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How Do You Memorize?

How Do You Memorize?

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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 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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How Do You Memorize?

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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)

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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).

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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

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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)

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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)

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Try it out!

Joe got his gun and chased his crazy mule.

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The Six Pillars of the Character Education

• Trustworthiness• Respect• Responsibilities• Fairness• Caring• Citizenship