ISBN:0-9780938-3-6. 100% Curriculum Based. 58 pdf pages. Teach your students poetry by utilizing other students poems. All of the poems used in this unit were written by grade 9 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
� Shape Poems
� Active Listening, Critiquing and Grammar Poems
� Descriptive Words and Descriptive Poems
� Quatrain
� Responsible Responses, Acrostic and Alphabet Poems
� Diamante
� Imagist
� Rhyming and Couplet Poems
� I wish/ If I
� Free Verse
� Canadian Poets
� Unit Completion