<p>sum, es, est; sumus, estis, sunt
eram, eras, erat; eramus, eratis, erant;
ero, eris, erit; erimus, eritis, erunt…am I even close?</p>
<p>Lots of poetry (I had some old teachers back in the 60s in elementary school) - Longfellow, Whittier, Frost, etc. and I just remember a few lines. Put them altogether, though, and you’ve got something, just not sure what it is you’ve got.</p>
<p>By the (c)rude bridge that arched the flood
their flag to April’s breeze unfurled
here once the embattled farmer stood
and fired the shot heard round the world</p>
<p>Who touches a hair of yon old head
dies like a dog,
March on! he said</p>
<p>In flanders field the poppies lay</p>
<p>A host of golden daffodils</p>
<p>rose cheerless over hills of gray
but I chose the road less travelled,
then quietly moves on</p>
<p>THe same thing happened with French dialogues (“ALM French, Level One, text copyright 1969 by Harcourt Brace and World Incorporated”) </p>
<p>Dis donc, ou la bibliotecque?</p>
<p>Oui, je m’appelle Jean.</p>
<p>C’est tout droit, tu y vas toute suite?</p>
<p>Donnez-mois du pain and du buerre, s’il vous plait.</p>
<p>Il faut que j’aille cherchez un livre.</p>
<p>When I was a freshman in H.S., I had to memorize and recite part of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar:</p>
<p>Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears, I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones.
So let it be with Casar.
The noble Brutus hath told you that Caesar was ambitious.
If it were so, it was a grievous fault, and grievously hath Caesar answered it…</p>
<p>Also, in middle school, we memorized a non-sensical ditty to remember all the U.S. presidents in order. It goes (something) like this:
In Washington, Adams was jeopardized by a Mad Monster.
Adams and Jackson ran to the Bureau, but in their Hurry, they tripped a Tile or Poked a Taylor.
They Filled More buildings Pierced By A Cannon, which were Linked by John to a Grant tree…</p>
<p>From reading to my kids (whom I also call by the wrong names or the dogs’ names), I also rememebr quite a bit of Jamberry and a lot of Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown:
In the great green room, there was a telephone. And a red balloon. And a picture of…A cow jumping over the moon. And there were three little bears, sitting on chairs…</p>
<p>Ah French! said in your best singsong voice:
“J’entres dans la salle de classe. Je regard autour de moi. Je dis bonjour au professeur. Je prends ma place.”</p>
<p>I’m always surprised the things my kids haven’t learned. Noone has ever told them i before e except after c. My ninth grader the other day asked me if June had fewer days than July. Well duh! “30 days hath September, April, JUNE and November”.</p>
<p>Roy. G. Biv for the colors of the rainbow. And one for the planets I never successfully memorized.</p>
<p>Lefthandofdog,
“French, Level One, Reel 3, Under Applicable Federal Law, this tape may only be reproduced with the advance written permission of the publisher. Ecoute et repete.” “La neige est belle aujourd’hui! Si on aller faire du ski?” :D</p>
<p>“With an I and a WE and a HE SHE THEY.” – This was a cheer that the 8th grade English teacher taught us. </p>
<p>“Eight times eight fell on the floor. I picked it up and it was Sixty Four.” – from my grandmother, a fourth grade teacher.</p>
<p>Mstee, was that for pronouns?</p>
<p>We used I-You-He-She-It-We-You-They, said in a really dramatic fashion in 7th grade to the same effect.</p>
<p>Here are some I know of:</p>
<p>MUSIC:
Treble Clef Line Notes: Empty Garbage Before Dad Flips
Treble Clef Space Notes: Face
Order of Sharps: Five Cows Got Dizzy Above Earth Bob
Order of Flats: Boys Eat Apple Dumplings Girls Cook Fred</p>
<p>MATH:
Order of Operations: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
Multiples of 9: The “Nine Nine Nine” song from Square One
Factoring: FOIL</p>
<p>SOCIAL STUDIES:
State Capitals: The song “Capital” by Rockapella (it leaves out Pierre but it only makes it easier to remember that way)
Countries: The song with Yakko from Animaniacs</p>
<p>SCIENCE:
Sulfuric Acid Formula: Wee Willie was a chemist, Wee Willie is no more, for what he thought was H2O was H2SO4
The Planets: Mary Vists Every Monday and Just Stays Until Noon (Period, although you won’t need that after last year)</p>
<p>EARLY LEARNING STUFF:
Days of the Week: The refrain from Sting’s “Seven Days” seems like it would work well and if I wind up teaching kindergarten or first grade I will likely use it</p>
<p>METHODS OF TEACHING:
The Danielson Model: PC-IP (as in IP address for a PC); note that they stand for Preperation, Classroom Management, Instruction, and Professional Responsibilities (for those not familiar with the Danielson model, which I thought made the most sense of all the education models)</p>
<p>Yes, pronouns, but I don’t remember why . . . </p>
<p>I like the sulfuric acid formula one.</p>
<p>Ah, good stuff here, some of it quite useful! </p>
<p>Our “planets” mnemonic was “My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.”</p>
<p>The States song was “Fifty Nifty United States, from thirteen original colonies.” My daughter can still sing that one.</p>
<p>In HS foreign lang. class we actually had to memorize the dorky little dialogues, which was useful when on a test you couldn’t remember what gender something was. I think memorization is not emphasized enough these days.</p>
<p>Fifty Nifty United States seems to be almost a standard nationwide! Great song, any social studies teacher or music teacher can tell you how much it helps the kids. I’m taking a class in music education now and the teacher said that if there’s one song our kids need to learn in elementary school it’s that one.</p>
<p>cgm, of course, 8675309 was the first thing that popped into my head…
All of the French stuff cracked me up…my husband thought I was losing it and then when I tried to explain he shook his head, apparently he did not take French in high school and did not ask “ou es la bibliotheque?”<br>
I was an English major so, Julius Caesar, the Canterbury Tales, a lot of poetry which I have blissfully forgotten and all kinds of little “sayings” that show my age and make my kids roll their eyes:
A pints a pound the world round.
Patience is a virtue seldom found in men and never found in women (High School chemistry teacher-male, of course).
and so on…
This thread cracked me up… Thanks for the laugh.</p>
<p>In middle school biology we had to memorize the bones starting with occipital all the way down to calcaneus, plus we had to stand on a table and point them all out while naming them. I can still do it after 40+ years, mainly because I used to recite them to myself to help fall asleep when I had insomnia. Sometimes just starting occipital, parietal, frontal, temporal can do the job!</p>
<p>Hmmm, a lot of us had “almost” the same French dialogues:</p>
<p>“Allo, Bernard, veux tu aller en ville?”</p>
<p>“A mi no me gustan las albondigas!” </p>
<p>Did anyone have that one?</p>
<p>Mnemonic for memorizing the 12 cranial nerves:</p>
<p>"On old Olympus’s towering top a fat assed German viewed a hawk.</p>
<p>I scoured my mind, but came up with only one: Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November…etc.
I feel so lame!
Most of my brain space is taken up with bad 70’s and 80’s song lyrics, even the songs that I hated…!</p>
<p>omg, you mentioned French… talk about things I forgot that I remembered!</p>
<p>La cloche sonne
Je me reveille
Je brosse mes dentes</p>
<p>Did I get any of that right?? </p>
<p>If you remember 8675309… do you also remember…</p>
<p>6345789</p>
<p>(that’s my number)</p>
<p>Coureor–Jeopardy, I’m impressed</p>
<p>No one has mentioned Beowolf. That went along with Canterbury Tales.
25 lines of Shakespeare=B, 50 lines=A</p>
<p>S didn’t have as many memorization projects. I do recall John D"s “Death be not proud” poem</p>
<p>Allo, Passy Vingt Deux Quinze?
Oui, Qui est a la pareil? <Ed. note-Please forgive my French spelling.)
Ici Pierre, Bernard est-la?</p>
<p>Zut alors, je me suis casse ma jambe!
(Follows dialogue la neige est belle aujourd’hui)</p>
<p>Add to the lists</p>
<p>There is a dirty and a clean version for the 12 cranial nerves, seeing the above, that’s a third version- one went " On old Olympus towering top a Finn and German viewed some hops" and virgin appeared in the other…</p>
<p>ROYGBIV</p>
<p>I pledge allegiance… Oh, say can you see… grade school patriotic songs, that statue of liberty inscription… Ask not what your country can give you…</p>
<p>I had Sat catechism classes and quit the religion, but I’ll always remember “Who made me? God made me.” the rest of the infamous Baltimore Catechism is mercifully gone from my brain.</p>
<p>All those high school cheers, including, for football- “blood, blood, blood makes the grass grow” and “end, center, tackle, guard, get your man and smear him”- plus all the ones on the approved list.</p>
<p>College songs- Varsity, If you want to be a Badger, and most of On Wisconsin. I would have remembered those no matter where I lived.</p>
<p>The literary lines- Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. No man is an island, entire onto himself. Oh would someone(?) the gift --give us, to see ourselves as others see us (“Bobbie Burns”, to be said with a Scottish accent). Out, out, damned spot (profanity hits HS English class). </p>
<p>All those school trip bus and playground songs/chants- Found a peanut…, 100 bottles of…, Miss Mary Mack…, First comes love…, How much is that doggy in the window…, You are my Sunshine…The other day…bear…, </p>
<p>Un, deux, cat, sank…Je me brosse les dents, etc… </p>
<p>Oops, a lot of these were extracurricular. BTW, no fair-college students, they don’t have to remember things they haven’t had to know for 30 or more years…</p>