Making Memories 2016-2017 Page 1 of 5 Making Memories 2016-2017 Items must be recited in the order given. However, the item you are reciting can be done in a different month than given for that list. If you are time-pressed by other tasks, call ahead to get an appointment for recitation on Tuesdays or Fridays. Thursday Classes students can also do recitations on Thursday. If you have questions, please contact us. September 2016 The Preamble to the US Constitution We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. October 2016 Presidents #1-#24 1. George Washington 2. John Adams 3. Thomas Jefferson 4. James Madison 5. James Monroe 6. John Quincy Adams 7. Andrew Jackson 8. Martin Van Buren 9. William Henry Harrison 10. John Tyler 11. James K. Polk 12. Zachary Taylor 13. Millard Fillmore 14. Franklin Pierce 15. James Buchanan 16. Abraham Lincoln 17. Andrew Johnson 18. Ulysses S. Grant 19. Rutherford B. Hayes 20. James A. Garfield 21. Chester Arthur 22. Grover Cleveland 23. Benjamin Harrison 24. Grover Cleveland
Making Memories 2016-2017 Page 2 of 5 November 2016 Presidents #25-#44 25. William McKinley 35. John F Kennedy 26. Theodor Roosevelt 36. Lyndon B. Johnson 27. William Howard Taft 37. Richard Nixon 28. Woodrow Wilson 38. Gerald Ford 29. Warren G Harding 39. Jimmy Carter 30. Calvin Coolidge 40. Ronald Reagan 31. Herbert Hoover 41. George Bush 32. Franklin D Roosevelt 42. Bill Clinton 33. Harry S. Truman 43. George W. Bush 34. Dwight D Eisenhower 44. Barack Hussein Obama
Making Memories 2016-2017 Page 3 of 5 December 2016 (can be recited or song) O Holy Night! The stars are brightly shining. It is the night of the dear Savior s birth. Long lay the world in sin and error pining, Till He appeared, and the soul felt its worth. A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn. Fall on your knees! Oh, hear the angel voices! O night divine! O night when Christ was born; O night, divine! O night, O night divine! Led by the light of faith serenely beaming, With glowing hearts by His cradle we stand. O'er the world a star is sweetly gleaming, Now come the wisemen from out of the Orient land. The King of kings lay thus in lowly manger; In all our trials born to be our friend. He knows our need; our weakness is no stranger. Behold your King! Before him lowly bend! Behold your King! Before him lowly bend! Truly He taught us to love one another, His law is love and His gospel is peace. Chains shall He break, for the slave is our brother. And in His name all oppression shall cease. Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we, With all our hearts we praise His holy name. Christ is the Lord! Then ever, ever praise we, His power and glory ever more proclaim! His power and glory ever more proclaim!
Making Memories 2016-2017 Page 4 of 5 January, 2017 The Prepositions List - Go down columns to memorize about above across after against along among around at before behind below beneath beside between by down during except for from in inside into like near of off on onto outside over past since through to toward under underneath until up upon with within without February, 2017 Moh s Hardness Scale & 10 Hardest Minerals Moh s Hardness Scale from 1 to 10, with 1 as softest & 10 as hardest: 1 Talc 2 Gypsum 3 Calcite 4 Fluorite 5 Apatite 6 Orthoclase Feldspar 7 Quartz 8 Topaz 9 Corundum 10 Diamond 17 Commonly Seen Objects With 1 being softest & 10 being hardest on list 10 Diamond 9 Rubies & Sapphires 8.5 Masonry drill bit & Topaz 7.5 Emeralds and sand 6.5 Steel tools 5.5 Glass & knife blades 4.5 iron nail & cast iron skillet 3.5 copper penny & pearl 2.5 fingernail & amber 1.5 graphite in pencils Now you ve won a Silver instead of the Bronze!!! Keep going to get a GOLD. Only 2 more items to memorize and you ll have GOLD!
Making Memories 2016-2017 Page 5 of 5 March, 2017 The Moon By Robert Louis Stevenson The moon has a face like the clock in the hall; She shines on thieves on the garden wall, On streets and fields and harbour quays*, And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees. The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse, The howling dog by the door of the house, The bat that lies in bed at noon, All love to be out by the light of the moon. But all of the things that belong to the day Cuddle to sleep to be out of her way; And flowers and children close their eyes Till up in the morning the sun shall arise. *Please note that quays is pronounced keys April, 2017 Quote from longer speech by Ronald Reagan, October 27, 1964: You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well, I d like to suggest there is not such a thing as a left or right. There s only an up or down: up, man s old, aged dream, the ultimate in individual consistent with law and order; or down, to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.. You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.