Name: Cheryl Hartman
School: Dr. John Hole
Workshop: Centerville. OH
Title of Action Plan: Getting Ready for Claudia and Jamiebs Adventure
Grade 5
Curriculum/Subject: Language Arts/ Library Media
Specific Topic: Michelangelo and the Metropolitan Museum
Summary: This pathfinder is be used prior to reading bFrom the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweilerb by E.L. Konigsburg. It is intended to give the students resources for finding background information on the life and works of the artist Michelangelo. Also included are resources for visiting the Metropolitan Museum.
700bs for Museums and Art
Subject Headings: Michelangelo, Metropolitan Museum, Museums


GET STARTED ON YOUR MUSEUM ADVENTURE BY READING THIS PICTURE BOOK FROM OUR SCHOOL IMC

Wyse, Lois, and Molly Rose Goldman. How to Take Your Grandmother to the Museum. New York: Workman Pub. 1998.

NON-FICTION BOOKS AVAILABLE IN OUR SCHOOL IMC
Raboff, Ernest. Michelangelo Buonarroti. New York: Harper & Row, 1998.

Sateren, Shelley S. Michelangelo. Makato, Minnesota: Bridgestone Books, 2002.

Stanley, Diane. Michelangelo. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.

Tames, Richard. Michelangelo Buonarotti. Chicago: Heinemann, 2001.

Venezia, Mike. Michelangelo. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1991.



BOOKS AVAILABLE FROM OUR LOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARY
Brown, Laurene Krasny and Marc Brown. Visiting the art Museum. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1986.

Richardson, Joy. Inside the Museum: A Children's Guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, 1993.

Richmond, Robin. Introducing Michelangelo. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1991.



FOLLOW THESE WEB LINKS TO MAGAZINE ARTICLES.
Artists, Photographers, and Sculptors of the Past. World Almanac & Book of Facts, 2004, p207, 4p; Reading Level (Lexile): 450; (AN 12117589)
Michelangelo Buonarroti. People of the Renaissance, 2002, p13, 2p; Reading Level (Lexile): 1110; (AN 6938782)
Michelangelo. Monkeyshines on Art & Great Artists, 2001, p28, 3p, 11bw; Reading Level (Lexile): 810; (AN 6403998)

WEB SITES
This web site gives biographical information as well as information about some of Michelangelo's famous work.
This web site gives detailed biographical information of Michelangelo, one of the greatest and well-known artists in history.


This web site offers biographical information excerpted from a book on Michelangelo. It also contains a timeline of events pertinent to his life.

You can learn more about this influential master and see examples of his work on this WebMuseum Paris page.
This site offers a comprehensive look at the master artist's life and discusses the influence that both the church and the Medici family had on his work.
Official site of the Metropolitan Museum.

VISIT "THE VIRTUAL IMC" FOR REFERENCE TOOLS AND DATABASES