Ah... the timeless classic! Despite our familiarity with them, having written hiaku since second grade, this form remains a challenging one for students to get "just right."
In Japan, haiku are valued for their lightness, simplicity, openness, and depth. These are some basic rules of Haiku:
1. use no more than 17 syllables,Easy, right? Not really! Adding a twsit on the common haiku, students need to compose not just a single poem, or two unrelated poems, but rather two haikus realted by their contratry nature.
arranged in lines of 5-7-5 syllables
2. link the words to the natural word, while a attempting to retain Japanese values of lightness, simplicity, openness, and depth
3. focus on a memorable detail of the Haiku's topic
Here are some general instructions:
1. Select two topics that are seen as opposites .Read Up and Write On!
2. Brainstorm five favorite details about each topic.
3. Choose your best detail about one topic, then create a seventeen-syllable "snapshot" of that topic, capturing the detail in a seventeen syllable poem.
4. Repeat the process for the second topic.
5. Place the poems side-by-side in your writer's notebook.
5 comments:
"Ah... the timeless classic! Despite our familiairty with them, having wirtten hiakus since sencd grade, this form remains a challenging one for studenst to get.."
Wow Mr. Scott, four errors in one paragraph, and you call yourself an ELA teacher. :-o
i don't know if i should get my resume ready because i'm a bad teacher or have pride in the fact that i've taught you to identify bad typing! ;)
thanks for hipping me to this bad scene!
What is that supposed to be a picture of, Scotty??
-Jonathan Girdle
whose jonathin girdle????
I happen to be one of the most amazing hotdogs that's ever walked the planet.
And ALLS i was saying was was what mr.scotts icon is a pic of.
I dont even go to your school.
i live in an oven.
SO THERE
-Jonnyyyy
Ps- That website is my picture.
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