whats an easy was to memorize the Gettysburd Adress?

Question

please help i need the extra credit for my class and i have to memorize it

Answer 1

first off, it's GETTYSBURG... no D!!!! do a google search and type it in spelled correctly and you may get a number of hits!!! give it a shot!

Answer 2

I just memorized the names themselves. Since mom never bough pizza and I have never jumped underwater... I found that I can memorize sounds, so I just rattled off the names out loud (a long time ago) until my brain got used to the sounds. Now, just saying "Mercury" triggers the rest of the list. For many people, it is easier to remember the lyrics from a song, rather than memorize the words of a poem (even if they both have the same number of words): the sound (e.g., music) helps the brain organize the data. For others, this trick does not work. That is why they use "mnemonics" (the examples above are menmonic devices). "Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me" used to be the favored menmonic to remember the spectral classes of stars by order of decreasing surface temperature. It is now considered sexist.

Answer 3

The way I did this was I memorized one sentence at a time. By that I mean I learned the memorized the first one, when I was sure I had that one I added another, saying them together. Before I knew it I had the whole thing memorized.

Best of luck.

Answer 4

get a tape recorder or record it on your computer, recite it very clearly and put it on when you go to sleep. if you can't fall asleep with it on have someone put it on when you go into a deep sleep. your brain will subconsciously memorize it.

and/or memorize it one line at a time. memorize the first then the 2nd then put the 2 together, then the 3rd and put the 3 together. repetition is one of the easiest ways to memorize something. Good Luck!

Answer 5

Practice. practice. practice.


Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Answer 6

Tell you teacher that "Even Abe Lincoln didn't memorize it" Enough said.

Answer 7

it just takes time. just learn it a few sentences at a time and say it aloud dozens of times. then the next day add a few more sentences. keep saying it aloud. do it again and again and you'll be quoting it like you've known it your whole life. the biggest thing is just repeating it over and over and saying it aloud.

Answer 8

record it into a tape recorder of some sort, and just keep saying it live with yourself on Tape.

Answer 9

Four score and seven years... there isn't an easy way!

Answer 10

try putting it into your own song. music makes things easier to remember.