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Daisy graduated from Edith Bowen Lab School last spring. I think she's the only one of our kids that attended the same elementary school from kindergarten through 5th grade. As a culminating activity, her class performed "A Mid-Summer Night's Dream" by Shakespeare. Most students were assigned 2 parts and the play was given twice so that more could participate. She was assigned as one of the three narrators in the first cast and as a minor role in the second. She not only memorized all of her lines but also the entire play! That came in handy when one student with a substantial role had to leave before the final performance and Daisy was able to easily step in. She also was one of only a couple of students to memorize a long list of famous passages including the Gettysburg Address, part of the "I Have a Dream" speech, and about 6-7 others.