What did teachers make you memorize and recite for a grade?

[pronker]

At the beginning of fifth grade, we were told several milestones to prepare for. In mid-grade and spread out a few students daily over about two weeks, each student had to recite in front of the class several mandatory pieces (Trees by Joyce Kilmer, the preamble to the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address) and one we could choose (I picked Abou Ben Adhem.)

What things did others have to memorize?