Want your students to have fun and work independently at the end of the year without sacrificing rigor?After a full year of analyzing literature from different times, it’s great to wrap it all up with a unit on poets who are writing about the world we live in today. Students often believe that literature is something that exists for another time and another place, but with these pieces, they’ll learn how relevant poetry is to their own lives. All of these poems are by respected, well-known poets