Announcements and Reminders:
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Targets for Today:
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Today’s Agenda:
1. Individual Reading Time and Fill Out your Reading Log. 2. Partner Fluency Practice and fill out your Fluency Graph. 3. More on Remembering/Retaining Information Using the LOCI method. 
How to Improve Your Memory
https://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/nervous-system/how-to-improve-your-memory7.htm
This method works especially well if you're good at visualizing. Here's how it works:
Think of a place you know well, such as your own house.
Visualize a series of locations in the place in logical order.
For example, picture the path you normally take in your house to get from the front door to the back door.
Begin at the front door,
go through the hall,
turn into the living room,
proceed through the dining room
and into the kitchen, and so on.
As you enter each location, move logically and consistently in the same direction, from one side of the room to the other. Each piece of furniture could serve as an additional location.
Place each item that you want to remember at one of the locations.
When you want to remember the items, simply visualize your house and go through it room by room in your mind. Each item that you associated with a specific location in your house should spring to mind as you mentally make your way through your home.
Here's how it would work if you wanted to remember the following shopping list:
shaving cream
peaches
hot dogs
ketchup
ice cream
As you visualize your house, imagine spraying shaving cream all over the front door. Don't just imagine the word "shaving cream." Really see it as you depress the nozzle and spray the foam all over the front door. Try to imagine the smell of the shaving cream, as well.
Now open the door, enter the hall, and imagine a giant peach rolling down the steps in the front hall and heading right for you. Now walk into the living room, and visualize a six-foot-tall hot dog in a bun wearing a cowboy hat and lounging by the fireplace. Enter the dining room and picture a bottle of ketchup, dressed in an old-fashioned maid's uniform, setting the table. Finally, go to the kitchen and picture a gallon of ice cream, melting as it slaves over a hot stove.
After you've visually placed all your list items around the house, when you try to remember your shopping list, all you have to do is visualize your front door.
You will instantly see the shaving cream;
as you enter the hall, the peach will pop into your mind; and so on.
The more outrageous and unusual you make your mental images, the easier you'll find it is to remember them.
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You can use this method to remember lists of items, important points in a speech, names of people at an event or meeting, things you need to do, even a thought you want to keep in mind. This method works well because it changes the way you remember, so that you use familiar locations to cue yourself about things. Because the locations are organized in an order that you know well, one memory flows into the next very easily.
4. If extra time, practice your First Ten Amendments with a partner.
An article about remembering: https://elemental.medium.com/the-art-and-science-of-remembering-df393a17685b
If You Were Absent:
See above. Complete the make-up reading assignment. |
Vocabulary:
The method of loci is also known as the memory journey, memory palace, or mind palace technique. Loci is the plural of locus, a latin term meaning location. |
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