Hamlet Memorization

In AP Literature, we have to memorize a speech for Hamlet that is at least 25 lines. I thought I was going to do "O, my offence is rank," spoken by King Claudius, but as I was reading Act IV last night I was drawn to another speech. I decided to change the speech that I was going to memorize to "How all occassions do inform against me," spoken by Hamlet himself. In class today, Mr. Burge had us do one of his tricks to help us memorize it faster- writing the first letter of each word on a notecard. This helps me memorize the speech rather fast. This is the third time in my high school career that I have had him as my teacher which means this is the third time that I have had to memorize a Shakepseare speech. First Romeo and Juliet, then The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and now Hamlet. I think that since I have memorized speeches for his class, that this should be a breeze. In class he wanted us to be able to recite five lines with the help of our cheat notecard, but I was able to memorize ten lines instead. Talk about impressive right? Just kidding. There's kids in the class that have memorized more than I have. Some have already memorized their whole speech!!! I feel that I have been slacking on that assignment due tot he over achievers in the class. Oh well, I'm going to try and have the whole speech memorized by Friday. Wish me luck!