2. Mnemosyne
The Greek Goddess of memory
• She is pictured here in Rossetti’s painting with the
lamp of memory.
• She represented the rote memorization
required, before the introduction of writing, to
preserve the stories of history and sagas of myth.
• We get the concept of mnemonics.
“Mnemosyne” by Rossetti, Delaware Art Museum
3. Mnemonics
• Everyone knows the usual ones:
• Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally- order of
operations
• HOMES – the Great Lakes
• You can use mnemonics to help you learn in
many classes.
4. Mnemonics
• Biology
SSS
WW
T
A student had to learn the Key Abiotic Factors – the moving physical
and chemical conditions in environment.
He found he could memorize them and recall them quickly when he
grouped them as the letters are in the box above:
Sunlight, Soil, Severe disturbances
Wind, Water
Temperature
5. Mnemonics
• Biology:
RR
• To memorize what produces wind patterns:
• The word “patterns” has 2 t’s
• Think of 2 R’s
• R for rising & falling of air masses
• R for rotation of earth
• Done!
6. Mnemonics
• English Grammar- Linking Verbs:
Feel
Seem Remain
Taste Grow
Appear Stay
Smell Become
Look Turn
Sound
• You don’t have to memorize 12 different words.
• Group them, and you have 4 things to remembers.
7. Mnemonics
• Spanish vocabulary:
• Bailar – to dance (looks like ballet)
• Bajar – to go down (think of Baja California
which is down below the state.
• Contestar – to answer (In a contest, you
give answers)
• Comprar – to buy (Compare prices before
you buy something)
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8. Mnemonics
• English vocabulary:
• Caveat – a warning (think of the warning not to go in a cave!
• Flout – to mock, to treat with contempt (think of rhyming
words- flout & shout at someone to mock them)
• Scourge – to whip, punish severely; a cause of affliction or
suffering (think of rhyming words scourge & courage; how it
would take courage to get whipped or punished)
9. Mnemonics
• Usually the mnemonics that you make are the
ones that will work best for you.
• Sometimes the sillier they are the more likely
they will stick with you.
• Enjoy learning! Make mnemonics!
