Recitation & Memory Work
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Cycle 1: Recitation & Memory Work
C1 SCRIPTURE & CATECHESIS MEMORY WORK:
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)
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
C1 POETRY RECITATION:
GROUP 1 Options (~K-3rd):
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 the Theologian (329-390)*
St. Joseph the Hymnographer (816-886)
St. Cassiani (Kassia the nun) (810-865)
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)
C1 SHAKESPEARE RECITATION:
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]
Additional Cycle 1 Recitation Ideas:
Alfred Lord Tennyson's Morte d'Arthur: “And slowly answer’d Arthur from the barge..."
John Keats's La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
Edgar Allen Poe's Eldorado
Cycle 2: Recitation & Memory Work
C2 POETRY RECITATION:
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
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")
John Milton (1608-1674)
Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834) (“Kubla Khan")
C2 SHAKESPEARE RECITATION:
TERM 1:
Taming of the Shrew (Group 1 only) [Wks 1-5]
Macbeth [Group 1: Wks 6-11; Groups 2-3: Wks 1-11]
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]
Additional Cycle 2 Recitation Ideas:
Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus: “Ah, Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live..."
Pericles’ Funeral Oration, from Thucydides: “Fix your eyes on the greatness of Athens..."
Cycle 3: Recitation & Memory Work
C3 SCRIPTURE & CATECHESIS MEMORY WORK:
TERM 1:
Psalm 102 (103), Verses 1-10- “Bless the Lord, O my Soul"
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)
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C3 POETRY RECITATION:
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)
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)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
C3 SHAKESPEARE RECITATION:
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]
Additional Cycle 3 Recitation Ideas:
Matthew Arnold's “Dover Beach"
Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam A. H. H.: “Strong Son of God, immortal Love..."
Cycle 4: Recitation & Memory Work
C4 SCRIPTURE & CATECHESIS MEMORY WORK:
TERM 1:
Psalm 145 (146) “Praise the Lord, O my Soul” (10 verses)
x
TERM 2:
TERM 3:
Psalm 69 (70) “O God, be attentive unto helping me" (7 verses)
Jesus Prayer in multiple languages
C4 POETRY RECITATION:
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)
C4 SHAKESPEARE RECITATION:
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]
Additional Cycle 4 Recitation Ideas:
Thomas Hardy's In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’
William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming"
Stephen Spender's “The Truly Great": “I think continually of those who were truly great..."
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