Level: Form II (4th–6th grades), Form III (7th–9th grades), Form IV (10th–12th grades)
Subject(s): Art/Art Appreciation, Citizenship, English, History, Literature, Music/Music Appreciation, Panorama
Description:
In the Artist & Composer Study portion of this class, students encounter works by master artists and composers in this multi-sensory class. Over the course of the year, students learn about the lives of 4 artists and 4 composers and study multiple works from each. Students gain a listening repertoire of over a dozen classical scores and receive over a dozen full-color art prints, which they study in class through group discussion, written narration, and notebook drawings.
In the Plutarch & Shakespeare portion of this class, the class will read, narrate, and discuss passages from Plutarch’s Lives and Shakespeare’s plays. Over the year, students will read two of Shakespeare plays and two of Plutarch’s lives, studying one of each per semester. Students will have the opportunity to dramatically read selected passages, to reenact key scenes, and to prepare and recite optional memory work.
Materials:
Required (all Forms):
- Dual Notebook with blank and lined paper
- Three-ring binder with lined paper, pencils, colored pencils, and erasers in a pencil pouch.
Form 2 Required Resources:
- Twelfth Night, Folger Shakespeare Library
- Julius Caesar, Folger Shakespeare Library
- Our Young Folk’s Plutarch (used multiple years)
Forms 3 & 4 Required Resources:
- The Winter’s Tale, Folger Shakespeare Library
- King John, Folger Shakespeare Library
- Plutarch’s Lives, Volume II, Modern Library Classics Dryden translation (used multiple years)
- Composition notebook
