| Learning the Amendments to the United
States Constitution can be easy when you relate the amendment number
to a number in what that amendment represents. Here are some examples:
The Third Amendment. Short title: No Housing
Troops. This is amendment number 3 and there are 3 words in
the short title. The amendment, paraphrased of course, says that we
are not required to house our military troops during peace time, but
we may choose to do so. (War time is a different matter during which
we may not have a choice.) The amendment was originally drafted in
reference to the British Quartering Act.
The Twenty-Second Amendment. Short title:
Limits the President to 2 Terms in Office. There are two
two's -- one is spelled out as "to" and it is followed by the
numerical digit "2."
Mnemonics Created by Students
What better way to help students remember something than to engage
them in creating their very own memory aid! Words, phrases, acronyms
and mnemonics help make that historical character's name, a date, event,
title, a math formula or parts of speech theirs. By the time they
create the memoric, they own what they started out to learn. Just keep
in mind that some students create mnemonics they don't wish to
share. That's OK. |
Teaching the chronological order of
United States presidents can be a daunting task for teachers and feel
overwhelming to the students. Stan Cody simplifies the job by making
sentences of the presidents' last names. Here's part of his
presidential parade, as published in his book,
Teaching Out of the
Box. When Adams Jogged, Marilyn Monroe Asked Jackie Van-Buren
How to Preserve This For Posterity.
The presidents' names represented by the above sentence are:
- Washington
- Adams
- Jefferson
- Madison
- Monroe
- Adams
- Jackson
- Van Buren
- Harrison
- Tyler
- Polk
- Taylor
- Fillmore
- Pierce
Help! Mr. Cody Needs a Mnemonic!
Stan Cody is seeking a mnemonic, rhyme or acronym to help
students easily remember what the 26th amendment of the U.S.
Constitution represents.
Send him your idea. |
