Haiku%20Poems

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Haiku Poems

• Learning Objectives
• Understand, interpret and discuss how language
  is compressed to produce a dramatic effect in
  film or drama, and to create layers of meaning in
  poetry, for example haiku, tankas, couplets, free
  verse and verse novels (ACELT1623)

• Outcomes
• To understand the structure of a Haiku.
• To create a Haiku using the correct syllable
  pattern.
• To create a Haiku using the correct structure to
  create impact.

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Haiku

• A haiku is a form of Japanese poetry that has
  only three short lines.
• It has a fixed form.
• Usually the first line has five syllables, the
  second has seven and the third has five again.
• There are usually two ideas or images that
  connect.
• The poems are normally about nature.

Tea leaf in my cup Did you read your own
future, growing in China?
5 7 5
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Haiku poems
As the wind does blow         Across the trees, I
see the             Buds blooming in May     
Falling to the ground,         I watch a leaf
settle down In a bed of brown.
I walk across sand And find myself blistering In
the hot, hot heat
Its coldand I wait For someone to shelter
me And take me from here.
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Write your own haiku poem

• Read the words below in order to create your own
  haiku poem on one of the seasons.
• Summer sun, hot, twilight, ladybirds, scorching
  sun, ice cream, beaches, sand, warmth, blue sky
• Autumn falling leaves, red, gold, brown, rain,
  starry nights, wind, crackling leaves
• Winter snow, snowflakes, cold, dark, long
  nights, icicles, gloomy, fires, ice skating
• Spring flowers, green, grass, blossom, sunrise,
  sky, spring rain, birth, nature, new life,
  babies, growth.

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• Using one of the images below, draft your own
  Haiku remember the structure!

Water
Fire
Earth
Wind
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Haiku writing

• Now write a haiku poem on the nature topic of
  your choice.
• As a class brainstorm a list of topics about
  nature that you could write about.
• It may help you to brainstorm some ideas on your
  topic before trying to get the syllable structure
  correct.

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Haiku revision

• Where do Haiku poems originate from?
• What are Haiku poems usually about?
• What is the structure of a Haiku?

Japan
Nature animals, plants, weather, etc
First line 5 syllables Second line 7
syllables Third line 5 syllables
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Peer Assess
Share your Haiku poems with a partner. Check the
syllable pattern. Comment on ? What was done
well? ? What could be improved?

• Outcomes
• To understand the structure of a Haiku.
• To create a Haiku using the correct syllable
  pattern.
• To create a Haiku using the correct structure to
  create impact.

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Couplets

• The easiest of the verse forms.
• Any topic you choose
• Two lines, with the last words of each rhyming
  with each other.
• Multiple couplets may be combined on one topic to
  make one poem

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Examples of couplets

• Grandmother sits in her old rocking chair.
• She rocks and she rocks all day there.
• Ideas with nowhere to hide An eureka moment
  inside
• Nature puts on little shows Every time it rains
  or snows.

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Your turn

• Use the topic of your choice to write a poem
  consisting of at least 3 couplets (6 lines total)
• It may help to think of rhyming word pairs and
  then create the sentences about the topic around
  the rhyme, rather than figuring out the rhyme at
  the end