This unit is a great way to teach the Common Core Literature Standards for Poetry. Through reading these poems with your class you can teach rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, stanzas and lines, repetition, verse, meter, figurative language, and rhyme scheme.This unit is so fun for students! It is a great activity to get both the boys and girls interested in poetry. This activity is reading poems in a tournament style. I chose 16 of my favorite Shel Silverstein poems. Each day I passed out two poems t