Essential Questions

1. What is the nature of poetry that makes it an effective medium for conveying meaning?
   
2. What can I learn about structuring my writing of poetry from studying mentor texts?
   
3. How do the comprehension strategies help me respond critically and analytically to poetry?
   
4. How can I show myself and commemorate what is personally significant through my poetic writing?
   
5. How can poetry be structured to make my writing to "connect us with other people at the most essential level - heart and mind to heart and mind" (Atwell, 2007)?
   
6. How can poetry help me to name the world for ourselves: figure out what matters, explore it, try to make sense of it, endeavour to change, and to help me live a life of worth?
   
7. How can I explore poetry with the lens of discovering and uncovering the world – its history, culture, artifacts, and ecology, as well as our identities and relationships?z
   
8. How can I connect with a poet’s work in order to notice, reveal, understand, and appreciate my own experiences?