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How Do You Memorize?. Memory. Storage and retrieval system/ re-creation Short-term memory and long-term memory Using strategies to memorize things (for short-term) – rote learning, singing, sorting, association, mnemonics
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Memory • Storage and retrieval system/ re-creation • Short-term memory and long-term memory • Using strategies to memorize things (for short-term) – rote learning, singing, sorting, association, mnemonics • Building meaning and significance (for long term) – discussing, note-taking, debating, teaching, applying, creating
The Loci Method • The Method of loci (plural of Latin locus for place or location), also called the memory palace, is a mnemonic device introduced in ancient Roman and Greek rhetorical treatises. • The method of loci: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2zUIw1ESbE
Five Great Lakes • Find them on a map • Become familiar with the names and locations • Reinforce your knowledge. Test yourself by looking at an unlabeled map.
Five Great Lakes- mnemonic • Use the acronym 'HOMES.' Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior. • The mnemonic 'Super Man Helps Every One' lists the lakes geographically from West to East.
What months have 30 days? • There's a poem we had to learn in school: 30 days have september, april, june and november,all the rest have 31, except for february which has 28(Not a poem exactly, but a little ditty to help remember this info)
What months have 30 days? • Use your knuckles to remember each month's days • Count the months on your knuckles and the grooves between your knuckles. Leave out your thumb knuckle. Every month that lands on a knuckle is 31 days, every month that lands on a groove between knuckles is 30 days (or 28 for February).
Remember Music Key Signatures For the order of sharps and flats, respectively: • GDAEBFC (sharps): Good dogs always eat biscuits for Christmas • FBEADGC (flats): Fay Bought Eggs And Dan Got Candy
Memorize presidents from Abe Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt • Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865) • Andrew Johnson (1865-1869) • Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877) • Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881) • James A. Garfield (1881) • Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885) • Grover Cleveland (1885-1889) • Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) • Grover Cleveland (1893-1897) • William McKinley (1897-1901) • Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
Joe got his gun and chased his crazy mule. • Andrew Johnson (1865-1869) • Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877) • Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881) • James A. Garfield (1881) • Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885) • Grover Cleveland (1885-1889) • Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) • Grover Cleveland (1893-1897) • William McKinley (1897-1901)
Try it out! Joe got his gun and chased his crazy mule.
The Six Pillars of the Character Education • Trustworthiness • Respect • Responsibilities • Fairness • Caring • Citizenship