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CHAPTER 18
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What's my message about the First Amendment?
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Let’s begin this chapter with a lesson about the First Amendment: Rabid skunks prefer green apples. Huh? What do rabid skunks and green apples have to do with the Constitution? Besides, isn’t this a study skills book? You’ll find the answer in this chapter! The best way to learn something is to develop a comprehensive understanding of it. Once you understand something, it’s much easier to remember details about it. But sometimes learning requires plain old memorization, especially in the case of lists of things, orders of steps, or stages of a process. A mnemonic device is a technique that consolidates a lot of information into a kind of code that stimulates recall of the information. There are many types of mnemonic devices and they can be used for any subject. A mnemonic can take some effort to create, but once you’ve made it and memorized it, you have a nearly foolproof and long term means of recalling the information, such as the information above about the First Amendment. Knowing how to make and use a mnemonic is a good study skill for high school, college and career readiness.
Learning Goals By the end of this chapter you will be able to: 1. Explain the purpose of a mnemonic device. 2. Describe five mnemonic devices to help students recall learned information. 3. Create mnemonic representations using a variety of devices, including acronym, acrostic, name/trait, spelling and rhyme/song.
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