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Memo,rization
Students become dismayed, but
work helps to preserve great
memory
pieces of
litertature
"If you are alone for an
extended period of time and
especially if you are under
stress, memorized passages
are comforting, for example, if
you were a POW or had a
lengthly illness that required
you to spend a great deal of
time alone. Another reason is
to preserve great pieces of
literature, enjoyed and
recognized by great educated
people," commented Mrs. Sue
Williams.
From "Friend, Romans, and
Countrymen, lend me your
ears ...," "But for my part,
it's Greek to me ...," to
"Fair ,is foul , and foul' is fair,"
Double, double, toil and
trouble.'' Shakespeare's
writings, especially those of
"Julius Ceasar" and
" Macbeth," were primary
sources in English II and IV.
English Ill teachers prepared
passages from famous literary
works by Thomas Jefferson,
William Cullen Bryant, and
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Robert Frost.
" Some say flatly that they
cannot, never have, never will,
while others love it,'· noted
Mrs. Williams about students
reaction to assigned memory
assignments.
Making word associations,
drawing pictures, reciting again
and again, and making up
songs assited some students
as they memorized their work.
TOP: Chairman of the English department, Mrs. Sue Williams who teaches English IV discusses Shakespeare's Macbeth with
her
class. ABOVE: In a relaxed atmosphere, Miss Lynn Parsons explains her Engligh II class's assignment.