Memory Work Index

Catchy title, eh? Not really, I know. I have to admit, this post is mostly self-serving. It’s the index page to our memory work binder that I never got around to making. So I thought, ‘hey, I’ll make a post on the blog that I can add each term’s selections to as we go.’ Surprisingly, even though we call it “memory” work, I have a hard time remembering what poems and verses we’ve already done when I sit down to plan each term. I have also been known to scour other homeschool blogs for ideas. So maybe this list will serve to inspire someone else along the way too.

Scripture

• Genesis 1:1
• Joshua 1:5-9
• Psalm 1
• Psalm 4
• Psalm 5
• Psalm 8
• Psalm 16
• Psalm 37:1-9 (from the Trinity Psalter)
• Psalm 100 (in Hebrew and English)
• Psalm 116 (from The Book of Psalms for Singing)
• Psalm 119:11
• Psalm 119:105
• Psalm 121
• Psalm 122
• Psalm 133 (in Hebrew and English)
• Psalm 134 (in Hebrew and English)
• Psalm 139
• Psalm 150
• Proverbs 1:7
• Proverbs 15:1
• Deuteronomy 6:4-6
• Isaiah 9:6 (in Hebrew and English)
• Isaiah 40:25-31
• Isaiah 55:6-11
• Jeremiah 29:11
• Jonah 2:1-10
• Matthew 5:3-11 (The Beatitudes)
• Matthew 11:28-30 (in French and English)
• Matthew 21:28-32 (parable of the two sons)
• Mark 4:26-29
• Luke 2:25-35 (Simeon sees God’s salvation)
• Luke 5:1-7 (parable of the lost sheep)
• Luke 6:46-49 (parable of the wise and foolish builders)
• John 1:1-12
• John 3:16
• John 15:1-8
• I Corinthians 13
• II Corinthians 12:9-10
• Ephesians 2:1-10
• Ephesians 3:14-21
• Philippians 2:5-11
• I Timothy 1:15-17
• II Timothy 3:1-5, 10-17

Poems

• “The Land of Nod” by Robert Louis Stevenson
• “The Swing” by Robert Louis Stevenson
• “Swallows Travel To and Fro” by Robert Louis Stevenson
• “A Child’s Prayer” by Margaret Betham-Edwards
• “Who Has Seen the Wind” by Christina Rosetti
• “Clouds” by Christina Rosetti
• “The Lamb” by William Blake
• “Wishing” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud” by William Wordsworth
• “Crossing the Bar” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• “Now We Are Six” by A. A. Milne
• “Some One” by Walter de la Mare
• “The First Bluebird” by James Whitcomb Riley
• “Children” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• “Two Little Eyes” (to look to God) by C. C. Kerr
• “The Poet and his Song” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
• “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
• “A Christmas Carol” by G. K. Chesterton
• “Little Things” by Julia Carney
• “The Thousandth Man” by Rudyard Kipling
• “Dreams” by Langston Hughes
• “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind” by John Greenleaf Whittier
• “The Coin” by Sara Teasdale
• “Love of Country” (from The Lay of the Last Minstrel) by Sir Walter Scott
• “A Hymn on the Nativity of My Saviour” by Ben Jonson
• “Primer Lesson” by Carl Sandburg
• “To Seneca Lake” by J. G. Percival
• “O Grant…” by John Keats
• “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” by Thomas Gray (selected portions)
• “My Bed is a Boat” by Robert Louis Stevenson
• “Annunciation” by John Donne
• “A Christmas Carol” by Robert Herrick (selected portion)
• “I Never Saw a Moor” by Emily Dickinson
• “A Book” by Emily Dickinson
• “Solitude” by A. A. Milne
• “On His Blindness” by John Milton
• “To My Valentine”
• “Pippa’s Song” by Robert Browning
• “Disturb Us Lord” by Francis Drake
• “The Mist and All” by Dixie Willson
• “The Pilgrim” by John Bunyan
• “The Castle-Builder” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• “What are Heavy” by Christina Rossetti
• “Requirement” by John Greenleaf Whittier
• “The Tyger” by William Blake
• “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost

Shakespeare

• “St. Crispin Day Speech” (from Henry V)
• “The quality of mercy is not strained…” (from The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene I)
• “I left no ring with her…” (from Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 2, lines 17-41)
• “Song of the Holly” (from As You Like It)
• “Song of the Witches” (from MacBeth)
• “I know a bank where the wild thyme blows…” (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
• “O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face…” (from Romeo and Juliet, Act III Scene 2)
• “Friends, Romans, countrymen…” (speech from Julius Caesar)
• “I’ll attend here here, and woo her with some spirit…” (from The Taming of the Shrew, Act 2, Scene 1)

Prayers

• The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 9:6-13)
• “Be Present At Our Table, Lord” by John Cennick
• Doxology
• Lord God, almighty and everlasting Father, you have brought us in safety… (from The Book of Common Prayer)
• “God Be in My Head” (from Book of Hours)