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“For most subjects, I used the CC app to review the memory work. “I had a schedule my mom gave me that told me what to review for that day,” she said. Selah said she started training around October, and practiced the memory facts every day. And I can do this with all the subjects.” “Knowing parts of them now will help me dive deeper without having to go back and memorize definitions, dates and events first. “The memory work will help me as I get into the middle and high school levels because we learn more about the topics we memorized,” she said. Selah now knows she can accomplish being a Memory Master again. It kind of feels the same, except people keep saying, ‘Hey! You’re a Memory Master!'” “I feel proud that I got through it all and I was able to accomplish it,” Selah said. In an email, Selah, who is homeschooled, discussed her experience. The Upper Peninsula hosts four Classical Conversations communities, which meet once a week for 24 to 30 weeks, depending upon the program. Material recited includes: a chronological timeline of 161 events and people from history, 120 locations and geographic features, 24 history sentences, 24 science facts, Latin noun endings, English grammar definitions, multiplication tables to the 15s, common squares and cubes, basic geometry formulas, unit conversions and all 46 US presidents. The four-week process includes two memory recitations to parents or other adults, a recitation for the student’s tutor and a spot-check exam by the director of the CC community.Įach oral exam takes between 45 and 90 minutes, depending upon the age of the child and their ability to quickly and accurately recite the information. “Many of our students enjoy the challenge, but only a few are able to complete the entire process successfully.” “The purpose of Memory Master is to encourage and reward demonstrations of excellence in subject memorization and recitation, which are two skills that will serve students well along their educational journey,” said Erica Nelson, Foundations and Essentials director for the Marquette Classical Conversations Community, in a news release. Classical Conversations students from the Marquette CC community who successfully completed the Memory Master testing and earned the title of Memory Master include Selah Haehnel, 11, Charlotte Nelson, 10, both Marquette residents.Įlementary-age students in the homeschool program Classical Conversations may choose to complete an end-of-year oral exam and recite every piece of memory work learned for the year.