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Post by otto on Feb 1, 2009 22:32:42 GMT -5
well, I need to memorize a poem for school, and i've been sitting here, watching the super bowl, and reading this over and over again, and listening to a professional reader recite it over and over again, and i just can't remember anything.
do you guys have any techniques for memorizing things?
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Post by Cass on Feb 1, 2009 22:34:10 GMT -5
Read it, and sing it like a song.
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Post by The Bagman on Feb 1, 2009 22:35:04 GMT -5
Back in high school when I had to memorize lines from a poem I usually start with the first 2 or 3 lines, and untill I get it I wouldn't move on. Say it like 5-10 times over and over and then have someone test you like a parent or sibling. After you got the first lines memorize continue on to the other lines. Thats the way I usually do it and it works. Also take away things that you know will distract you.... like TV and cell phone.
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Post by Cult Member BriGuy on Feb 1, 2009 22:35:16 GMT -5
turn off the tv. read it outloud, rewrite it. Do a few lines at a time
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Post by slappy on Feb 1, 2009 22:36:46 GMT -5
Post the poem.
Might be easier for us to help that way.
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Post by TotalDivaCustoms on Feb 1, 2009 22:43:56 GMT -5
Back in high school when I had to memorize lines from a poem I usually start with the first 2 or 3 lines, and untill I get it I wouldn't move on. Say it like 5-10 times over and over and then have someone test you like a parent or sibling. After you got the first lines memorize continue on to the other lines. Thats the way I usually do it and it works. Also take away things that you know will distract you.... like TV and cell phone. Yeah what he said. I too had to memorize a poem for school, it was only 14 lines. what I did was, I read the first 4 verses over and over again until I memorize them. then I went on to the next 4 and then I would try and repeat the 8 verses until I knew them by heart.I kept going on until I remember all of it. you can also try to rewrite the poem, That way if you don't remember a verse you can skip it and keep on until you finish and go over it to try and figure out which onces you don't remember. |
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Post by otto on Feb 1, 2009 22:45:35 GMT -5
Post the poem. Might be easier for us to help that way. It's The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5 Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, 10 And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. 15 I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. 20 |
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Post by Deadshot on Feb 1, 2009 22:51:17 GMT -5
What's the point of memorizing a poem?
I never saw the point of memorizing a bunch of words instead of understanding the poem...
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Post by otto on Feb 1, 2009 22:53:38 GMT -5
What's the point of memorizing a poem? I never saw the point of memorizing a bunch of words instead of understanding the poem... Same here. Weird thing is the whole assignment is worth 100 points, reciting the poem is 65 and the paragraphs are 35. |
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Post by biohazard on Feb 1, 2009 22:54:03 GMT -5
Just tell he that Frost sucks and you refuse to memorize anyone other than Bukowski.
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Post by slappy on Feb 1, 2009 23:00:42 GMT -5
Take each 5 lines and just repeat them over and over again. You just have to shut everything else off and just repeat over and over.
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Post by iyfwkidzc on Feb 1, 2009 23:03:07 GMT -5
Like I said on AIM, tell a little sibling or pet to come in your room, and recite the poem to them with a copy. Then, in 15 to 20 minutes, tell them to come back in again, and recite the poem without the copy.
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Post by The Sam Kinnison Corps on Feb 1, 2009 23:05:01 GMT -5
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Post by Jimmy on Feb 1, 2009 23:26:09 GMT -5
songs have helped me learn almost everything I know: We the people In order to form a more perfect union establish justice ensure domestic tranquility provide for the common defense promote the general welfare andddd secure the blessings of our liberties to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of Americaaaaaa!  |
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Post by Mark on Feb 1, 2009 23:49:28 GMT -5
i wonder what actors do
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Post by TeamExtreme718x on Feb 1, 2009 23:50:50 GMT -5
Writing it multiple times would help too..
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Post by angry2k9 on Feb 2, 2009 0:22:18 GMT -5
take it line by line, word for word and just keep moving yourself up the ladder. everytime you forget go back to the beginning and try again.
thats how i did it back in 8th grade when we had to memorize a lengthy passage from something.
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Post by "Living Legend" Duttanized on Feb 2, 2009 0:25:45 GMT -5
Write it down over and over and over. Listen to it while you are writing it down. I suggest headphones because you are able to cancel out the world around you.
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Post by KeBen Owens on Feb 2, 2009 0:36:05 GMT -5
repeat the first verse until you know it, and then add the second verse, and then continue on that way. it hard to remember anything all at once. just keep repeating it. -abcs
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Post by 1992 on Feb 2, 2009 2:06:29 GMT -5
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