Notes 1/18/2012

• Have blogs up and running by this weekend WITH blog entries
• Friday: Class Schedule will be handed out
• however, it is not set in stone except for test dates
• Exam Dates
• Exam #1: February 27th
• Exam #2: April 9th
• Final Exam: May 1st @ 8am
• Orality & Literacy
• Start of Chapter 3 has a list of 9 things that we need to memorize
• Won't focus on later chapter of Yates
• These chapters describe complicated memory systems that are too in-depth for this class
• Giordano Bruno
• Italian that had the most complex memory system in history
• burned at the stake because memory system was too sexual and offending
• Orality & Literacy
• Remember!!
• When push comes to shove, use a cliche
• Think memorable thoughts!!
• This idea will help with remembering things
• Blogs to read
• Nick
• Seth
• Giulio Camillo
• centerfold to Francis Yates' 
• invented a very complicated memory theater
• room within rooms
• decided to build his own theater instead of fill one already built
• also used Globe Theater (Shakespeare's theater) 
• this introduced components/elements of collective memory
• everyone who goes to the Globe theater takes part in the world's collective memory
• Chunking
• vital to memory systems
• Memory Presentations start on February 17th
• will present 100 items that have been memorized to help pass a different classes exam
• 15 items from Ford's book
• also both on 1st exam
• Homer
• page 58 of Orality & Literacy
• discusses how oral stories always use formulas
• Bible: Chapter 49 Genesis
• Jacob created a memory theater for his sons
• all 12 had epithets
• Reuben, Simon, Levi, Judah, Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Joseph, Benjamin
• Epithets
• Megan: Mother of the Muses
• Cassidy: Uterpe
• Tia of the crawling aunts
• Finish Ford by this weekend!