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Students receiving the Memory Master award are Abbey Coch (from left), Grant Payne, Allison NeSmith, Brandon Warren and Madison Payne.

THOMASVILLE — Five students from the Classical Conversations of Thomasville home-school community recently capped months of study by correctly reciting more than 400 facts from a multitude of subjects as part of the national Classical Conversations Memory Master program.

The students, ranging in age from nine to 11, received the Memory Master award.

To earn the award, each child spent about four total hours recalling facts from history, geography, English, Latin, math and science, as well as a chronological history timeline.

Included within the material memorized by students was a chronological timeline of 161 events and people, 120 locations and geographic features in Africa, Europe and the Old World, science facts including the classification of living things and each continent’s highest mountains, five Latin noun endings and their singular and plural declensions, English grammar facts including 53 prepositions, 23 helping verbs and 12 linking verbs, multiplication tables to the 15s, common squares and cubes, basic geometry formulas, and unit conversions, and all 44 U.S. presidents.

Memory Master is a program available to all Classical Conversations participants nationwide. Classical Conversations is an educational community providing academic programs, events and services to home-school families uses the Classical education model.

Classical education is based on a three-part approach to learning known as the trivium. The component of classical education for elementary age students is known as the grammar stage, which emphasizes acquisition of knowledge.

The Classical Conversations of Thomasville campus also hosts a middle and high school program for home-schoolers.

To learn more about Classical Conversations, contact Jenny Connell at jennygconnell@gmail.com or visit www.classicalconversations.com.