Memorizing

On May 9th, we will have have Poetry Cafe (no times are known as this post is being written), and students will stand on Dahlager Theater stage and recite their memorized poems. Students have a copy in their Poetry Notebooks and wrote a second copy to bring home. Students were encouraged to read through the poem and practice every morning and every night. This week, we started our practice in class.

Students sat in chairs, "knee to knee". They each read their poem to their partner. Then they whisper read their poem to themselves. Then they read their poem a second time.

 We will practice in a variety of ways. We have started memorizing ...