I am teaching the Gettysburg Address today and thinking what a cool speech it was. Pretty damn effective as well. In looking at sites and getting some ideas, I discovered a lot of people that had memorized it. That seemed so old fashioned. I'm wondering if anyone here was made to memorize that or any speech?

 

BTW, I annoyed my math teacher when I had our students give math answers in terms of score.

I'd heard of people who had to memorize it, but we merely studied it. I did have to memorize Marc Antony's speech from The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.

7 score and 10 years ago...

4 score and 7 years ago?

 

Ive never been forced to memorize, but Ive heard it enough that I can do a few lines.

Edited November 19, 201312 yr by Soxbadger

Critic remembers it like it was yesterday.

7 score and 10 years ago...

 

 

4 score and 7 years ago?

 

Ive never been forced to memorize, but Ive heard it enough that I can do a few lines.

 

7 score and 10 years ago is 150 years ago...

I'd heard of people who had to memorize it, but we merely studied it. I did have to memorize Marc Antony's speech from The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.

 

I had to memorize the "To be or not to be" soliloquy by Hamlet.

 

 

I still think it's crazy that the guy before him spoke for TWO hours and he only spoke for two minutes.

I still think it's crazy that the guy before him spoke for TWO hours and he only spoke for two minutes.

 

Especially because the long speech was the tradition of the day.

Especially because the long speech was the tradition of the day.

And he also had a reputation for giving long speeches.