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I like to learn about literature but cant keep remembering the work?



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Top 5 in: Choosing College, Discipline, Families and Relationships, Family Activities, Growth and Development, Health and Wellness, Learning Disabilities and Special Needs, Learning Styles, Parents and Schools, Safety, School Policy and Education Issues, Study Skills and Academics, Summer Learning and Camps, Teens and Jobs, Transitions and Readiness, Motivating StudentsTop 5 in 16 Topics		 I'm not sure what you have trouble remembering with literature: plots, which authors wrote which books, time periods for different genres of literature?

Remembering, or memory, is a learned skill. You can't just read a book once and expect to remember all the relevant details. Many people find that using multiple areas of the brain helps them to remember better. With literature, this might involve: creating flash cards with the title of the book on one side and the author on the other; drawing a family tree or web of how the characters are related to one another; creating a time line of actual historical events and then placing the fictional events of the book you are reading within that timeline, etc.

You and some classmates might create a mini-play based on scenes from a book you are studying. Both the acts of creating the play and performing the play will reinforce concepts about the book more solidly in your memory.

You can even try reconstructing the plot line of the book you are studying into a new format. For instance, this link (www.much-ado.net/austenbook/) will take you to a clever summary of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" as if it were being captured on a Facebook news feed.

As you can see, remembering involved exercising your brain to stretch it and keep it limber and come at the material you are trying to learn from many different angles.

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