Madeleine
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We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare...do hereby ordain...this Constitution for the United States of America.Ah yes, Robert Service. Isn't it too bad that kids don't get to memorize poetry anymore.Robert Service was another poet I learned all on my own..
We also memorized the Gettysburg Address and the Preamble to the Constitution in school. GA stuck, but the Preamble didn't
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Dang, that's as far as I can get. And that's a short one.
My kids memorized stuff because we had fun doing it together. We would do like a call and response, so someone would start the poem and then you chipped in the next line and back and forth.