TERM 1:

• Psalm 103 (104), Verses 1-20- “Psalm of Creation" [Vespers]

  • [Optional Picture Book] Celebrate the Earth: Psalm 104 (Papademetriou) 

• 7 Days of Creation (simple list, memory song)

TERM 2:

• Psalm 103 (104), Verses 21-35- “Psalm of Creation" [Vespers]

  • [Optional Picture Book] Celebrate the Earth: Psalm 104 (Papademetriou) 

• Ten Commandments

TERM 3:

• Psalm 148 “Praise the Lord from the Heavens” (14 verses) [Communion Hymn & Matins]

  • [Optional] The Praises: Psalm 148 : A Psalm of David (Chocheli) *Term 3 recitation

• Books of the Old Testament

GROUP 1 Options (~K-3rd):

[C1 G1 Enrichment Menu Recitation Pages]

• St. Ephrem the Syrian (306-373)* 

• St. Romanos the Melodist (480-550)

• Oxford Book of Children's Verse, Medieval (Opie)

GROUP 2 Options (~4-12th):

• St. Gregory of Nazianzus (329-390)*

• St. Joseph the Hymnographer (816-886)

• Jacopo da Lentini (~1200-1260)

• Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

• Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)

• Julian of Norwich (1342-1420)

GROUP 3 Options (~10-12th):

• St. Gregory of Narek (~950-1003)

• St. Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022)

• Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)

TERM 1:

• Much Ado About Nothing (Group 1 only) [Wks 1-5]

• King Lear  [Group 1: Wks 6-11; Groups 2-3: Wks 1-11]

TERM 2:

• As You Like It  [Group 1: Wks 15-20; Groups 2-3: Wks 12-20]

TERM 3:

• Othello  (Group 1 only) [Wks 21-25]

• All's Well That Ends Well  (Group 1 only) [Wks 26-30]

• Richard III (Groups 2-3 only) [Wks 21-30]

TERM 1:

• Psalm 50 (51), Verses 1-10- “Have Mercy on me, O God” 

• The Twelve Disciples

• The Lord's Prayer

TERM 2:

• Psalm 50 (51), Verses 11-20- “Have Mercy on me, O God”

• The Beatitudes

TERM 3:

• Psalm 92 (93) “The Lord is King, He is robed in majesty" (7 verses) 

• Books of the New Testament (version 1, version 2)

GROUP 1 Options (~K-3rd):

• Oxford Book of Children's Verse, Sixteenth & Seventeenth Century (Opie)

• Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1596)

• William Blake (1757-1827) Songs of Innocence (The Tyger)

GROUP 2 Options (~4-12th):

• George Herbert (1593-1633)

• Anne Bradstreet (1619-1672)

• Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)

• Robert Burns (1759-1796)

• William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 

GROUP 3 Options (~10-12th):

• John Donne (1572-1631) (“Batter my heart," "Death be not Proud"))

• John Milton (1608-1674)

• Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834) (“Kubla Khan")

TERM 1:

• Taming of the Shrew (Group 1 only) [Wks 1-5]

• Macbeth  [Group 1: Wks 6-11; Groups 2-3: Wks 1-11] (Tomorrow, and tomorrow)

TERM 2:

• A Midsummer Night's Dream  [Group 1: Wks 15-20; Groups 2-3: Wks 12-20]

TERM 3:

• Cymbeline  (Group 1 only) [Wks 21-25]

• The Two Gentlemen of Verona  (Group 1 only) [Wks 26-30]

• Henry IV, Part 1 (Groups 2-3 only) [Wks 21-30]

TERM 1:

• Psalm 102 (103), Verses 1-10- “Bless the Lord, O my Soul" 

• Twelve Great Feasts

TERM 2:

• Psalm 102 (103), Verses 11-20- “Bless the Lord, O my Soul" 

• Christ is Risen (in multiple languages)

TERM 3:

• Psalm 142 (143) “O Lord, hear my prayer" (12 verses)

  • AND/OR Psalm 22 (23) “The Lord is my shepherd" (6 verses)

• x

GROUP 1 Options (~K-3rd):

• Christina Rossetti (1830-1894): Sing-Song 

• Eugene Field (1850-1895): Lullaby-Land: Songs from Childhood

• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894): A Child's Garden of Verses 

GROUP 2 Options (~4-12th):

• Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

• John Keats (1795-1821)

• Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

• Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) (A Psalm of Life, The Village Blacksmith)

• John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

• Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) 

GROUP 3 Options (~10-12th):

• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

• Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) (God's Grandeur)

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

• Robert Browning (1812-1889)

• Walt Whitman (1819–1892) (O Captain, my Captain)

TERM 1:

• The Tempest (Group 1 only) [Wks 1-5]

• Romeo & Juliet [Group 1: Wks 6-11; Groups 2-3: Wks 1-11]

TERM 2:

• The Merchant of Venice [Group 1: Wks 15-20; Groups 2-3: Wks 12-20] (“The quality of mercy is not strained..."

TERM 3:

• Timon of Athens (Group 1 only) [Wks 21-25]

• The Comedy of Errors (Group 1 only) [Wks 26-30]

• Henry V (Groups 2-3 only) [Wks 21-30] (St. Crispin's Day)

TERM 1:

• Psalm 145 (146) “Praise the Lord, O my Soul” (10 verses)

• x

TERM 2:

• Psalm 1 “Blessed is the man" (6 verses) 

• The Creed 

TERM 3:

• Psalm 69 (70) “O God, be attentive unto helping me" (7 verses)

• Jesus Prayer in multiple languages

GROUP 1 Options (~K-3rd):

• Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

•  A.A. Milne (1882-1956): Now We Are Six 

• A.A. Milne (1882-1956): When We Were Young 

• Walter de LaMare (1873-1956)

GROUP 2 Options (~4-12th):

• Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

• G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

• William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

• Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) 

• St. Nikolai Velimirovich (1880-1956)

• Robert Frost (1874-1963)

• Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

• Scott Cairns (1954-Present)

GROUP 3 Options (~10-12th):

• T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

• W.H. Auden (1907-1973)

• Giorgos Themelis (1900-1976)

TERM 1:

• Measure for Measure (Group 1 only) [Wks 1-5]

• Hamlet [Group 1: Wks 6-11; Groups 2-3: Wks 1-11]

TERM 2:

• Twelfth Night [Group 1: Wks 15-20; Groups 2-3: Wks 12-20]

TERM 3:

• Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Group 1 only) [Wks 21-25]

• The Winter's Tale (Group 1 only) [Wks 26-30]

• Julius Caesar (Groups 2-3 only) [Wks 21-30]