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If this were a sporting event, then everyone would recognize and honor the winners, just as we do in the Olympics, the World Series, and the Super Bowl.  We will also honor the winners (top scorers) with awards.  At the end of the class we will also give awards to the most improved students.  This friendly competition is intended to bring out the best in everyone, and motivate them to do better than they might otherwise.   

If this were a sporting event, then everyone would recognize and honor the winners, just as we do in the Olympics, the World Series, and the Super Bowl.  We will also honor the winners (top scorers) with awards.  At the end of the class we will also give awards to the most improved students.  This friendly competition is intended to bring out the best in everyone, and motivate them to do better than they might otherwise.   

If you think it is impossible to know every event in the list at the end of this lecture, you will see from the top scorers that it is possible and that some students did it.  Know that beforehand: while you're wasting time watching television or driving in the car with nothing to do, a more motivated student will be using that time better by memorizing or testing himself on key events from the list below.  As Thomas Edison said, "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits," and we will give awards to our students who hustle.

If you think it is impossible to know every event in the list at the end of this lecture, we will likely see top scorers on next week's exam who are able to learn nearly every event.  A student "who hustles while he waits," as Edison said, can find a ton of extra time for preparing that he did not realize existed before.

Recall how the homeschoolers Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Edison approached the challenges in their life.  They saw challenge as opportunity, and gave it their best shot.  They knew that success in life is due almost entirely to "perspiration" (work) rather than inborn traits like IQ.  Lincoln and Edison would give this exam their best shot, and so can you.  Be one of the students who wins an award for scoring among the highest in the class.

Recall how the homeschoolers Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Edison approached the challenges in their life.  They saw challenge as opportunity, and gave it their best shot.  They knew that success in life is due almost entirely to "perspiration" (work) rather than inborn traits like IQ.  Lincoln and Edison would give this exam their best shot, and so can you.  Be one of the students who wins an award for scoring among the highest in the class.

As in baseball and in sales in business, simply try to improve your percentages with these terms.  If you know only 10%, try to improve that to 40%.  If you know 50%, then try to improve that to 75%.  If you know 70%, then strive for 90%.  Just as a batter in baseball should not be discourage by failing 2 out of 3 times to bat, you should not be discouraged by low initial percentages on this key term list.  Simply try to improve your percentages.  With effort, you'll amaze yourself at how much better you can become.  Your classmates will be working hard on this, and do not let them pass you up!

As in baseball and in sales in business, simply try to improve your percentages with these terms.  If you know only 10%, try to improve that to 40%.  If you know 50%, then try to improve that to 75%.  If you know 70%, then strive for 90%.  Just as a batter in baseball should not be discourage by failing 2 out of 3 times to bat, you should not be discouraged by low initial percentages on this key term list.  Simply try to improve your percentages.  With effort, you'll amaze yourself at how much better you can become.  Your classmates will be working hard on this, and do not let them pass you up!

One approach to improving your knowledge of these key terms is simply to write out short descriptions of each one.  There are only 321 terms.  If you took 5 minutes for each one that you did not know, then it would take you only 1 hour for every 12 that did not know.  In one day you could cover over one third of these terms, and you would not like forget them for a long, long time.  Writing out the meaning of something in one's own words has the effect of really burning it into one's memory!

One approach to improving your knowledge of these key terms is simply to type or write out short descriptions of each one.  There are only 321 terms.  If you took 2 minutes for each one that you did not know, then it would take you only 1 hour to complete 30 that you did not know.  In one day you could cover nearly the entire list, and you would not like forget them for a long, long time.  Typing or writing out the meaning of something in one's own words has the effect of really burning it into one's memory!  I still recall lines from Shakespeare that I wrote out by hand when I was in the eighth grade!

Our first through sixth lectures should have covered all these terms, except they did miss the Newburgh Address (or Conspiracy).  That was a plot among officers of the Continental Army (the Patriots fighting for the Americans in the Revolutionary War) to hold a military coup and establish martial law in order to obtain back pay that was owed to them for their military service.  The plot came to a climax when they angrily met on March 15, 1783, and were surprised by an unexpected appearance by General George Washington.  He gave a short speech, but the officers were still still angry, and lacking in the respect that they usually gave to their esteemed leader.  Washington then pulled a letter from his pocket from a member of Second Continental Congress.  But Washington was unable to read the letter without his reading glasses, and in a miraculous moment of sincere emotion, declared, "Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country."  Many of the officers were suddenly moved to tears in the realization that Washington, like themselves, had sacrificed much for the country.  The officers left satisfied.

Our first through sixth lectures should have covered all of of the following terms, except the lectures did miss the Newburgh Address (or Conspiracy).  That was a plot among officers of the Continental Army (the Patriots fighting for the Americans in the Revolutionary War) to hold a military coup and establish martial law in order to obtain back pay that was owed to them for their military service.  The plot came to a climax when they angrily met on March 15, 1783, and were surprised by an unexpected appearance by General George Washington.  He gave a short speech, but the officers were still still angry, and lacking in the respect that they usually gave to their esteemed leader.  Washington then pulled a letter from his pocket from a member of Second Continental Congress.  But Washington was unable to read the letter without his reading glasses, and in a miraculous moment of sincere emotion, declared, "Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country."  Many of the officers were suddenly moved to tears in the realization that Washington, like themselves, had sacrificed much for the country.  The officers left satisfied.

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