The act of memorization serves the students skills of reading lines carefully and making judgments about how particular passages can be interpreted and therefore evaluated. Students do not have to clear the choice with me, but the selection must be a work from our text. Students must also delegate a classmate to have in front of him or her the poem to be recited. If the speaker forgets a line, the classmate will then provide the missing information so the speaker can continue.
Students can expect to participate in the evaluation of their peers' performances.