In this class your student will memorize "My Shadow" by Robert Louis Stevenson and "Mr Nobody" by anonymous.  Classes will be lively and engaging with tips and tricks for memorizing the poem, but also these tips and tricks can easily be incorporated into other passages students want to memorize. Reviewing is an important key to memorizing so students will also be given tips and tricks on how to seamlessly incorporate reviewing into their daily schedule.  Students will be given a chance to recite the poem during class and encouraged to recite it outside of class to a friend or family member.  We will spend a brief amount of time talking about the author and the basic meaning of the poem.   

Each poem should roughly take 4 weeks to memorize.  I will provide drawings and hand motions to help students learn through auditory, visual, and kinetic methods.  Students will need to review the poem outside of class to help them retain the memorized portion from week to week.  I will teach them how to do that without needing to alter their daily schedule or add one more thing into their day.  My review method is pretty seamless and can be incorporated into your existing daily schedule.   Classes are lighthearted and fun.  Students will look forward to coming to class each week.  Students will receive only encouragement and support if they get stuck or had an "off week."  The schedule is not too intense so that if a student gets behind, it will be easy to catch up with the rest of the class.  

Week 1 - First 4 lines of My Shadow and learn about Robert Stevenson
Week 2 - Next 4 lines of My Shadow
Week 3 - Next 4 lines of My Shadow
Week 4 - Last 4 lines of My Shadow

Week 5 - I know a funny little man,
    As quiet as a mouse,
Who does the mischief that is done
    In everybody’s house!
There’s no one ever sees his face, 
    And yet we all agree 
That every plate we break was cracked By Mr. Nobody.

Week 6 - ’Tis he who always tears out books,
    Who leaves the door ajar,
He pulls the buttons from our shirts,
    And scatters pins afar;
That squeaking door will always squeak,
    For prithee, don’t you see,
We leave the oiling to be done
    By Mr. Nobody.

Week 7 - He puts damp wood upon the fire
   That kettles cannot boil;
His are the feet that bring in mud,
   And all the carpets soil.
The papers always are mislaid;
   Who had them last, but he?
There’s no one tosses them about
   But Mr. Nobody.

Week 8 - The finger marks upon the door
    By none of us are made;
We never leave the blinds unclosed,
    To let the curtains fade.
The ink we never spill;   the boots
    That lying round you see
Are not our boots,—they all belong
    To Mr. Nobody.