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Memory Helps for Essential Tutors

Mrs. Leigh Bortins of Classical Conversations stands in front of the camera and hammers the 112 Different Types of Sentence Classifications. The most poignant moment on the screen is when she used the illustration of a hitter standing at the plate and never veers away from the basic stance but does learn to use different sizes of bats or maybe swings the bat differently to move the ball around the field.

Check it out! Leigh standing left hip to the pitcher’s mound—just like Albert Puljois or Prince Fielder—and she motions with her left arm, bat-free, and she’s nailed the motion. Do you know why she nails the motion? She’s raised a bunch of snotty-nosed boys. Obviously, she’s watched her boys play ball. She motions with the left hand. Gentle moves, along with the shoulder-level sways, and she’s moving her hand and arm in one sweeping motion towards the pitcher.

Leigh hits homeruns in illustrations for children and parents, illustrations that show how students should vary their memory techniques, vary their order in memorizing the grammar of the 112 Classifications. She wants her listeners to vary things to bust out loose with solid mastery of it all. Great tips for tutors for those teaching Essentials of the English Language.


Great video, Leigh. I’m hooked on onehundredtwelveonics.


G. Mark Sumpter