Reading/Review for Friday, 1/31: Mnemonic Devices

Review the mnemonic device websites below. We will start to look at them today for inspiration, if we have time. For Friday, brainstorm your own mnemonic device and have a genuinely considerate idea about your Essay 1 topic by the start of next class. 

• Do you want a rhyming mnemonic device? Like a little poem?
• Do you want to use an acronym?
• Do you want to use a visual aide (if so, your essay would rely on your ability to describe the visuals--perhaps after you've drawn them). 

• What will your device be good for remembering? (Class material, life lesson, proverb, job material, etc.?) Why and were do you think this knowledge can be used?

Dear Reader:

Besides PRE being a mnemonic device for us to use, here are a couple of other places on the web to help out your thinking on how to approach Essay 1:

1. I like the Alot a lot! 

• "alot" is not correct. There has to be a space between "a" and "lot." This web piece shows how the common error actually has the creator imagine a creature called the alot.
• Here is one that uses cartoons to teach people why "alot" is wrong. For artists, this may inspire your writing...can you describe a cartoon?

2. Flocabulary.com

• If you are in any way musically driven like me, this website does a great job of making us think about how sound plays a big role in memory, in mnemonic devices. 

• There are many examples of both rhyming and non-rhyming mnemonic devices.

Good luck shaping your own memory device!

Sincerely,

Roy G. Biv