Remembrance day is around the corner, and to commemorate the

sacrifices of our Armed Forces, our class is participating in Royal Canadian

Legion’s annual literacy contest!

Your task is to exercise your creativity and write a poem on the theme of
Remembrance Day. You will print out two copies of your poem for your teacher
– one to be marked and handed back to you, and the other copy will be
submitted (by the teacher) to the Royal Canadian Legion contest. DUE DATE:
Monday, November 11th, 2019. Marks will be deducted for late submissions, and
they will not be submitted to the contest. The mark you will receive from your
teacher will be graded based on the attached rubric. As for the contest, your
poems will all be judged at the local Legion Branch, and then at the Provincial
level. The Provincial winners will then be submitted to Ottawa for judging at the
National levels.

Rules From The Contest’s Website:

1. Candidates will submit a poem of not more than 32 lines.

2. Entries will be marked on the basis of originality of thought, expression,
presentation, grammar, spelling and Canadian content.
3. Candidates will only use one side of the page
4. Entries must not exceed the word or line limit
Category Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1
Knowledge/Underst - Poetic - Poetic - Poetic - Poetic
anding elements are elements are elements are elements are
creative and included in the included and difficult to
- Student has a clear enhance the poem somewhat understand or
understanding on story in the - Figurative confusing to not appropriate
how to enhance the poem language is easy understand for the poem
poem with poetic - Figurative to understand - Figurative - Figurative
elements language is easy language is language is
to understand somewhat unclear
/10 and enhances unclear
the poem
Application - Theme of the - Theme of - Theme is - Theme is
poem is clear poem us clear somewhat unclear or
- The content of the and creative - Topic is clear difficult to inappropriate for
poem reflected the - Topic is clear, - All details add understand poem
theme of demonstrates and support the - Topic is - Topic is
Remembrance Day strong story of the somewhat unclear, student
with respect to understanding, poem unclear or does not follow
Canadian content and author does not directions
appropriately care about the - Most details do
reflects not support
topic
Remembrance topic
/15 Day - Some details
- Details add to the
significantly add story of the
to the story of poem
the poem
Communication - Strong word - No more than - Some word - Many word
choice with no 2 word choice, choice, spelling, choice, spelling,
- The word choices spelling, spelling, punctuation, and punctuation, and
used in the poem are punctuation, or punctuation, or grammatical grammatical
used effectively grammatical grammatical errors errors
errors errors - Some written - Written
- Written - Most written phrases and phrases and
phrases and phrases and sentences are sentences lack
sentences are sentences are clear and clarity or
clear and clear and coherent coherence
/10 coherent coherent
Thinking - The tone of the - The tone of the - The tone of the - The tone of the
poem is clearly poem is clearly poem is poem is unclear
- The tone of the and creatively expressed somewhat
poem clearly expressed unclear
expressed
/5

Total: ____________
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