on the north wall) as well as many papal portraits near the clerestory windows.  Botticelli painted three of the large frescoes and around seven portraits.  Some of the frescoes on the altar wall were removed in the early 1530's to make way for Michelangelo's famous Last Judgement fresco which now covers the entire wall.

 

The Testament and Death of Moses, Luca Signorelli
Sistine Chapel, 1481-82

Luca Signorelli is perhaps most famous for his fresco of the Antichrist in the Cathedral of Orvieto, but that wasn't painted until 1499.  This is a much earlier work from this artist who was active in Tuscany, Umbria and Rome.  This fresco uses continuous narrative to show several scenes from the life of Moses including: Moses teaching the law to the Israelites, being shown the Promised Land from Mount Nebo and the descent of Moses from the mountain.

This was not the first time that several of these painters had met each other, both Ghirlandaio and Perugino were students in the workshop of Florentine Andrea Verrocchio along with Leonardo da Vinci.  Ghirlandaio as mentioned earlier would go on to train Michelangelo and Perugio would become the teacher of Raphael.  Botticelli may also have studied with Verrocchio (both painters studied under Fra Fillipo Lippi).  These artists would collaborate with one another in the future as well: Perugino, Ghirlandaio and Botticelli all worked on another fresco cycle together in a villa of Lorenzo di Medici in the mid-1480's.

The Italian "High Renaissance" is often said to have lasted from 1480-1520 and certainly these frescoes were painted in a style that had an enormous influence.  I have often thought that this interesting fresco cycle truly marked the start of the Italian High Renaissance.