Information to Memorize

 -- Your study materials are also available on Canvas. 

C = Currency -- 

How up-to-date is it?     

R = Relevance --

Is it what I need or want?  Does it help me?
A = Authority --
   Who wrote or published this?
   What makes them an expert?

A = Accuracy -- 

Is the information correct?
Can you verify it in more than one place?

P = Purpose --  

Why did they create this?  

• to inform or teach?  
• to persuade?  
• to sell?  
• to entertain? 

        and How biased is it?   

If you're dying to watch the music video we watched in the media center, here is the link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ8ajc5FrT8

Peg System:

1. Bun – Picture a bun wrapping about the first amendment:

 "Speakin' of freedoms, oh what could they be

Freedom of Religion and Assembly,

Freedom of Petition and Freedom of Press,

Freedom of Speech, now don't distress."

2. Shoe – Picture a Bear wearing shoes – The right to bear arms.

3. Tree – It’s a quarter tree – You don’t have to quarter soldiers.

4. Door – You don’t have to let them in unless they have a valid search warrant. Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.

5. Hive --  Bees are buzzing in your ears saying, “Tell us what you did!  Admit you’re guilty!”

Freedom from self-incrimination (due process of law)

6.  Sticks – Chasing the judge with sticks demanding the right to a speedy trial.

7. Heaven – Picture a jury box full of jurors on a cloud (in heaven).  This is the right to a trial by jury.

8. Gate – It would be cruel and unusual for someone to slam a person’s hand in a gate.

This amendment protects us from cruel and unusual punishment.

9. Line – Stand in the RIGHT line to get your Individual RIGHTS. Many individuals would be standing there.

10.  Hen – Picture the Governor standing on the Capitol steps holding a hen, demanding STATES RIGHTS.

Student Example

Here is some more information if you would like to look at it on your own:  

Loci System: Select a place you know well   

http://remembereverything.org/memory-palace-the-method-of-loci/

Try using the Loci system to memorize the first ten Presidents of the United States.

President	Party	Term as President	Vice-President
1. George Washington (1732-1799)	None, Federalist	1789-1797	John Adams
2. John Adams (1735-1826)	Federalist	1797-1801	Thomas Jefferson
3. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)	Democratic-Republican	1801-1809	Aaron Burr, George Clinton
4. James Madison (1751-1836)	Democratic-Republican	1809-1817	George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry
5. James Monroe (1758-1831)	Democratic-Republican	1817-1825	Daniel Tompkins
6. John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)	Democratic-Republican	1825-1829	John Calhoun
7. Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)	Democrat	1829-1837	John Calhoun, Martin van Buren
8. Martin van Buren (1782-1862)	Democrat	1837-1841	Richard Johnson
9. William H. Harrison (1773-1841)	Whig	1841	John Tyler
10. John Tyler (1790-1862)

Remember your "fieldtrip" to learn the presidents:

1. Washington was on the counseling office window, and you pictured the counselors doing a ton of laundry. 
2. Adams was on the financial office window because Mrs. Cleveland "add'ems" up.  
3. Jefferson was at the attendance office because a man named Jeff was checking his son out of school. 
4. Madison was in the main office because the principal had called him and he was Mad at his Son!
5. Monroe was in the commons and you pictured a "mon/man"  "row"ing a boat across the commons.
6. You headed out to the math wing and pictured your math teacher who also "Add 'ems" up numbers.  John Quincy Adams is the son of John Adams. 
7. You looked out the door and saw Jack's son playing jacks for Jackson. 
8. You walked around to the front of the school where you looked toward the parking lot and imagined seeing a van for VanBuren.  
9. Back in the commons you looked up and saw a huge hairy caveman.  His son will also be a hairy son for Harrison. 
10. Back upstairs by some science rooms you saw Tyler because Mr. Houle and Mr. Moon sometimes wear ties.