ISBN:0-9780938-4-4. 100% Curriculum Based. 48 pdf pages. Teach your students poetry by utilizing other students poems. All of the poems used in this unit were written by grade 10 students across Canada.

General Outcomes:
1. Explore Thoughts, Ideas, Feelings and Experiences
2. Comprehend and Respond Personally and Critically to Oral, Literary and Media Text
3. Manage Ideas and Information
4. Enhance The Clarity and Artistry of Communication
5. Celebrate and Build Community

Unit Outline:
� Defining Poetry and Literary Terms
� Developing Language Through Our Senses
� Quatrain
� Active Listening, Critiquing and Eunoia Poems
� Responsible Responses and Acrostic
� Haiku and Tanka
� Descriptive Words and Cinquain
� Rhyming Poems
� Couplets
� List/Catalog Poem
� Free Verse
� Sonnet
� Canadian Poets
� Unit Completion