Artist, Shakespeare & Composer Rotations

Each year your children should study a new rotation of Shakespeare plays, artists and composers together as a family. Below are the Between the Lines recommendations for a 7 year rotation of Shakespeare plays, Picture Study artists and Musical Appreciation composers. However, you can study these in any order you prefer.

We will publish a new set of Picture Study and Musical Appreciation Lesson Plans each year. You can find them all here. For Shakespeare, we highly recommend the Simply Charlotte Mason Shakespeare in Three Steps guides.

Note: The rotations below are subject to change.

 Rotation

Shakespeare Plays

Picture Study Artists

Musical Appreciation Composers

Rotation 1

Term 1: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Term 2: Julius Caesar
Term 3: The Tempest

 

Term 1: Jean-Francois Millet
Term 2: George Frederic Watts
Term 3: Jan Steen & Gerrit Dou

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Term 1: Haydn
Term 2: Mozart
Term 3: Beethoven

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Rotation 2

Term 1: Twelfth Night
Term 2: Henry V
Term 3: Macbeth

 

Term 1: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Term 2: Albrecht Dürer
Term 3: Raphael

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Term 1: Palestrina
Term 2: Handel
Term 3: Bach

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Rotation 3

Term 1: Much Ado About Nothing
Term 2: Romeo and Juliet
Term 3: Richard III

 

Term 1: Jusepe de Ribera
Term 2: Francisco Goya
Term 3: Vincent van Gogh

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Term 1: Von Weber
Term 2: Schubert
Term 3: Mendelssohn

Rotation 4

 

Term 1: As you like it
Term 2: Hamlet
Term 3: Henry IV Part 1

Term 1: Sanzio
Term 2: Tintoretto
Term 3: Sargent
Term 1: Schumann
Term 2: Wagner
Term 3: Purcell

Rotation 5

 

Term 1: The Merchant of Venice
Term 2: King Lear
Term 3: Henry IV Part 2

Term 1: Monet
Term 2: Seurat
Term 3: Caravaggio
Term 1: Chopin
Term 2: Grieg
Term 3: Elgar

Rotation 6

 

Term 1: The Taming of the Shrew

Term 2: Othello
Term 3: Henry VI Part 1

Term 1: Delacroix
Term 2: Pissarro
Term 3: Fragonard
Term 1: McDowell
Term 2: Field
Term 3: Verdi

Rotation 7

 

Term 1: Measure for Measure

Term 2: Antony and Cleopatra
Term 3: Richard II

Term 1: Bierstadt
Term 2: Renoir
Term 3: Copley

Term 1: Gilbert
and Sullivan
Term 2: Debussy Term 3: Vivaldi