{"id":71522,"date":"2016-05-02T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=71522"},"modified":"2016-05-05T16:53:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T23:53:21","slug":"local-homeschool-students-earn-memory-master-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2016\/05\/02\/local-homeschool-students-earn-memory-master-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Local homeschool students earn \u2018Memory Master\u2019 award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_71523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71523\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71523\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Memory-Master-home-schoolers-2016.jpg\" alt=\"MEMORY MASTERS [Top row:] Kate Priest, Kyra Brown, Caden Sepp, Emily Paquette, Jedidiah Eberhard, Seth Albert. [Bottom row:] Judah Brown , Ansley Priest, Lindsey Paquette, Eva Sepp, Makaela Fogde. (contributed photo)\" width=\"624\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Memory-Master-home-schoolers-2016.jpg 624w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Memory-Master-home-schoolers-2016-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MEMORY MASTERS [Top row:] Kate Priest, Kyra Brown, Caden Sepp, Emily Paquette, Jedidiah Eberhard, Seth Albert. [Bottom row:] Judah Brown , Ansley Priest, Lindsey Paquette, Eva Sepp, Makaela Fogde. (contributed photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LANCASTER &#8211; Eleven students from the Lancaster Classical Conversations homeschool community recently capped months of study by correctly reciting more than 400 facts from a multitude of subjects as part of the national Classical Conversations Memory Master program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The students, who range in age from 6 to 12, earned their Memory Master awards April 29 after each child spent about four hours recalling facts from several subjects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The subjects included:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>History<\/em> &#8211; a chronological timeline of 161 events and people,including all 44 United States presidents;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Geography<\/em> &#8211; identifying on a map 120 locations and geographic features in Africa, Europe, and the Old World; <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Science<\/em> &#8211; the classification of living things and each continent\u2019s highest mountains;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Latin<\/em> &#8211; noun endings and their singular and plural declensions; <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>English<\/em> &#8211; grammar facts, including 53 prepositions, 23 helping verbs, and 12 linking verbs; <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Math<\/em> &#8211; reciting multiplication tables up to the 15\u2019s, common squares and cubes, rudimentary geometry formulas, and unit conversions. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event took place at Valley View Church of the Nazarene, host of the Classical Conversations Lancaster program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Classical Conversations is an educational community of homeschooling families from around the world that utilize a three-part approach to learning known as the trivium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Antelope Valley has campuses in both Lancaster and Palmdale. \u00a0For more information about Classical Conversations and the programs offered locally, email <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/theavtimes.com:2095\/cpsess2742086033\/3rdparty\/squirrelmail\/src\/compose.php?send_to=Nanette_brown30%40hotmail.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nanette_brown30@hotmail.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or visit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicalconversations.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.classicalconversations.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Memory Master is a program that is available to all Classical Conversations participants nationwide. <\/span><\/p>\n<h5><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Information via news release from Classical Conversations Lancaster.]<\/span><\/em><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER &#8211; Eleven students from the Lancaster Classical Conversations homeschool community recently capped months of study by correctly reciting more than 400 facts from a multitude of subjects as part of the national Classical Conversations Memory Master program.\u00a0 The students, who range in age from 6 to 12, earned their Memory Master awards April 29 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}