Our Memory Master

As I posted several days ago, Ann Ferris recently achieved recognition as a "Memory Master" at Classical Conversations. To be a Memory Master, you must memorize a ridiculous amount of material, and be examined orally for 30 minutes without missing anything-not even one question, number or even a word in definitions (or in the entire chapter of Ephesians 6 in the King James- look it up and give it a try!). Anyway, here are some of the things she memorized.

• Ephesians 6 in the KJV
  
• Reproduce the entire geography of Europe and the Middle East (countries, lakes, mountain ranges, rivers, etc.) on a blank map.
  
• All multiplication tables through the 15s
• All squares through the 15s
• All cubes through the 15s
• Math law definitions (associative, commutative, etc.)
• Science law definitions and facts (motion, thermodynamics, planets, biomes, etc.)
• Dozens of world history questions and dates from middle ages to present (for example, Charlemagne, Feudalism, the Crusades, the 100 years war, much of English history, the Reformation and reformers, the American revolution, Napoleon and the French Revolution, the Civil War, WWI and WWII, Vietnam, the Cold War, the fall of communism, etc., etc.)
• She had to know an in-depth time-line from Creation to the present. Listening to her recite this is amazing. Absolutely stunning. What is more, she had to be able to begin the time-line at any point in human history and continue from that point forward.
• She had to conjugate a Latin verb in six tenses (ex: present, perfect, pluperfect, etc.).
  
• She also had to provide a litany of exact grammar tables and definitions (examples include gerunds, appositives, demonstrative pronouns, and many, many more).

The entire Caston crew is very excited about her accomplishment and thankful to God for his enabling grace in this endeavor.

The "celebration cake" for the Memory Masters!