How do you remmeber all the presidents in order?
The method my kids have used is a book (by Scholastic, I think) called *Yo, Millard Filmore!* it has a whole series of silly devices for remembering each President in a continuous string, and with a few fun pieces of trivia thrown in. (Actually, I think it will help you to learn the individuals better if you have at least a short blurb, perhaps a key fact or two for each, not just names.) There are plenty of other tricks –and you may combine them– but it also pays to stop and pay special attention to particular ones at various intervals and then “fill in” around them. I do disagree with the suggestion that you needn’t worry about it. The point for me is not to master some party-trick recitation, but to learn actual history. And knowing facts, events and people!and how they all fit together is a rather key part of that. In other words, you learn the people, etc. in order to learn the larger STORY. Another thing or two to keep in mind, to help yourself learn not just the list, but actu
